NHL ’s lockout September 16‚ 2004 the National Hockey League had a labour dispute that led to a lockout. The dispute was about the end of the collective bargaining agreement (CBA). The National Football League has a working salary cap for the teams in their league. NHL is trying to establish the same type of system that the NFL has. The negotiation between the NHL Players association and the NHL did not come easy. The disagreements were that NHL clubs spent too much on player ’s salary. The
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Discrimination Jessica Marasco 0348583 Dr. Michel Johnson KINE 1010 11/05/07 The film "The Rocket" is the biographical story of hockey legend Maurice Richard‚ that uses sports to highlight historical bigotry. The movie highlights the discrimination that faced French Canadians at the time of Richard’s hockey career. This caused Richard to be torn between his desire to play hockey‚ and the pressure to give voice to an emerging nationalism. The movie depicts the sociological theme of French Canadian discrimination
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an ongoing labor dispute on the expiration of the NHL’s collective bargaining agreement. The lockout began less than a month earlier to the scheduled beginning of the 2012–13 NHL season. The owners confirmed a lockout of the members of the National Hockey League Players ’ Association after a new agreement could not be met before their deadline. The NHL 2012-13 is the 96th season. It was scheduled to begin on October 11‚ 2012 but is currently delayed‚ and as a result a total of 326 games have been canceled
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than their male counterparts‚ but men experience pay differentials between each other in some sports. In male dominated sports‚ such as hockey‚ baseball‚ and basketball‚ there is a variation in an individual’s salary that adversely affects the team’s performance and vice versa. In a capitalist society‚ everybody is paid what their work is worth. Sports such as hockey‚ basketball‚ and baseball are pay-for performance sports‚ in that the players are paid what their skills are worth to the team. The less
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If you had to write a fair and true story of a hockey game between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings you would have to describe exactly happened. VS. “The Leafs were so lucky on Saturday. The superb and skillful Wings players were beaten by the lucky‚ cheating Leafs players. The referee was totally biased. He allowed five goals that were all offside. I have never seen so much luck and cheating.” This story of a hockey game was written by a Detroit Red Wings fan when
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The Chicago Blackhawks are a professional ice hockey team based in Chicago‚ Illinois. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). They have won four Stanley Cup Championships and fourteen division titles since their founding in 1926. Since 1994‚ the Blackhawks have played their home games at the United Center afterhaving spent 65 years playing at Chicago Stadium.Currently‚ they are the defending Stanley Cup champions‚having
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events such as hockey games‚ where people are expected to hit and make body contact‚ sooner or later a fight will break out and the fans will yell and scream for their favorite player involved. Like anything‚ if people around us are applauding us for a certain act we have done‚ we will try to do it over so that we will continue to be praised. In sports‚ there are some players whose only role on the team is to protect and enforce the unwritten rules of the game such as in hockey where it
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The economics of sport is a rather wide field. It spreads across analyses of the demand for sport‚ cost-benefit analyses of sporting events and sporting venues‚ the local public finance implications of these same events and venues‚ sporting governance (meaning labor-management relations‚ organizational models of team or individual sports events as well as professional leagues)‚ the business and finance of professional leagues‚ wage determination‚ labour market discrimination‚ trade in the sporting
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Indian games like hockey‚ kabaddi‚ kushti have been relegated to a bygone era. Even international sports like tennis‚ badminton and football have not been shown any mercy despite us being so “West-crazy”. We hail cricket as the be all and end all of all sports. Hockey‚ time and again has shown features of atavism. This so called National Sport of India has shown the most inconsistent progress‚ if it can actually be called progress. There was a time when India did win the Hockey World Cup in 1975
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I am currently in a communications class‚ and we are studying the importance of informative speaking. An informative speech is written to provide interesting and useful information to increase the knowledge of the audience. An effective informative speech is created by thinking about the different ways the audience will process the information that is being given‚ conveying this information to the audience‚ and relaying the importance of the information being given. People process information
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