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Commentary: Columbus hockey fans still suffering as NHL lockout arrives
By John Cimperman
Published: Sunday, September 16, 2012
On Jan. 28, Columbus Blue Jackets fans, who have only witnessed postseason hockey once in the team’s 12 years of existence, received the best news from NHL commissioner Gary Bettman since the team’s inception. The city of Columbus would be hosting the 2013 NHL All-Star Game, or so they were told. At midnight Sunday,the NHL’s collective bargaining agreement expired, and with no new deal in place, players were locked out by the owners for the second time in nine years.
READ MORE: http://www.thelantern.com/sports/commentary-columbus-hockey-fans-still-suffering-as-nhl-lockout-arrives-1.2902327#.UFig6kI9ldwPosted 9 months ago # -
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Blue Jackets Lockout Might Affect Arena District Businesses
September 24, 2012
by Sam Hendren
89.7 NPR News Reporter
It’s been a little more than a week since National Hockey League owners locked out players over revenue sharing and salary caps, among other things. The lockout includes Columbus Blue Jackets players – who won’t be paid for missed games. The dispute might mean some economic hard times for others — especially for businesses in the Arena District.
READ MORE: http://beta.wosu.org/news/2012/09/24/blue-jackets-lockout-might-affect-arena-district-businesses/Posted 8 months ago # -
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Might? Weren't we told that if there wasn't hockey at the arena it would be Armageddon for the district?
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Coremodels said:
Might? Weren't we told that if there wasn't hockey at the arena it would be Armageddon for the district?+1 . Also, I'm not saying that the BlueJackets are going to the playoffs, but with Nash gone and pretty much a new team in place, I was very interested to see how the season would turn out. I was hoping above .500. This sucks!
On a side note, would it be possible for the NHL players to form a temporary "rouge" hockey league. I mean I highly doubt it would be possible, but man I would pay $35+ to see NHL players play at a converted Jesse Owens Stadium (for example). Yes I realize that they would have to get permission from OSU and yes its outside, but I can't think of any where else available and would hold enough fans.
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+1 . Also, I'm not saying that the BlueJackets are going to the playoffs, but with Nash gone and pretty much a new team in place, I was very interested to see how the season would turn out. I was hoping above .500. This sucks!On a side note, would it be possible for the NHL players to form a temporary "rouge" hockey league. I mean I highly doubt it would be possible, but man I would pay $35+ to see NHL players play at a converted Jesse Owens Stadium (for example). Yes I realize that they would have to get permission from OSU and yes its outside, but I can't think of any where else available and would hold enough fans.
Anyone who wants to play can go make money in one of the many other leagues around the world. Most of these players are playing very far from home (at least on the blue jackets) and I doubt they feel any obligation to set up a rouge league for the fans here.
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N.H.L. Proposes Even Split Of Revenue
By JEFF Z. KLEIN - NYTimes.com
Published: October 16, 2012The N.H.L. made a surprise offer in talks for a new collective bargaining agreement on Tuesday in Toronto, proposing a 50-50 split of hockey-related revenue with the N.H.L. Players’ Association and a mechanism guaranteeing that current contracts would be honored without rollbacks.
READ MORE: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/17/sports/hockey/nhl-offers-players-50-50-revenue-split.html
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Sports Commission ‘hopeful’ NHL proposal will save All-Star Game for Columbus
Business First by Jeff Bell, Staff reporter
Date: Wednesday, October 17, 2012, 2:25pm EDTColumbus’ long-awaited chance to host the National Hockey League All-Star Game remains alive after a new development in the labor impasse between the league’s owners and players.
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Blue Jackets President John Davidson Talks NHL Lockout, Life in Columbus
Published on November 26, 2012 12:10 pm
By: Jason Parks
The way John Davidson described the city of Columbus, you’d think the new president of hockey operations for the Blue Jackets had been living in the capital city of Ohio for the past decade, not still looking for his first house there. But, Davidson has been busy during the lockout getting acquainted with the Blue Jackets organization.
READ MORE: http://www.columbusunderground.com/blue-jackets-president-john-davidson-talks-nhl-lockout-life-in-columbusPosted 6 months ago # -
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WE'RE NUMBER 2! WE'RE NUMBER 2! Forbes Magazine has released its survey of NHL teams, and the Columbus Blue Jackets rank second from the bottom in team value, but second from the top in operating losses. YEA TEAM!!!
And we, the taxpaying public, have bailed out these, the richest businesspeople and corporations in Columbus, and will absorb their losses for the next 27 years to the tune of at least $236,000,000.
Well ... its not like there is anything else that could be done with that money. Make sense to you? Me neither ... that is why I support the Columbus Coalition for Responsive Government.
The DARE 2B FAIR policy agenda includes a citizen's ballot initiative that would require a vote of the people to continue this corporate welfare past 2015. Learn more and register to help at: http://www.columbuscoalition.info
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Columbus, it seems, is King Midas in reverse when it comes to hockey
Posted: Thursday, November 29, 2012 1:18 pm
by Melissa Dilley
When the National Hockey League granted Columbus an expansion team in 1997, those few-but-fervent hockey fans in town began to dream big. Visions of Stanley Cup pageantry enveloping our fair city, and Ohio State-sized victory riots spilling into streets of the Arena District were hard to resist. The thought of gap-toothed hockey stars living among us, eating at the table across the restaurant, taking pictures and signing autographs for fans who recognized them without their helmets sounded downright worldly. And a new arena, surrounded by a new entertainment district, would become absolutely electric almost nightly as fans wearing red, white and blue jerseys filled the 18,000 seats inside.
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New NHL Labor Talks Bring Optimism
December 5, 2012
by The Associated PressNHL owners and players got right back to the bargaining table this morning just hours after ending a long day of talks that produced the greatest sense for optimism since the lockout began three months ago.
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NHL Labor Optimism Iced
December 7, 2012
by The Associated Press
The NHL has rejected the players’ latest offer for a labor deal, and negotiations have broken off at least until the weekend. The talks broke off after just one hour Thursday night.
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NHL announces cancellation of schedule through January 14
Thursday, 12.20.2012 / 4:00 PM / News
By Blue Jackets Staff - WriterCOLUMBUS, OHIO – The National Hockey League announced today the cancellation of the 2012-13 regular season schedule through January 14. The cancellation of games was necessary due to the absence of a Collective Bargaining Agreement between the NHL Players’ Association and the NHL.
READ MORE: http://bluejackets.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=648113Posted 5 months ago # -
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Dispatch had a nice write up on Donald Fehr (yesterday maybe?), the NHLPA's President or Rep or whatever. Lockouts follow this dude around. He oversaw 3 of them when he was the President of the MLB's Players' Association. He is terrible for whatever sports players' association he heads. Get him out.
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So glad the taxpayers bought the arena so the owners don't feel the financial pinch while they've locked out the players and denied hundreds to thousands of people employment in the Arena District. This has really turned me away from even being a casual Blue Jackets fan at this point.
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Sounds like its time for the all the former hockey fans to trade up to season tickets for the Crew!
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