The Kings have announced that Slava Voynov has been assigned to Manchester of the American Hockey League in the (very likely) event of a lockout. Voynov played 54 regular-season games for the Kings last season (plus the entire playoffs) but was eligible to be assigned to the AHL without having to pass through waivers. Voynov is the last of the Kings who could be assigned to the AHL without first having to clear waivers.
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DavidR Reply:
September 16th, 2012 at 4:16 pm
@Jack, WTF!!!!! Can somebody explain to me the way the refund stuff is going to work? I got a very confusing email about my two options, if anyone else got that email and understands it, can they explain the terms. I think option #2 is a straight refund for any games not played with some deal that you will lose your seats for playoffs, while option 1 – I dont know what is going on with that, im receiving interest? but not a refund for my games??????
can email if you want
rev20one@yahoo.com
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DesertKing Reply:
September 16th, 2012 at 7:07 pm
@DavidR,
I received the same email and had the same confusion/questions.
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he’s young. probably just for pure developmental reason and will be called up if the season is back.
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Well, at least the lock-out will give the NHLNetwork time to get up to speed and realize the Kings are the Stanley Cup champions, not Boston, not Washington, not Pittsburgh and not Edmonton, and actually develp some programming related to the Kings. Maybe something like “Crown Change”, “2012, The Greatest Cup Run Ever”, “From 8 to 1, When Everyone Said It Couldn’t Be Done”, “!6-4, Could Anyone Really Ask For More?”, “Jon Quick, Please Meet Mr. Conn Smythe.” No hockey sucks, cancelling frozen Fury sucks, the NHL Network sucks, having the Stanley Cup ROCKS!!
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neil Reply:
September 15th, 2012 at 2:32 pm
@DesertKing, other shows like….”this aint baseball…right?”…….”you dont get anything for winning 3″……or “Inside the Kings insider……a look at the best fans in nhl”
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neil Reply:
September 15th, 2012 at 2:34 pm
@neil, or “Inside the never before seen cornfield” featuring real kings fans!!!
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LVKINGS88 Reply:
September 15th, 2012 at 2:35 pm
@DesertKing, I’m really pissed the season might be put on hold but I’m really pissed that FF is not going to happen,oh well Vegas is always fun so I’m going anyway and I’ll be sporting my Kings gear.I still can’t believe we are fans of the 2012 Stanley Cup winning Los Angeles Kings, un-fricken-believable.
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vegasking Reply:
September 15th, 2012 at 4:11 pm
@LVKINGS88, I feel you. It is just sickening that the freakn owners are going to do this
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DesertKing Reply:
September 15th, 2012 at 4:16 pm
@LVKINGS88,
Can you imagine how awesome FF would have been as the Stanley Cup champions?
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LVKINGS88 Reply:
September 15th, 2012 at 9:30 pm
@DesertKing, ‘Sniff,sniff,yeah, this sucks.
dutch Reply:
September 16th, 2012 at 10:06 am
@LVKINGS88, I do not know were u got that information that thje FF is canceled. I never read that any place. I did read if the lock out only lasted a few days. Then eveything would go on.
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LuckyEleven Reply:
September 15th, 2012 at 3:59 pm
@DesertKing, I have tickets for my 1st FF. I’m so pissed this isn’t gonna happen. Usually I am working this time of year and have never been able to make it but wouldn’t you know it’s gonna be canceled. I guess we’ll also be waiting to raise our 1st Championship banner…I guess after 45 years, what’s another stinking year. This just sucks all around. And yeah I agree, perhaps the NHL network can now get their s@#t together and give the Kings their due. They should have PLENTY of time on their hands. Go Kings Go (whenever that may be).
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TiredOfIt Reply:
September 16th, 2012 at 1:59 am
@DesertKing, The NHL Network totally sucks…Yur right on!!!!!
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Voynov has to play hockey. This is a no-brainer
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I think this is the best move for both the Kings and Voynov, as he can continue to play and develop. Hopefully he’ll dominate in the AHL so he can learn what it’ll take to dominate when the NHL gets back up and running again.
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Osaka Reply:
September 15th, 2012 at 4:43 pm
@deadcatbounce, Not to mention Voynov gets a paycheck.
