This week, I will be talking about the National Hockey League lockout from a kid’s perspective.
At the beginning of the lockout most of us (me and my friends) thought it would not last more than a month. Now we are in day 103 of the lockout and, just recently, there was a little bit of hope.
But as soon as there is a bit of hope in this lockout, it quickly turns into an argument or a complete change in direction.
There might be five of 100 kids who know what is going on in the lockout exactly. Not everybody knows what is going on because we are kids. We just want to see them play hockey, we do not want to see a bunch of hockey players turn into businessmen.
And, really, we don’t get why they are fighting over this. We know it is more than just money and contracts, but when you’re getting paid as much money as they are it seems so stupid that they have to fight about it.
And if the players wanted to play so badly, just take the 50/50 deal the owners gave them. That was the only time the owners had budged this whole lockout.
Not saying the players aren’t budging. It’s just that who do we go to see when we go to a hockey game? The players, not the owners.
So I would think if the players are the ones filling the seats night after night, does it not make sense to give them more of the revenue?
Also with the contract situation, if a struggling team has the money to sign big-name players such as the Wild did, let them do it because it is better for the whole league! I am not saying to buy championships. But this way each team can have a chance, unlike the National Basketball Association or Major League Baseball where the Miami Heat and New York Yankees have bought championships.
I focussed on these two reasons because these are what kids look at, if they look at anything in this whole situation, because it is silly. Kids are not interested any more. They are just not caring any more. And that’s sad.
