Will you still watch hockey if the whole season is lost?

[Hadi Cho]

Players are being greedy on this one. Another post says everythings going up so why should player salaries go down? well guess what else is going up? COST! Players don't have to cover any of the cost to run a team. If we look at a more telling stat the revenue, which is profit, you'll see that not even a third of the teams are making a profit, and of those (i think there's 8 teams) only about half are making more then 10M. Now I understand that the owners allowed the players to sign these big deals, but the players need to decide if they want the money they signed for and bankrupt the league, or go from (based on the average salaries throughout the league) 2.4M per to 2M per. Frankly, I have absolutely no sympathy for the players who make, on average, $2M a year. Especially considering a lot of these players only have highschool education and would otherwise be making 50-70K a year doing manual labour. You have to remember they get to play a sport as a job. I PAY money every year so that I can play that sport. Gimme a break you spoiled brats.