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hopefully monarchs will be on TV somewhere at times closest thing to kings hockey at least for a while
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Lali Reply:
September 15th, 2012 at 3:13 pm
@Mark, Don’t forget about the Ontario Reign right here in sunny Southern California. Not the Kings but still some hockey.
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Rich,
I don’t know if anyone has asked already but, Andrew Campbell, Marc-Andre Cliche, Rich Clune, Thomas Hickey and Jake Muzzin are free if they want to sign with any AHL club they want right? I would assume it would be Manch if they choose to go that route, but they are not under any obligation to go there ncessarily are they?
What if they wanted to sign to a team closer to their home towns or something during the lockout?
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FKA PakiFro Reply:
September 15th, 2012 at 11:56 pm
@Dominick (defrim65),
Are they stuck in the AHL all year if they sign one of these deals?
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Well it looks like our banner raising game will be the last one i go to for a long time.
..whenever that game happens. I wanna see that and then it will be easier to walk away. I’ll still watch and support the Kings but I’ll do so from my living room and on this site. Hello KHL and AHL live streams…hell..maybe ill go to a Reign game for once. No more purchases of NHL anything for me…not after this..
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kissmyblarneystones Reply:
September 15th, 2012 at 10:55 pm
@TeamJMFJ,
Yeah Right!! Suck it up, dude
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TeamJMFJ Reply:
September 16th, 2012 at 11:10 am
@kissmyblarneystones suck up what? A 3rd lockout under Bettman? Yeah right…im sick of it. And you should be too.
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kissmyblarneystones Reply:
September 15th, 2012 at 10:55 pm
@TeamJMFJ,
Yeah Right!! Suck it up, dude
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KingsFan602 Reply:
September 16th, 2012 at 12:16 pm
@TeamJMFJ, I agree with u bro. As much as I love my Kings and want to see them play this lockout thing is getting to old to fast. NHL Fan lockout should be started!
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TeamJMFJ Reply:
September 16th, 2012 at 11:37 pm
@KingsFan602, thank you!
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I heard that the Condors invited Justin Beiber to their tryouts.
LOL
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DesertKing Reply:
September 15th, 2012 at 4:18 pm
@vegasking,
The 3rd sign of the Apocalypse:
Kings win the Cup
Owners lock out the players
Bieber invited to play for a pro team
Freakin Mayans were right again.
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You can get AHL hockey on line, you can watch every game or just a few, I did that when I wad house bound
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Given the lockout looming, all that can save me from infinite sorrow is the 24hr Cosby Show marathon on TV Land… after that who knows what i might do.
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variable Reply:
September 15th, 2012 at 5:42 pm
@Shakes,
“jam it on the one…”
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Shakes Reply:
September 15th, 2012 at 5:57 pm
@variable, R-r-rrrrobert
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so…
we are told that the players are more unified than the last time – and we lost a whole season then…so i can’t really subscribe to the theories out there that this will be resolved by mid-november…if the players are more willing to lose salary and term for the sake of principle – fehr’s ultimate strength is how he convinces players to wait it out based upon doing the right thing in his mind…
i think the nhl – even the most argumentative ownership groups – will try to do a lot more to save the winter classic from being cancelled, so that might give the nhlpa some leverage, but will it be enough…?…i think if we get to a point in mid-december where nothing is done, my guess is so will be the season – done…that is the ultimate deadline foe having any kind of season this year…imo…
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CB14 Reply:
September 15th, 2012 at 6:28 pm
@variable, I’m one of those who feel it will get figured out after a month or two. This time the majority of the teams are actually making money. Last time the majority of the teams were losing money, and alot of it.
The only reason this lockout is happening is because the owners presented such an outrageous first offer. The players are willing to take a pay cut, but not a huge one like the owners want. I think ultimately they will settle around 54% with it decreasing 1% each year until it’s an even 50 / 50 split.
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HockeyNerd Reply:
September 15th, 2012 at 8:20 pm
@CB14, I’m not that optimistic. The 2 sides are too far apart. Even as of right now the players could take the current ridiculous and absurd proposal and still make some pretty good money. The owners could just agree to the same exact terms we have now and be more than all right. Unfortunately the reality of what will happen is very different. The NHL has and will continue to basically extort the players, whether they say so or not they will NOT negotiate, they will just simply wait until the players cave in. It worked last time to a T.
