Introduction:
Average males always want to be right, it’s our men
sport to be right and proof to the opponent that he is wrong. Stupid we are.
The two brilliant brains Donald Fehr and Gary Bettman are now in this
situation. They want to win and they want to be right. This is a wrong attitude
at this point of the discussion and because they have brilliant brains they
will admit that the following input is not that bad and this will reduce their personal
influence without losing their faces.
Let’s start the discussion with the question: Do the NHL-players make too much money?
My clear answer is NO. Why? We have worldwide approx. 1'600'000 hockey-players and the best 0.05% of them play in the NHL and make excellent money. Let’s face it: If you belong to the worldwide best 0.05% percent of bakers, accountants, software-developers, cooks, journalists or you name it... you also will make approx. this money. My personal case: I’m the Head Human Resources of the middle-sized tourist company, Hapimag, in Switzerland. This is a great company to work for and I truly believe that I’m doing a good job for them. I get a good salary and Hapimag gets a fair ROI. I think it’s a fair deal for both sides. Although I belong to the Executive Board of this company I make much less money than a NHL-player. Is this unfair? Of course not because I have to ask myself the question: Do I belong to the worldwide best 0.05% of all Head Human Resources? To be honest: No, I don’t belong to the best 0.05% worldwide Head Human Resources. If I pass away tomorrow, Hapimag would find a similar good Head Human Resources for similar conditions within a couple of months. No big deal for Hapimag! Don’t get me wrong, I truly believe that I do a good job for Hapimag and I truly believe that Hapimag appreciates what I do for the company. But I have to face reality: I’m replaceable on the local market. If e.g. Apple is trying to find their world-wide Head Human Resources I’m just not qualified enough, I wouldn't be on their short-list. If the Washington Capitals have to replace a player e.g. like Brooks Laich, our Swiss League A-players are just not qualified enough to replace him and that’s why he makes more money than the Swiss League players and that’s why he makes more money than me. Another example: I have a scouting-mandate for the NHL. I get some money for this and I do know all these discussions about scouting-salaries are too big or too low. First of all: I’m very proud and extremely happy to be such privileged to have a scouting-job from the NHL. I do everything to please the NHL with my reports and predictions and I try to be a good ambassador for the NHL. Hopefully I can go on with this job forever. I never will ask for better conditions or something like that. You know why? First of all I feel that I get fairly paid. Second I do know that I’m replaceable. If I stop today my scouting-job for the NHL, the NHL would have already next day hundreds of candidates who want to have my job and...some of them will be as good as me or maybe even better in the long-run, nobody knows this for sure. Most of us have a certain pride in what we are doing, right so. But also most of us have the tendency to overrate our value. Coming back to Brooks Laich: He is not easy to replace, maybe a handful of candidates are on the market to make up for him. If they want to replace me as a scout, immediately hundreds of realistic candidates are waiting to take over. Again, don’t get me wrong: I’m confident enough to really believe that I’m doing a very good job for the NHL and I truly believe that I deserve to get treated with respect and loyalty – and I can assure you: The NHL is doing so. Am I in the position to point fingers to NHL-player-salaries and comparing them with my salary? Definitely not. If we agree to a liberal, capitalistic kind of world then we have to be ready to pay the price and the price is the market and the market tells about my price-tag, the price-tag of you as an employee and the price-tag of NHL-players as employees. Don't want to discuss now whether this liberal, capitalistic view of life is good or bad...but I guess, in our western world it's just more or less reality.
