Don't be so hard on yourself, OldNY. You're a smart man. You just ended up in the wrong industry. You easily coulda did a better job than the previous leaf management team over the last 50+ yrs.. most of us could have

The youth of today are wrecking everything... same as they've been doing for last 10,000 yrs..

I see what you are saying but I disagree. This may or may not be an issue for the PA. I tend to agree with you that it is. But it is also an issue for owners. One of the lesser reasons for the salary cap was caused by players who hadn’t ever played an nhl games making ridiculous demands. The elc and rfa system is in place to help teams develop and sign their prospects. Ufa players are asking for moon and so are rfa. Only enough of the pie to go around. I think the owners will want a solution to rfa contracts and hold out as much or even more than the PA

The owners may want a solution to the RFA contracts but at the end of the day they have their 50% and while it would be nice for the owners to have some thing figured out, they will eventually just say to the PA "this is a you issue, figure it out".

Not sure goes further than that as it pertains to owners.

Lockout........right. So based on past history the leafs sign there guys to bonus heavy contracts. If Mitch signs now he gets paid next year during the lockout, if he sits he misses this years payday and the 9 million or so that he would get next July 1st.

Mitch will sign.

Hang in there Kyle!!!!!

CBA runs out in 3 years.