Cost certainty?

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Puck Headlines: Nikolai Zherdev is now the Rangers' enigma
Published 7/2/2008 by Greg Wyshynski at Puck Daddy
... • Jim Kelley of Sportsnet absorbs the financial insanity of free-agency, and unleashes hell on the NHL: "Bettman has delivered a stunning slap to the face of hockey fans who backed him to the zenith when he demonized said players as greedy and promised lower ticket prices and a reining in of unbridled spending." [Sportsnet] ...

Oh, Jim, Jim...
Published 7/3/2008 by George James Malik at Red Wings Snapshots - MLive.com
Sportsnet's Jim Kelley is as angry as somebody who got his neck wrung by Dominik Hasek in discussing the $400 million thrown around on the first day of unrestricted free agency: July 2, Sportsnet : Is this good for anyone except the players? It can't be good for owners. Admittedly the salary cap is up and, theoretically, the owners are playing with the players' money in that the players can't get any more than a 50-plus percentage of income as determined by owners and players' accountants. That's fine on paper, but when the common refrain from ownership in the mid and small ...

The Future Of The CBA
Published 7/3/2008 by Paul at KK Hockey
... contractually earned gains. Surely the owners, knowing the fans, at least the fans in Canada, will always come back (didn’t the post-lockout season prove that), will argue mightily for yet another lockout to fix everything that’s oh so wrong on their side once again. What will Bettman—assuming he’s not fired beforehand—say then? Surely “cost certainty” won’t be a rally cry that will be heartily embraced then. After all, if it’s “all good” now, what will be the definition of bad? more

Dislike, disdain, disgust, and hatred
Published 7/4/2008 by George James Malik at Red Wings Snapshots - MLive.com
... , and lamented free-agent lunacy on Tuesday, wrapped this little ditty in what he describes as an "economics lesson" (really, I swear, he doesn't recycle any of his cap complaints) to pen this missive: ...