For their part, the players have Fehr representing them for a reason. And that reason is that they do NOT want to just hand over the farm like last time. If they are going to lose several months or a season over this, they do not want to be dictated to.
So there you have it. Each side is going to just wait for the other side to do something they aren’t going to do.
It doesn’t look good at all!!!!!!
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luc20rules Reply:
September 15th, 2012 at 8:04 pm
@variable, +1, SADLY! The owners and their mouth piece Bettman just feel that dictating the terms is how its done. Its like no negotiations should ever take place in their minds that is why they choose the least amiable person in the world to be their mouth piece. Right?
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variable Reply:
September 16th, 2012 at 5:20 pm
@luc20rules,
he’s their best lawyer – yep…
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Sad. This is just sad. While I was moved to tears by the Kings winning the cup this year I am disgusted by the labor dispute. We’ll see plenty of articles (on other sites) and opinions (many of them very reasoned) about which side to take. I’m going to take the side of the fan. Which is the hardest side to take, especially when your team won the Stanley Cup this summer (and you were brought to tears by it).
At the end of the day the reason why both the players and the owners feel at least a little comfortable in allowing a lockout to occur (or any stoppage) is at the end of the day because of their confidence that after all the BS is handled, after all the changes in the schedule (and the impact that has on so many things like the employees at the arena and the ability for some LA Kings fans to come back west and see his team raise their championship banner) that the fans will continue to buy those tickets, those sweaters and hats, and perhaps most importantly will continue to tune in.
Well, not me. As hard as it is to essentially boycott the NHL and my beloved Kings it is really the only thing that a fan can do to make their voice heard. Stop tuning in, stop patronizing the league, we’re the ones who are the bedrock for why this league exists. It may not be popular, but after the second lockout in less than 10 years I’ve had it. I’m out.
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As I watch the Stanford/SC game it pains me that my only chance to hear a goal horn for the next month or so may (oddly) only be when Stanford scores a touchdown.
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IceGuy Reply:
September 15th, 2012 at 8:57 pm
@Shakes,
Wow – bad night for my teams.
USC plays like #2.
NHL chooses the nuclear option.
Time for some serious drinking I’m afraid.
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Steve W Reply:
September 15th, 2012 at 11:06 pm
@IceGuy, And to top it off, UCLA wins again! 3-0. UCLA is ahead of 2-1 USC. Priceless!
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Steve W Reply:
September 15th, 2012 at 11:07 pm
@Steve W, In the PAC 12 I mean.
Kopi Bryant Reply:
September 16th, 2012 at 9:34 am
@Steve W, U-C-L-A fight fight fight
The Bettman-Fehr extinction level event astroid hits the NHL in 1 hr & 3 mins.
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12 minutes and counting. Sadness.
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Closing time
…tom waits style
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Gustavo Reply:
September 16th, 2012 at 8:15 am
@neil,
“You know, the bartenders…they all know my name..”
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luc20rules Reply:
September 16th, 2012 at 1:37 pm
@Gustavo, “You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay at Staples Center. Its Lockout Time!”
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Lock out baby! NO NHL 2012-2013. I’M OUT!
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WoW no NHL hockey for the foreseeable future, sad sad sad. I’ll be doing my part and not supporting the NHL financially. No NHL center ice, or going to games or merchandise. We as fans need to put some pressure on the wallets of the owners and players, at the end we actually pay for their salaries.
Go KINGS Go
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Bettman and his entourage suck fat tool.
Sorry, I had to get that off my chest.
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just checking in….
Bummed about the lockout…
Gonna keep a positive attitude…..
Proud of our Kings…..
And you can take that to the bank..
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hear that? yeah me neither…f***tards.
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Ok season ticket holders, here we go -
Option #1 or Option #2?
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John K. Reply:
September 15th, 2012 at 11:18 pm
@DesertKing, Chose the only option. Cancel season tickets. If there is NHL hockey, watch it on TV. Let’s see how the owners will survive without fans and their MONEY. DO NOT BUY ANY HOCKEY MERCHANDISE…
You can come up with few more ideas to punish the owners and the GNOME…
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Gustavo Reply:
September 16th, 2012 at 8:51 am
@John K.,
I’m taking it in stride.
