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Madferret
6-21-05, 5:19 PM
Jagr says players' fight against salary cap was "risk that didn't pay off"
PRAGUE (AP) - New York Rangers forward Jaromir Jagr said Tuesday that the players' refusal of a salary cap in talks with the NHL was a mistake.
"We started the fight because we didn't agree with the introduction of salary caps," Jagr said. "Now, we'll be happy to get them. We didn't expect the owners to be so tough and persistent. It was a risk that didn't pay off."
Jagr was quoted, in Czech, on the Czech Ice Hockey Association's website.
The NHL and the NHL Players' Association recently agreed that a salary cap model with an upper and lower limit will be the centrepiece of a new agreement. A deal should be announced in the next two weeks or so.
The lockout started last September and wiped out the entire 2004-05 NHL season.
This is priceless! Jagr is surely one of the Bigger or Biggest Fat Cats that Goodenow has let down / misrepresented / misinformed / cost allot of $$$.
I wonder how many of the other Big Cats are going to start talking.
Then I wonder when Bobby Goodenow gets his walking papers after losing BILLIONS of dollars for the players he's paid to represent.
Out come the Knives!
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Oops, wrong picture...
http://www.tsn.ca/images/stories/20041209/goodenow_56354.jpg
:coffee:
goaliemom7687
6-21-05, 5:39 PM
I say off with his head!!! Both of them!!!! :nod:
"We started the fight because we didn't agree with the introduction of salary caps. Now, we'll be happy to get them. We didn't expect the owners to be so tough and persistent. It was a risk that didn't pay off."
Somebody must be blind then, because anybody with a shred of intelligence could have told you going into this lockout that the owners had the upper hand. Think about it, we're talking about billionaires vs millionaires here. The side with the most money usually comes out on top. I guess it's too bad the players didn't see that.
Madferret
6-21-05, 6:24 PM
Somebody must be blind then, because anybody with a shred of intelligence could have told you going into this lockout that the owners had the upper hand. Think about it, we're talking about billionaires vs millionaires here. The side with the most money usually comes out on top. I guess it's too bad the players didn't see that.
Wasn't every scribe, fan, GM, goach & analyst saying the same thing to the PA?
:curse: :curse: :curse:
leaferfan87
6-21-05, 8:04 PM
Mad Devil I'd say that Jagr has had some success without Lemieux at least between 1998 and 2000.
Mad Devil I'd say that Jagr has had some success without Lemieux at least between 1998 and 2000.
I know, I was just taking a shot at Jagr, who isn't exactly on my "favorite people" list.
Madferret
6-21-05, 9:24 PM
I know, I was just taking a shot at Jagr, who isn't exactly on my "favorite people" list.
Who Jammy? He's the NHL's answer to David Hasslehoff.
http://www.mulletlovers.com/images/jagrcol.jpg
*yoink*
bluemeanie
6-22-05, 2:24 PM
He said, she said...
Alfie: Talks going well
Likes where negotiations going.
"I've spent a lot of time on the phone speaking with people. I don't want to put a date (on when a deal might get done). Hopefully, this is all going to be something positive in the end."
...for the fans of coarse.
story (http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Hockey/NHL/2005/06/22/1099408-sun.html)
Bob burns
6-22-05, 2:42 PM
Who Jammy? He's the NHL's answer to David Hasslehoff.
http://www.mulletlovers.com/images/jagrcol.jpg
*yoink*
:nod: :nod: Not bad M-F.
RE: Jagr.
If he plays till he's forty, he can score less than a point per game, and still become the #2 scorer in NHL history, passing Messier. That's nothing to sneeze at and he's played many years without Mario.
Since we just lost a year make that age 41.
His career point-per-game average is 1.27
His production has tailed off since he left Pittsburgh, but he still has been better than a point per game (230 points in 221 regular season games)
This is not to say he'll break 2,000 or even pass Mess - however one cannot deny the numbers he's put up to this point in his career, and he's only just turned 33.
Madferret
6-22-05, 3:24 PM
RE: Jagr.
If he plays till he's forty, he can score less than a point per game, and still become the #2 scorer in NHL history, passing Messier. That's nothing to sneeze at and he's played many years without Mario.
Since we just lost a year make that age 41.
His career point-per-game average is 1.27
His production has tailed off since he left Pittsburgh, but he still has been better than a point per game (230 points in 221 regular season games)
This is not to say he'll break 2,000 or even pass Mess - however one cannot deny the numbers he's put up to this point in his career, and he's only just turned 33.
Yes, we know Jagr is a hell of a hockey player.That's not the point Matty.
The original context of a big $$$ players conceding defeat is the point of this thread. He's just a fun guy to poke fun at, he's a total flake.
:D
Yes, we know Jagr is a hell of a hockey player.That's not the point Matty.
The original context of a big $$$ players conceding defeat is the point of this thread. He's just a fun guy to poke fun at, he's a total flake.
:D
Well, He does have his own brand of peanut butter, that's pretty weird...
http://www.chuckthomas.com/jj-peanu.jpg
:pimp:
bluemeanie
6-22-05, 3:48 PM
Well, He does have his own brand of peanut butter, that's pretty weird...
Think that's weird?? I have my own brand of super bongs and I've never even had a mullet...
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