To protect the players so they aren't individuals but instead a group. Otherwise the general managers could just do what they want without the players and their families and lives in mind.
guess what, should we win next at home, someone will start measuring a distance from home arena to road arena. and that someone will claim, that Boston or Philly won 23 just because their 23rd win was 'near or not that far' from home.
they all are talking about big investment and risks business (teams) are taking allowing their players to go to play in Olympics. how they are multimillioners and blah-blah-blah
but they are keep forgetting who are the customers of these businesses? Who pays for the product?
we are customers and we are who pay.
sure bettman wont listen to us, never did. but it doesn't mean we should keep silence.
I have better solution for equality-seeking unions.
Find maximum out of minimal distances that nhl teams have to travel and make all teams travel the same distance. If Rangers plays Islanders they should take red-eye flight from La-Guardia to Kansas and then from Kansas to Kennedy.
Such a 'common sense' would be very well in line with 'common sense' shown by unions, any union.
the only reason that liberal should shut the f*ck up because government has absolutely nothing to do with this particular business. It has neither legal nor ethical right to tell businesses who and why they should hire! Period.
And Molson Family instead their statement should have cut it in to the form similar to this: 'Pardon my French, madam, but got f*ck your self!'
Oh! You aren't? It may be very well true you never said it. However, last playoff you walked like a sharks fan and you sounded like a sharks fan, so I assume you are a sharks fan.