If the whole season is cancelled, we got alternative plans to use the thousands of dollars the LA Kings owners will not be able to siphon out of my pocket. We’ll buy a single game ticket for the banner raising ceremony whenever that happens and probably never buy season tickets again.
Either way we’ve already decided not to spend a dime on merchandise, food or drink all season long. A bottle of water, perhaps, since we’re not allowed to bring our own. I have always voted with my wallet. This time around is no different. The aggravation the owners and players are putting their loyal paying fans through does not deserve rewards, patience or condoning.
As for whose side I’m on, I must admit to be one of the few people I know who does NOT side with the NHLPA. Yes, the owners first offer was draconian. But it was an offer and it was expected to be so.
Mr. Fehr, however responded with the most obnoxious concept imaginable: “We, the players, are going to tell the owners how their money should be shared among the teams so there is more revenue parity and we don’t have to make concessions we don’t want to make”…(major eye roll here) The NHLPA is better off forming its own league if they want to be so presumptuous as to tell their employers how the teams monies should be distributed.
Is there lack of revenue parity among the teams. No doubt.
Would it help for the weaker revenue teams get a bigger share of the pie? Perhaps, but not if these owners keep giving away Parise, Sutter & Weber type contracts.
Should the players be entitled to demand a different distribution of other people’s monies? Hell, no!!
The moment I read that arrogant statement from the NHLPA, I knew the season was lost. Boy, I wanted to be wrong so damn bad. Unfortunately I wasn’t. And until Mr. Fehr and the players back off from that stance, I doubt the owners will take anything the NHLPA says seriously. What Fehr and the players did only managed to create a level of animosity between them that did not need to be there.
I blame Fehr, more than I blame Bettman. And I’m the farthest thing from a Bettman fan, to begin with.
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Kramer Reply:
September 16th, 2012 at 11:54 am
@Gustavo,
You hit the nail right on the head. I couldn’t have said it any better
Jimmyosports Reply:
September 16th, 2012 at 12:23 pm
@Gustavo, You’re talking in circles. First you blame the palyers and then the owners. Make up your mind..There is only one group of idiots causing all the problems – Bettman and the egotistical rich owners.. In 2004, the owners in theie wisdom wrote the contract for the nest 7 years and now all sudden it’s not good enough – this was their own contract. During the past number of years, these ego-hungry owners signed many of the players to huge, long-term contract just to try and out-do each other. Surprise !!!! After all this, they are now crying fowl and need more money ? What a bunch of idiots. The owners put themselves in this mess, not the players…. Look at it from the players point of view – If some stupid owner wants to give me a ten year contract paying about 5 to 10 million dollars a year, I’d be dumb not to take the money….Only one group at fault for this mess, the Owners. I’m with the players 100%.
skulek Reply:
September 16th, 2012 at 10:35 pm
@Gustavo, and you can bring in bottles of water to Staples, it just has to be sealed and smaller than 1L.
Stuart Reply:
September 17th, 2012 at 9:58 am
@skulek,good to know! thanks!
Fin Alyn Reply:
September 17th, 2012 at 4:49 pm
@Gustavo, Apparently you didn’t read the first “draconian” offer. Part of the reason they said the offer was made was because of all the teams losing money. They already have a cap, so the owners are already telling other owners how to spend their money. Who are the Coyotes to be telling the Red Wings how to spend their money??
Since the owners are claiming loses for teams with low revenues, the players rightly said that if we’re going to keep the cap, then you need to increase revenue sharing, otherwise those teams are STILL going to be losing money, and those teams are no better off. I’m sure the players would gladly not tell the owners what to do with their money the instant the salary cap goes away.
A big thank you to both the NHL & NHLPA for yet again showing complete and total disregard for the fans. We pay yet again for greed of both sides who can’t decide on how to split 3.3 billion dollars. Simply shameful. If they come back in time for the winter classic, I hope that stadium is empty! I will not even watch the game. If they miss 1 regular season game, I will use the only power I have & boycot the entire 2012/2013 season. That will be just a few dollars of mine they won’t be fighting over.
