Brian Burke's solution to the CBA

[itslonganditsgood]

In case you don't get CBC or weren't watching, Brian Burke came up with his solution. I don't know, it seems pretty reasonable:

1. Phase in agreement over two years
2. Commit to a 12-year contract
3. Escrow:
Seven per cent of player payroll
Ten per cent of designated hockey revenue (DHR)
Arena construction fund
4. Agree to share revenues of $200 million with $75 million
coming from playoff pool
5. Avoid luxury tax by establishing a payroll threshold at $38 million and payroll minimum of $33 million
6. Set overage fees and penalties at:
1st million = $0.50 on the dollar
2nd million = $1 per dollar
3rd million = $2 per dollar
4th million = $3 per dollar
5th million or more = $5 per dollar
7. Reward good business behaviour by charging fees to repeat offenders
8. Guarantee players 55 per cent of DHR
9. Build trust with joint audit controls:
1st offence = $1 million fine
2nd offence = $5 million fine
10. Establish four-year entry-level system with a maximum $250,000 in rookie bonuses
11. Allow unrestricted free agency at age 29
12. Amend qualifying offers to:
26 years and over = 75 per cent
26 years and under = 50 per cent
13. Reduce regular-season games from 82 to 70
14. Revise salary arbitration by:
Adopting baseball's hi/low system
Allowing clubs to bring a player to arbitration
Permitting a team or player to file only once every 3 years
15. Set a drop-dead date for player signings

http://www.cbc.ca/pcgi-bin/templates/sportsView.cgi?/news/2004/09/14/Sports/burke040914

[Snarf]

It sounds good, but the NHLPA won't go for it. They are going to fight anything that has a cap in it, at least till around the first of the year. I really fear that the NHL will give in and we will be in the same boat we were in last year.

[matthew94]

I have no idea if it sounds good or bad :)

But at least someone is throwing out numbers/specifics

As far as the 33-38 threshholds.....aren't some teams already well beyond 38? Is that why there is a 'phasing in'

[biggbrd27]

In case you don't get CBC or weren't watching, Brian Burke came up with his solution. I don't know, it seems pretty reasonable:....
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Makes too much sense for those greedy pigs from the NHLPA to agree to it. Their whole frame of reference at this point is to show NHL management who is boss. Sorry, but you boys want to be paid the same as your peers in the NFL, MLB and NBA??? The revenue streams you generate don't even come near to those generated by the other sports. Hell, the NHL is now 5th behind NAT-CAR in fan interest (except in Canada, if the NHL has to live off of Canada these guys will be making 75 Grand a year, the NHL would become a glorified CFL...) in many of the major markets in N America. The players just don't get it. Mike Peca should not earn the same kind of money as Brett Favre or any other NFL star. The NHL has truly passionate fans at its core, but it can never hope to rival the other major sports in fan interest OR REVENUE GENERATION (the REAL KEY) in most markets outside of Canada. Somebody please smack the Bozos running the NHLPA upside their heads and knock some sense into them. Otherwise these fools will leave their membership (& us) with no NHL, perhaps a watered down new league with a fourth of the teams AND JOBS it used to have. It is such far-sighted, innovative thought by Union leadership that has made the United Steel Workers and the Steel industry the industrial powerhouse it is today!! The NHLPA looks like just another union that cannot see the economic realities of their industry for what they are, and has its head firmly up its posterior!
:( :coocoo:

[The REAL Sabres]

Makes too much sense for those greedy pigs from the NHLPA to agree to it.
Exactly. Plus it has a pseudo-cap in it.

At least they won't agree to it for a while and without minor changes.