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Friday, June 02, 2006

Thanks, Cap!

Yes, I know I promised I wouldn’t blog about hockey, but this isn’t about hockey.  It’s about labor and management.

Just WTF is this piece of pro-owner propaganda doing in the Associated Press account of the Carolina Hurricanes’ victory over the Buffalo Sabres last night?

[Rod] Brind’Amour also assisted on Justin Williams’ goal in the final minute to seal it, propelling the former Hartford Whalers into the finals against the five-time champion Edmonton Oilers.  The small-market, best-of-seven matchup, helped by the NHL’s new salary cap in this first post-lockout season, opens Monday in Raleigh.

Edmonton-Carolina is a small-market matchup helped by the salary cap?  Hello? As opposed, say, to the pre-lockout matchup of Calgary and Tampa Bay back in 2004?  Let’s see, we got a small-market team from the South, check.  And a small-market team from Alberta, check.  Looks like the salary cap is doing its work! 

Well, good riddance to those boring, predictable pre-cap days when the big-market Chicago Black Hawks and Los Angeles Kings dominated the West and the behemoth-market Montréal Canadiens and New York Rangers dominated the East.  Finally, we’ve got us some parity around here.

Paul Kiel is right.  This whole Associated Press bamboozlement enterprise has got to stop.

Posted by Michael on 06/02 at 09:41 AM
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