Money Players
By Bruce Dowbiggin
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Novel Overview
Money Players
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. Having
succeeded in
disgracing Alan Eagleson as director of the union, Goodenow used strikes and hardball negotiations
to push up player salaries. While players got rich, owners said Goodenow ignored the overall health
of the game. By 2005, furious owners were crying foul. Citing the dismal state of
NHL finances, the
owners demanded a salary cap. Goodenow refused—resulting in a 103-day lockout. When the NHL
and the players union finally settled, Goodenow was-by an amazing twist of fate—out of a job and
the union was badly divided. The owners got their salary cap, but at what long-term cost to the
sport? There was only one real loser: the fan. Money Players is not a fuzzy pink valentine to the
game that is played on the ice; it’s a bare-knuckles brawl of a book about how the real game has
been played behind closed doors between rich execs 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.