Do you realy think the players have a chance?

Its one cocky thing a player.  They are the product.  So they think, I guess, that everything is due to them.  That since they are the product, the owner is nothing without them.  "Lets just take more than 50% of the owner's money as a business model and if the owners doesn't like it.  Eat it!"

Well... do you really think that any one who starts a business.  Just what ever that is, will be willing to take all the risk and then share more than half his revenue with his employees?

Get real people.  Shall I remind you that the NHL is not on strike?  Its on lock out.  This means that its the owners that closed the doors.

And who's bringing the offers on the table these days?  Yes.  The players. 

Why?  Well guess who needs his pay check?

Most owners doesn't just have the NHL team as a revenue.  Most of them held more than one company and are making money coming from different streams.  Does this sound familiar?   What am I shouting one should do all the time?  Yes... Multiple streams of revenues.  So you don't get stuck with only one when it dries out.

So who do you thing has the better strategy here?  The players that are nothing without the fans and the money they bring?  Or the owners who makes money from other businesses?  To put it simple.  On the owner's side.  The millions they are not making so far are just changing column.  Its goes from "benefits before tax & general admin" column to "operation loss" column.  And guess what?  Most get a tax deduction from what goes into the "operation loss" column. So.... bring it on!

So the owner's strategy is very simple.  Just sit tight, cross your arms, and wait.  They will have them in the long run.  It can be long because its millionaires against billionaires.  So the money takes a little more time to dry out than it takes for me and you.  But its coming.  Sooner or later.