Not Feeling Your Pain
From TSN’s Doan criticizes Bettman’s motives:
“(The owners) don’t want guaranteed contracts. What they want is, if they make a mistake, they want to be able to cut a guy and not have to worry about it.”
Bettman and the owners have said multiple times that they’re not looking to change guaranteed contracts; over and over; I don’t know why Doan feels any differently. The NHL even takes note of it on their propoganda NHL CBA News site.
But let’s say for a moment that the owners were trying to get rid of guaranteed contracts and he had more of a point - does he realize how ridiculous his quote still sounds to the press and the general public, most of whom can be fired at their jobs for a single mistake?
I liked watching Shane Doan play last year, but his comments aren’t helping his union or the public’s perception of the union or its players.
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