Donald Fehr
Donald Fehr
Donald Martin Fehr is the executive director of the National Hockey League Players Association. He became nationally prominent while serving as the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association from 1985 to 2009...
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I do not expect to hear some of the kinds of things that sometimes we've heard in the past about widespread financial distress. We'll see. It's not up to me.
increased revenue
I don't see a need for increased revenue sharing.
It's like a lot of things. I thought that most of what you read was probably significantly overblown.
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There is that. And the timing issue is the single most difficult one that there is. The way we got to this time period is by considering all the other ones and deciding they all had bigger problems than this one did.
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There's an issue as to whether or not clubs are using revenue-sharing receipts in an appropriate way.
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The fiscal and economic landscape is not at this point equivalent to what it was in 2001 and '02. And obviously, when you go into bargaining, you deal with what is, not with what used to be. The clubs have made a lot of comments in virtually all of our negotiations about distressed economic conditions. I will be very surprised if we hear very much of that this time.
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All of the years when people said the relationship was bad, it never was as bad as they said. Now when people say it?s wonderful, it?s not as good as everyone says. There are issues that are in need of working out in a businesslike manner. Hopefully it will lead to harmonious bargaining, but you just can?t tell.
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The economics of the industry are good. But my ability to predict what happens in negotiations over the last 25 years has not been good.
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The kind of activity we've seen so far in certain respects is encouraging.
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The Olympics, you have to remember, is an event onto itself; it's unlike anything else. It's a multisport event, you have people from all over the world and it has its own special charm, its own special issues. But it's distinct from anything else.
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You go through the Sporting News for the last one hundred years, and you will find two things are always true. You never have enough pitching, and nobody ever made money.
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Don't expect people to behave perfectly-after all, they are people, with all of the faults and frailties of the human condition.
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After the hearings on the House side in March and after receiving the commissioner's letter (re tougher penalties), we had discussions both before and after. There was an agreement that it would be unfair to change the deal in the middle of the season. I then sent the tapes of the (March) hearings to the players. I had an obligation to meet with them all, which I did.
We always thought it was out of line. Were we surprised? No.