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Just was hangin out with Dustin penner at blue beets in Newport beach!!!!
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LuckyEleven Reply:
September 16th, 2012 at 8:13 pm
@Luis Gomez, Nice! did you guys share some pancakes?
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off topic
just a taste of what happened on friday night at Pula Amphiteatre, Croatia… a game between HDD Olimpija Ljubljana and Medveščak Zagreb in EBEL League
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y7lwTUA3j0
http://www.siol.net/sportal/hokej/ebel/2012/09/liga_ebel_3_krog.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_Hockey_League
still, hope to see a full season of LA Kings hockey
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Just so sad
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Interesting tweet this am:
David Pagnotta @TheFourthPeriod
More KHL info: Antropov will be joining Barys Astana, * Loktionov will join Atlant, * and Kulemin to join Malkin & Gonchar in Magnitogorsk
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andy Reply:
September 16th, 2012 at 11:58 am
@Token, And I suspect that Slava Voynov will play in his hometown for Chelyabinsk rather than stepping back and playing for the Manchester Monarchs! Good for Andrei Loktionov for choosing Atlant instead of the AHL as the KHL has to be a lot better for a player with his skill set! Good Luck to Slava and Andrei and other Kings that decide the KHL is a better alternative than sitting and wasting away or going to the AHL! They’ve done their time! KHL 2nd best league and getting better all the time!
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Just another beautiful morning in So Cal, the day before training camp opens, geeking up on the early NHL player reports, getting the jerseys dry cleaned for Frozen Fury, changing the oil in the truck for the run to Vegas, setting up my personal schedule with my Kings tickets, checking out which Kings gear I want for Christmas, basking in the glow of the Stanley Cup, RRRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!! What the….. Crap, hey honey, what channel is the football game on? Can you also get me the number for our attorney, since I can’t figure out whether I should take Option #1 or Option #2 for our season tickets? Yep, way to start what should have been the second greatest season ever.
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So it begins but fear not my fellow bloggers.
The gap ain’t that big. They can work out pretty quickly, and that’s my guess.
I remember, during the championship parade in downtown, Patrick O’neil said he was surprised to learn that Dean Lombardi and scouting stuff are staying in the motel for the scouting trip. I was surprised, too. Dean? Staying in the motel 6 or whatever? It was just beyond my imagination cause it would be very destructive if the couple in the next room banging all night long …
Owners, Bettman, players should follow his example. This is a hard time for everyone. Everybody needs to sacrifice and give something up. Players want business class flight and single room stay in the hotel? Sure you can demand it when the economy isn’t this bad but surely not now. Or the team like Maple leafs have the right to fly with business class but surely Yotes need to take Grayhound. Yet they gave Doan a 21 million deal? Come on.
Both sides, give something up already and start with 50/50 split, and see what’s gonna happen to the economy and then talk again. It’s that simple. Do it!
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BS
http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=641584&cmpid=fb
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DesertKing Reply:
September 16th, 2012 at 9:26 am
@Lake Forest,
So does that mean they are going to play and let us in to the games for free? Guess your call of “BS” is the correct one.
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HockeyNerd Reply:
September 16th, 2012 at 10:03 am
@Lake Forest, “Despite the expiration of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, the National Hockey League has been, and remains, committed to negotiating around the clock to reach a new CBA that is fair to the Players and to the 30 NHL teams.”
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
And incidentally: what point are you trying to make by saying we have competitive balance and 7 different cup winners in 7 years(BTW also you’re about to have 7 different cup winners in 8 years). I DON’T WANT your stupid competitive balance!!!! I want the best organization with the best players to win! Is that so hard to understand???? Or should we keep going down the same road? Hey why not just give a point to the loser of a game regardless? They showed up and tried right? Let’s flip a coin for overtime too, it’s faster. And let’s give everyone the identical salary. And if your team has 20 or more goals than someone else you have to give your leading scorer to Columbus so they can have the same record as you.
Absurd!!!!!!!!
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Bob Bobson Reply:
September 17th, 2012 at 8:21 am
@HockeyNerd, I intensely dislike these negotiating tactics of waiting out the other side.
