Forum Overview :: NHL '94 :: The season was cancelled.

[quote name="Ice Cream Jonsey"]I'll give you bias from both sides, which hopefully cancels each other out: The owners locked out the players in an attempt to get them to accept some financial responsibility. After all, the owners have shown none themselves in recent years. The owners claimed to want a salary cap and the player union stated that a cap would not be acceptable. Right before the season was about to be cancelled the players gave in a little and said they'd accept a cap. I've heard different things regarding what happened next: 1) The owners said, "Haha, what?" And sat there with vacant smiles on their faces. Four or five owners actually wanted there to be no season whatsoever, so it brings up the question if the owners were ever negotiating "fairly." So you can blame the owners for the cancellation of the season. 2) The players' proposal for a cap was such that every team getting to the cap meant that more money would be spent on player salaries than it did last years, which the owners were trying to avoid. I think the players wanted a cap in the neighbrohood of $50 million? $45 million? Somewhere around there. So you can blame the players for no season. There have been a couple "But wait!" moments after the season's cancellation was announced, but nothing has really come of it. ICJ[/quote]