[Plateworker]

Originally Posted by ChiefJunior

There is a massive difference between earning $1 and $1mil., principle or not. You talk about what is right, and I ask you what is right? For the 98% of us to make $40 - 60 000 a year? or for someone who AVGs over $2.4 mil.?

How do the owners use our wallets to make money? You do realize that most of us cannot afford to go to a NHL game, correct? You also realize as salaries have increased so has the cost of a ticket, food, drink, parking etc...

I can't help what your company did to you, that has no relation to the NHL & its salary scale.

You got that right about the 700 NHL players. None of us hardworkers will ever come close to making what they make. I can certainly see how that is a bummer for them.

It is a game. Plain & simple. You can pretend it is not, but it is. Sorry. Don't give me this bull**** about how hard they have had to work since they were 4 or 5. My son plays hockey, started at 4, and is 12 now. Should he be able to go around and tell you all how hard he has had it so far? and he has not even got paid yet? Of course he has the common sense to realize it is a game, like every other person I know.

How can you say the owners exploit the players? Are you suggesting these players get paid minimum wage? Go ask some guy working in a factory for $10 an hour and ask him about exploitation. I don't care how long the AVG player plays. He is very well compensated, and in that 5-6yr time, will more than likely earn more than all of us in our lifetime.

I don't watch the NFL, have no idea what a PSL seat is, but can tell you when a beer costs $13, you can blame the owners all you want, but they have to figure out a way to pay for the players salaries, hydro, plumbing, uniforms, maintenance on the building, food money for the players, hotel costs, airplane costs, land tax, insurance costs etc...

Boy do I feel sorry for guys playing a game. I'm heartbroken.

I knew just by reading your posts that you would completely and utterly miss the point by a mile and a half. You are obviously bitter about what you earn or what others earn over you. Obviously you will be voting for Obama as class warfare seems to be your only alibi.

Like I said missed by a mile. My company makes money hand over fist, never had a loss in its history and it was its most profitable year ever. I work a dangerous job that i have trained years for and I EXPECT to get paid what I deserve since I can not be easily replaced. I want and deserve my 50$ an hour not the 25-30 they want to pay me so they can maximize their bottom line. What the charge the public is none of my concern, it is theirs. They make plenty enough money to compensate without ripping the public off.

By your logic if I was one of only say 100 programmers that can perform whatever function I do as that programmer I expect to be compensated WELL. I know you will belittle the comparison but it is the POINT I am trying to make. Hockey players in the NHL are UNIQUE so much so that out of 6 billion people on the planet only 700+ are good enough to do what they do. And by your logic since it is only a game they should just except whatever the owners give them. Don't worry you didn't build hockey us owners did...lol...yeah ok. guess what I cant afford to go to a game either but apparently there are plenty who can.

You can't seem to get over the point that they make a lot of money playing a game that ENTERTAINS millions of people every year, that a whole country lives by. You keep bringing up money time and again without understanding that no matter how you cut it they do something you and I can not. I can never understand a person whose logic dictates that they would rather see money go to a billionaire then to the person that makes that billionaire his money...and lots of it