Once a Kings Fan Too
Joined: Jun. 2018
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It's time to abandon the hallucination that this season can somehow be completed, with or without the playoffs. Such an effort would only de-legitimize not just this year but 2020-2021, too, because it would require truncating the off-season egregiously. The draft combine, the draft itself, the free-agency period and an adequate-length training camp are all more important to the health of the sport than the rest of 2019-2020.
I think that a "compliance buyout" is inevitable because the owners will seize any opportunity to save money in the face of the enormous loss of revenue caused by the shut-down. I think that most teams will vote for it even if it helps some teams (e.g., Tampa and Vancouver) more than others (Anaheim, Boston, Los Angeles). I wonder what the vote has to be for this idea to carry -- 3/4? 2/3? It can't be a simple majority.