Everybody got excited in 1997 and then they got smacked in the face, ... They won't go back for another round when that happens. ... If every time you went to McDonald's there was someone there who threw water in your face, you wouldn't go back, either.
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It's not a magnet as in all of a sudden the Carolina Hurricanes will spend 49 million. If you were forcing a 50 million payroll on Carolina, then that's a different matter altogether. You're talking about a league that had 2.1 billion in revenue in its last season. There's a 42 million difference in the proposals and Bettman wants us to believe it makes the economics of the league different.
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