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[DropThePuck]

121 NHL players were polled "Would you consider negotiating a salary cap system if it meant saving this season?"

RESULTS
No: 105 (87%)
Yes: 9 (7%)
Maybe: 3 (3%)
No comment: 4 (3%)


RESPONSES

ANAHEIM
Lance Ward: “No.”
Steve Rucchin: “I can’t say yes to that. I just can’t. It’s a vague question, so I’d have to say no. That (a $40 million cap) is way too low for 23 guys.”
Jean-Sebastien Giguere: “No way.”
Anonymous: “Yes. They have them (salary caps) in other leagues, so I don’t know why we would be above it. I wouldn’t want contracts not to be guaranteed, but I can’t see why we can’t take a look at it (salary-cap system) and try to figure something out. I would look at it.”

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[DropThePuck]

I'd love to know who the anonymous Ducks player is ...

[Dark Knight]

I'd love to know who the anonymous Ducks player is ...

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Whoever he is, if we found out, he'd deny it.

[MrsBevo]

"Anonymous" has to be a native English speaker - too articulate for the Russian guys. I would also guess they are one of the lower paid guys. Just my guess.

[Blue]

Anonymous is now my favorite Ducks player! As far as Rucchin, Giguere, and Ward, I'm disappointed. Come on Rooch, what the $%^& do you mean that $40 million is too low for 22 guys? Yeah, the average person just can't survive on $1.8 million a year. I know I'd sure have to cut back if I made that much... oh wait, you make about as much in a game as most of us make in a year. And I pay $5,400 a year for tickets to pay your overpriced salary. Wake up! Rooch, I thought you were better than that. Union solidarity? The NHLPA is a joke. Unions are meant to give people a fair living wage -- auto workers, dock workers, things like that. But a union where the average salary is $1.8 million? What a joke. Try fan solidarity -- try being loyal to the fans who pay your salary for once.

It's going to be hard to forget these comments.

[Dark Knight]

Anonymous is now my favorite Ducks player! As far as Rucchin, Giguere, and Ward, I'm disappointed. Come on Rooch, what the $%^& do you mean that $40 million is too low for 22 guys? Yeah, the average person just can't survive on $1.8 million a year. I know I'd sure have to cut back if I made that much... oh wait, you make about as much in a game as most of us make in a year. And I pay $5,400 a year for tickets to pay your overpriced salary. Wake up! Rooch, I thought you were better than that. Union solidarity? The NHLPA is a joke. Unions are meant to give people a fair living wage -- auto workers, dock workers, things like that. But a union where the average salary is $1.8 million? What a joke. Try fan solidarity -- try being loyal to the fans who pay your salary for once.

It's going to be hard to forget these comments.

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Well said; we live in a society that rewards entertainers (of all kinds) with obscene salaries instead of those who make the society work. Until that changes, until fans say f*ck you, I'm boycotting your GAMES, nothing will change.

[DropThePuck]

It's going to be hard to forget these comments.

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Hear, hear! But I'm still hoping that somehow hockey will return to its roots and we'll have players that will again be playing just for the love of the game ... yeah, and hell will have frozen over so that they will be playing there.

[Baltic Gal]

"Anonymous" has to be a native English speaker - too articulate for the Russian guys.  I would also guess they are one of the lower paid guys.  Just my guess.

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Not necessarily Mrs. B. Some of the writers clean up the broken English of the players, making it sound like they speak almost perfect English. Terry Fri is a bad one for doing that, as he has done that with Ozo's quotes in the past.

[MKLightning]

Yeah, the average person just can't survive on $1.8 million a year. I know I'd sure have to cut back if I made that much... oh wait, you make about as much in a game as most of us make in a year.

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I sure would be happy with the league minimum (or half of it, or a third!). They also get endorsement money from equipment makers for wearing their stuff, not to mention all the other perks. I can't see the NHL players going off to the Post Office scrounging for packaging tape to bind their socks like the kids do. And for all that money, do we see them always playing their hearts out and giving 100%, and not being a primadonna?