- Paperback: 312 pages
- Publisher: Red Deer Press (Nov 17 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0889954747
- ISBN-13: 978-0889954748
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 476 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #160,212 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Bruce Dowbigging's Money Players is a provocative and timely release as the expiration of the NHL's Collective Bargaining Agreement looms. The current labor crisis is pegged to the widely held notion that rising salaries are outpacing revenues. Dowbigging writes, "It's no exaggeration to say that, since Wayne Gretzky was traded to Los Angeles in 1988, the NHL has squandered every opportunity for growth that came its way." For decades, NHL owners treated their players like indentured servants. By keeping costs low, the owners had little incentive to grow revenues. In recent years, they have relied primarily on selling franchises to grow the sport as a whole, which has diluted the product, making it even less attractive to a larger audience. Many point to that infamous Gretzky trade as the moment the salary pendulum began its swing towards the players. But it was cunning agents like Mike Gillis and Rick Curran who, by exploiting loopholes in the CBA and taking advantage of salary disclosure, were the real catalyst for the meteoric rise in player's wages. And while former Players Association Executive Director Alan Eagleson was essentially a toady for the league, his replacement Bob Goodenow has transformed the NHLPA into a powerful union.
Bruce Dowbigging has long been one of Canada's most insightful and intelligent sports reporters--not to mention a gifted storyteller. His accounts of salary negotiations read like the plotting of a good suspense novel. Tales of pre-NHLPA treatment of hockey players are positively Dickensian. To say this book will provoke discussion amongst those who read it is an understatement. Money Players covers a subject most every Canadian has an opinion on and will certainly challenge reader's misconceptions regarding hockey's labor issues. --Moe Berg --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The Amazing Rise and Fall of Bob Goodenow and the NHL Players Association.
In late February 2005, NHL owners and Bob Goodenow of the NHL Players Association met behind closed doors in what was purported to be a last-ditch effort to end the lockout and save the season. At issue was a salary cap-and who called the shots in the hockey business.
As the director of the union, Bob Goodenow used strikes and hardball negotiations to push up player salaries, and while players got rich, the health of the game was ignored. The NHL owners demanded a salary cap, and Goodenow refused. The result was a 103-day lockout that cost a season. The owners got their salary cap, but at what cost to the sport?
One thing was clear: the only real loser was the fan.
Money Players is a bare-knuckled brawl of a book about how the real game has been player behind closed doors between rich executives and agents. Bruce Dowbiggin's controversial, but eye-opening report takes readers from the locker rooms to the boardrooms. And it's not a pretty picture.
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candid account!,
By Vahania63 (Michigan United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Money Players: How Hockey's Greatest Stars Beat the NHL at its Own Game (Hardcover)
I found this book to be pretty much complete history of the relationship between hockey players, team managers, agents and team owners and the NHL. It shows how players salary got from being unadequate to what some people can say ridiculously high. The author definitely knows the subject and knows many people that took part in making NHL history. Although I knew most of the facts, the author puts a human face to it, narrating this through the eyes of people that played a central part in making it all happen, which makes this book a great read. I especially liked the fact that author tries to give an objective account. What's more he gives in the end of the book a few possible resolutions for upcoming lockout, one of which I found very convincing. Great book for anybody who loves the game of hockey and would like to understand the background to what looks like will be lockout for 2004 season.
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