Greetings from all of us at ownourgame.com!
The 04/05 NHL season is now officially cancelled due to the labour
dispute between players and owners. The 05/06 season is in serious
jeopardy as well, for other reasons. It appears we are heading for the
nightmare labour litigation process the league wants so they can hire
scabs and break the NHL Players Association through a
divide-and-conquer strategy.
Just as the labour negotiations went nowhere, hockey fans can rest
assured that this upcoming war will not go as the league plans. The
situation is too complicated to be won by a single strategy. We believe
the NHL is now damaged beyond repair, and any attempt to break the
players union and ice teams of scabs will further sink the NHL brand.
The Chinese word for "crisis" has a double meaning: danger and
op****tunity. There is a danger that pro-hockey will go forward under a
variety of sub-standard forms as competing factions continue with their
gloves off. There is equally an op****tunity for players and fans to
take the situation into their own hands and create something unique and
truly amazing, something never before seen in pro-s****ts. It is the
players and fans who have the true passion, and who have the true
commitment to Our Game. It is the players and fans who should take the
lead.
Visit http://www.ownourgame.com
to read our proposal to create a
high-level pro hockey league based on the Cooperative Economic Model
(Co-op). Co-op is a standard business model in use all over North
America. The only major difference between a Co-op and a standard
business is there is no individual or private cor****ate team owner at
the top of the food chain sucking money out of the organization. Beyond
that, the operational models of the league and the teams remain
basically the same - minus profit-taking by owner****p. All profits go
back into the league and the teams.
Best regards from all of us at ownourgame.com, a non-profit attempt to
bring sanity and community back to pro-hockey.
