Vancouver Canucks Goalie Cory Schneider Frustrated with Limitless Lockout -NHL Update
The National Hockey League (NHL) has gone over two months, but there still is not any regular season on the cards as the lockout persists. Vancouver Canucks goalie Cory Schneider, usually being not as vocal as his colleagues on a number of issues, decided
that enough was enough.
With over 60 days just gone in waste, Cory Schneider has reached his boiling point on the issue and is on the verge of his frustration as the league and Players’ Association are still deadlocked on a number of key issues. According to him, the labour union
has been making the sacrificing and compromising since day one, while the league just sits back, declines every proposal and does nothing to show any productivity from their side.
“They haven’t even given us a pension plan that would cost them $5 million US over the course of the deal and that would actually be a concession, but they refused to do so,” said the Vancouver Canucks goalie, according to theprovince.com. “To us, we need
to stop this cycle of them not giving up anything to get everything they want. In five or six years, we don’t want to see another lockout and we want to solve future labour problems.”
Contractual issues, lessening the deals with players, eliminating arbitration along with a number of other wants from the league’s side is just making players look more like puppets with the league running the show.
“It’s their lockout and they know exactly what they want and what they need,” added Schneider
Schneider is a native of Marblehead, Massachusetts, United States, and was picked up by Vancouver Canucks with their 26th overall pick back in round-one of the 2004 NHL Entry Draft. He finished off his fourth straight season with the major league
franchise this past hockey year and is now set to take centre stage with main goalie, Roberto Luongo, pretty much out of the scene.
Vancouver locked up the youngster to a three-year, $12 million deal this offseason, showing their willingness to give the goalie much more than he was making in his previous deal ($900,000 a year) in order to take control of the goaltending side of affairs.
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