My clear answer is NO. Why? We have worldwide approx. 1'600'000 hockey-players and the best 0.05% of them play in the NHL and make excellent money. Let’s face it: If you belong to the worldwide best 0.05% percent of bakers, accountants, software-developers, cooks, journalists or you name it... you also will make approx. this money. My personal case: I’m the Head Human Resources of the middle-sized tourist company, Hapimag, in Switzerland. This is a great company to work for and I truly believe that I’m doing a good job for them. I get a good salary and Hapimag gets a fair ROI. I think it’s a fair deal for both sides. Although I belong to the Executive Board of this company I make much less money than a NHL-player. Is this unfair? Of course not because I have to ask myself the question: Do I belong to the worldwide best 0.05% of all Head Human Resources? To be honest: No, I don’t belong to the best 0.05% worldwide Head Human Resources. If I pass away tomorrow, Hapimag would find a similar good Head Human Resources for similar conditions within a couple of months. No big deal for Hapimag! Don’t get me wrong, I truly believe that I do a good job for Hapimag and I truly believe that Hapimag appreciates what I do for the company. But I have to face reality: I’m replaceable on the local market. If e.g. Apple is trying to find their world-wide Head Human Resources I’m just not qualified enough, I wouldn't be on their short-list. If the Washington Capitals have to replace a player e.g. like Brooks Laich, our Swiss League A-players are just not qualified enough to replace him and that’s why he makes more money than the Swiss League players and that’s why he makes more money than me. Another example: I have a scouting-mandate for the NHL. I get some money for this and I do know all these discussions about scouting-salaries are too big or too low. First of all: I’m very proud and extremely happy to be such privileged to have a scouting-job from the NHL. I do everything to please the NHL with my reports and predictions and I try to be a good ambassador for the NHL. Hopefully I can go on with this job forever. I never will ask for better conditions or something like that. You know why? First of all I feel that I get fairly paid. Second I do know that I’m replaceable. If I stop today my scouting-job for the NHL, the NHL would have already next day hundreds of candidates who want to have my job and...some of them will be as good as me or maybe even better in the long-run, nobody knows this for sure. Most of us have a certain pride in what we are doing, right so. But also most of us have the tendency to overrate our value. Coming back to Brooks Laich: He is not easy to replace, maybe a handful of candidates are on the market to make up for him. If they want to replace me as a scout, immediately hundreds of realistic candidates are waiting to take over. Again, don’t get me wrong: I’m confident enough to really believe that I’m doing a very good job for the NHL and I truly believe that I deserve to get treated with respect and loyalty – and I can assure you: The NHL is doing so. Am I in the position to point fingers to NHL-player-salaries and comparing them with my salary? Definitely not. If we agree to a liberal, capitalistic kind of world then we have to be ready to pay the price and the price is the market and the market tells about my price-tag, the price-tag of you as an employee and the price-tag of NHL-players as employees. Don't want to discuss now whether this liberal, capitalistic view of life is good or bad...but I guess, in our western world it's just more or less reality.
My 10 conclusions
for the CBA-discussions:
1. Yes, the players deserve to have every single dollar what they have in their contracts and they deserve to be paid extremely well also in the future.
1. Yes, the players deserve to have every single dollar what they have in their contracts and they deserve to be paid extremely well also in the future.
2. Yes, if we take into consideration the
history of the NHL the players derserve to have a strong NHLPA.
3. In the very end the players and the
NHLPA will remember that the owners are the bosses and the players are
employees.
4. The players will face the reality
that with the latest owner-proposal they would have a bright and save future
for the next 8-10 years in their careers and that greed is always a bad
adviser.
5. The owners will face the reality
that what they achieved so far in these discussions is a really better deal for
them than in the past and that greed is always a bad adviser.
6. The discussion will go back to the
owners and players and won’t be lost in a personal fight between Gary Bettman
and Donald Fehr. Their organizations will both tell them that they did already
do an excellent job in these negotiations – what actually is true!
7. Both, the owners and the players
will put pressure on their leaders now because it’s really time for a deal and
the substance of the differences are just too small to fight for death. The players and the owners will remember that the NHL with it's rules of trading, drafting, salary-cap and so on is a perfect role-model for all pro-sports, it's a much more clever system than European-pro-sports and it also stands for hundreds of great and thousands of very good jobs!
8. A deal needs some more small
compromises. The NHL gives in this maybe one more year (6 instead of 5) and the
NHLPA agrees to the one or the other detail.
9. Both sides will negotiate these last
details behind closed doors without media-rah-rah-rah.
10. Gary Bettman and Donald Fehr will
announce a deal and the NHL-season will start in January and both leaders will have a beer together.
Finally my personal Christmas-wisdom to the players,
owners, to myself and all the readers:
„The death
of happiness is if you have a jealous heart and you start to compare. So fight
your jealousy, be happy if you are happy and stop to be just happy if your
„neighbor“ has a bit less than you.“
Merry Christmas and make your kids happy with nice
presents, create some magic!
https://twitter.com/thomasroost
Zurich, 15 December 2012 / Thomas Roost
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