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The owners will get their way players, I just think most of you are too stupid to realize this... This isn't about fair, life isn't fair. Unfortunately you play hockey a few years for 1 or 2 mill. It will get tight when half of your lifetime's hockey earning go up in smoke because of this. You are a constantly fading commodity as an athlete, age creeps up on us all but for you, you slower, and more busted up. When your career is over where will Don Fehr be when all you have is a grade 11 education because you were to busy is junior. Oh I know he will be lawyering along like he can making seven figures until he is done with it. Sure you may have graduated high school, but many of you have no chance of getting any kind of true education that will one day pay you what you could be making this month. You just gave up a paycheque last month that most probably would have made in a year or more... The owners don't care as much as you, for example Katz is still selling Tylenol and Turbolax to old people, the Oilers aren't his primary revenue they are a hobby. You think Bell/Rogers is starving, nope they just continue on with their PRIMARY BUSINESS: telecommunications, not hockey. When you area billionaire a few million lost isn't like a few million lost to you players. Fair? Maybe not. But it is reality. I don't think your leadership is telling you that. Great to have Crosby out in front of the cameras, but what do you think Jacob Sliverberg or lenart petrell is thinking. Maybe they just lost 25% of their lifetimes earning. I am not saying you will cave, I am saying you should. Its simple math...
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