NHL: “Well you have nothing better to offer so I’m just going to sit here until my face turns blue”
NHLPA: “Fine, well I’m just going to stand on my head until you give into what I want!”
Unfortunately, these are the only tactics that seem to work. The players are most likely to cave in (again) and the games lost will be for nothing. In the end, we are the collateral damage in this games.
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just thinking out loud here but could this lockout and stoppage of regular play be some sort of (agreed) marketing scheme to push popularity of NHL hockey in Europe?
If players head over to the various European leagues in masses and European fans are exposed to some nifty NHL-caliber hockey talent, might that not actually help push the NHL into these markets?
I live in Germany and since two years I subscribe to NHL Game Center but, honestly, I don’t know anyone else who does…
When I was watching the Stanley Cup Playoffs last May and I simultaneously tuned in to some World Cup coverage I could not believe my eyes, so huge was the difference: slow, sluggish hockey, botched plays, empty seats. I remember thinking why on earth a hockey fan would settle for something so obviously inferior to the real thing (NHL). I believe, the NHL has quite some room for marketing itself in Euroe – just like the NBA has done for many years now. Sending a few of the premier stars over here – even if only for a few months – could well help in that effort.
GO KINS!
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Gustavo Reply:
September 16th, 2012 at 4:45 pm
@German King,
I see your point, but I think you’re over thinking it.
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As the old saying goes, “a pox on both of their houses.” Both sides are greedy and couldn’t care less about the fans (especially the owners). Let ‘em stay out for a year or two. The players will never make up the salary that they will lose and the owners, for all of their talk, will be sitting with empty arenas and losing money.
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Michael_DD8 Reply:
September 16th, 2012 at 11:13 am
@Jeff,
As much as i agree with that, at the end of the day everyone, fans, owners and players would all be losing. It has to get done, and i think both sides know that there has to be a season. Owners are doing a good job with the ‘care a less about a lockout’ bargaining chip, and the players this time aren’t buying it, yet. Both sides are still using the first game of the season as a real deadline.
But yeah, all these guys (owners and players) are going to get there money one way or the another, the millions of dollars and percentages to players/owners all trickles down so slightly throughout the tree.
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What is the attraction of this game which is played differently than the game with the same name everywhere else in the world, that Buffalo Wild Wings opens up 2 hours earlier for, that is called a “ball” even though it is not round and has a point at 2 ends and has a silver and black team that everyone here cheers for even though they play 500 miles north of here?
I’m lost
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DesertKing Reply:
September 16th, 2012 at 10:28 am
@HockeyNerd,
I think the attraction is the fact that they are actually playing, with fans in the stands, players on the field and games televised on mutliple channels. It is called entertainment.
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HockeyNerd Reply:
September 16th, 2012 at 10:40 am
@DesertKing, Touché.
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DesertKing Reply:
September 16th, 2012 at 10:48 am
@HockeyNerd,
2013 , assteroids Buttman and the Feurer have struck the plant . The End.
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rumpa #19 Reply:
September 16th, 2012 at 12:04 pm
@rumpa #19, oops Planet.
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These moves such Voynov is nothing more then the Kings protecting their assets. Voynov keeps Doughty competitive.
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andy Reply:
September 16th, 2012 at 8:19 pm
@rogiesbackup, Voynov is going to end up in Russian with his club team(Chelyabinsk) and NOT Manchester that would be a waste of time,money and development!!!
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I think it’s safer to assume that Gagne will score more goals in the top six then Penner will. Remember early in the season he was averaging a goal a game??!!! Penner, despite his playoff heroics is a good threat on the third line if he doesn’t view this as a demotion. I hope that management emphasize third and fourth lines are expected to score as well. I still think the Kings have enough talent to have all four lines looking to put the puck behind the net yet have agressive forecheckers in Stoll, Fraser, Nolan, Clifford, etc.
These opportunistic cats have demonstrated awesomeness in not only scoring a goal, but how the goal was scored. Take for example, Kyle Clifford’s breakaway goal last season that Scuds assisted on. I didn’t know Kyle had those “Justin Williams hands,” yet he’s soooo freakin young!!!
