We want to have a higher percentage. We want more dollars to come into the system. |
We were almost in arbitration a couple of times, but everyone thought that it was in everybody's interest to reach a settlement. If you leave it up to an arbitrator, you have no control of the situation. We have a duty to represent the player, and that's what we did. |
We'd like to see it. We all understand that's a big market. We all understand that's the second-largest market and we should be in that market. And as we go into the TV negotiations [the league's contract runs through 2005] and look toward the future, we need to address that. |
We're deadlocked. There's nowhere to go. There's no reason to continue meeting. |
We're deadlocked. There's nowhere to go. There's no reason to continue meeting. We're too far apart on our economics, and too far apart on revenue sharing, and we'll go to the uncapped year. There won't be an extension. |
We're farther apart now than we were when we got started. If we get to the uncapped year, we won't come back, or else we'll do what we have to do. |
We're further apart now than when we started. For anyone to believe that we're close is just not reality. |
We're not asking them to play him, we can't force them to do that, |
We're not asking them to play him, we can't force them to do that. But if they're not going to let him come back to practice and do all the other things associated with that, then we want them to cut him, let him become a free agent now. |
We're not negotiating this in the atmosphere the NHL was in, with teams going out of business. We know what the revenue growth is. |
We're running out of time. I'm at my bottom line. I have nowhere else to go. I've said for years that the only thing that would prevent us from getting a deal was if one side gets greedy. Well, they've gotten greedy. |
We're still trying to get our arms around it [the issue of testing]. There's no doubt we believe it should be tested for. And there's no doubt we believe it should be on the banned list. |
We're taking the position it will not get resolved. We're just not there yet. Today, we might as well head to an uncapped year. |
We're very concerned. We've requested the tapes [of the game] so we can look at them. Bur our medical adviser called me and said he couldn't believe they didn't notice Kurt had a concussion. |
We've demonstrated we are not afraid to decertify. We understand the laws and what's available to us. |