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Lokti goes to the KHL https://twitter.com/TheFourthPeriod/status/247345978833780738
Is a breach of his contract? I am not a fan of Lokti, I could care less if he comes back. I am just trying to figure out the rules of the loaned players to Manchester.
Thanks.
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After reading some of the posts and in talking to many of my hockey friends, the pure, undiluted and well justified anger most of us feel towards this lockout situation can be sliced with a butter knife. Whether you’re for the owners’ side (few of us), the players’ side (most fans) or hate them both equally (a good amount), remember everyone here has two very important things in common:
1. We all love the LA Kings.
2. We all want NHL hockey to be played ASAP.
Let’s not turn our frustrations on one another. Like I said earlier, I vote with my wallet to compensate for the aggravation these bozos (both sides) are causing on me and my family.
GO KINGS GO!!
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Kissmyblarneystones Reply:
September 16th, 2012 at 5:39 pm
@Gustavo,
Speaking of relieving frustrations, where is Duncanz when you need him?!?
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TeamJMFJ Reply:
September 16th, 2012 at 11:36 pm
@Gustavo, amen!
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Well, for the second week in a row, my Raiders did not look very good, so it may be a long NFL season for me. But thank goodness there are my beloved Stanley Cup Champion LA Kings, my one ray of sunshine, so I am so looking forward to… this… upcoming…season… oh, yeah, right. How about those LA Sparks?
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Any true hockey fan is gonna watch hockey as soon as it gets going again. Even if there are only 40 games this season I’ll still be cheering for my kings. BUT…I’ll definitely not be going to any games. Gotta make the NHL pay for this lockout somehow.
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Can we put the owners and the PA in a room and not let them leave until they’ve reached a deal?
We’ll feed them, of course.
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nykingfan Reply:
September 17th, 2012 at 6:27 am
@FiG17,
feed them arsenic and nothing else!
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Found Dustin Penney at blue beet in Newport beach last night! Id rather be watchin him on tv tho!!! Let’s get the season started!!
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Lg08 Reply:
September 16th, 2012 at 11:50 pm
@Lg08, Penner**
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well here we sit in another lockout. Been there, done that!
Thank you both NHL and NHLPA
may you both rot in hell!
sorry, but just tired of the SOS with both groups. Every contract negotiation comes complete with a lockout.
It’s sad but they know we’ll all come back when it’s done.
There’s still time to work out a deal but these two(Bettman/Fehr)haven’t figured out that the only way to make a deal is to negotiate. Are they waiting for opening day to resume negotiations?
How pathetic that they can’t come to a resolution on how to slice up billions of $$ for each.
I was one of those people hoping that the fans wouldn’t boo Bettman when he handed out the cup..On 2nd thoughts every fan should have thrown something on the ice towards Bettman and hit him in his head and knock some sense into him.
I’m speaking out of frustration..allow me to rant please.
See you all next season..maybe!
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Here I sit this morning, wearing my Frozen Fury t-shirt from last year, still pondering the biggest question for all season ticket holders – Option #1 or Option #2. Sounds like a scene from a Doomsday movie.
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Sebastian Reply:
September 17th, 2012 at 8:28 am
@DesertKing, Dont take the red pill.
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DesertKing Reply:
September 17th, 2012 at 9:00 am
@Sebastian, What? The white rabbit said to takethe red pill! Paging Dr. Morpheus, paging Dr. Morpheus!
This is how low we have gone – instead of talking about training camp and debating that Toffoli should replace Kopi on the first line, we are reduced to Matrix referrals. I just wish the Architect would explain the concep of “probabilities” to the life forms known as Fehr and Bettman.
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Ontario Reign season is starting up soon! To hell with these knuckleheads arguing over who gets a bigger slice of a couple of billion dollars.
Come on out to Ontario and support these guys making $26.5k a year. A few play for a shot at the big club, but most just play because they freaking love the game!
No bad seat in that arena and no TV time outs.
LET’S GO REIGN!
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Sebastian Reply:
September 17th, 2012 at 8:08 am
@McCheese, MY $40 refund from Frozen fury will go to a Reign game.
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Stuart Reply:
September 17th, 2012 at 10:07 am
@McCheese, I will definitely make it to some Reign games this season!
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