On Tuesday, our favorite mental midget and the NHL put forth a revised proposal for the NHLPA (players’ association). While details weren’t officially released, it is said that the new proposal increases the players’ revenue sharing from the earlier proposed 43 percent, to 51.6 percent in the first year, and then slowly declines each year after that. Furthermore, no rollbacks on existing contracts would have to take place. The salary cap would start off at $58 million in 2012-2013, and could increase up to $71 million in 2017-2018, as it would be a six year deal.

There’s no word about whether or not any other details from this recent proposal… specifically, if limiting player / team contracts to 5 years, not allowing a player to become an unrestricted free agent until he has played in the league for 10 years, etc … are still part of it. We’re sure things like this, that might seem minor, will be large negotiation points moving forward.

Buttman and Donald Fehr – the NHLPA’s executive director – are scheduled to meet again today, August 29th. We’ll see what happens.

We like user RedCent’s idea and comment on our previous post… “the players accept the 47 % revenue sharing on the condition that Bettman step down immediately”. Amen.

Here’s hoping to a Bettman-less 2012-2013 season!!!

If you haven’t already heard, Judge Redfield T. Baum ruled this past Monday evening against Jim Balsillie and his bid to purchase the Phoenix Coyotes from Jerry Moyes for $212 million, and move the team to Hamilton, OT. The Judge said that Balsillie’s decision deadline of June 29th did not give enough time to completely cover and rule on the whole case.

Balsillie isn’t giving up, however… even though his battle might be a tougher one than trying to make ice in a desert. Balsillie is going to submit another motion to the court, to purchase the team and hopefully enter mediation with the NHL.

So what do we all and Jim Balsillie do? SEND AN EMAIL TO GARY BETTMAN AND FLOOD HIS INBOX!!!!!!!!!!! We are working with Jim Balsillie and his MakeItSeven campaign to send the little commish as many emails as possible.

Simply fill out the form below and hit submit, and the message below will be sent to Gary Bettman!!!!!:

As many of you know, Jim Balsillie has a web site to promote his iniative to buy the Phoenix Coyotes and move them to Hamilton, Ontario… the site is http://www.makeitseven.ca. Jim and his team there send out email messages a few times a week, which we will start posting here on FB… because we support his mission! Here is the email sent out today by MakeItSeven:

To all our Make It Seven Supporters,

Tell it to the Judge!

We need everyone who supports an NHL franchise in Hamilton to let the Phoenix bankruptcy court Judge know. And it’s easy to do.

Tuesday June 9 is a critical court hearing to determine whether the Coyotes can be relocated when they’re sold out of bankruptcy.

We need some evidence for the Judge – evidence of bigger, stronger and deeper numbers of Hamilton backers.

We need you to use our “Tell a Friend” feature to get your neighbours, co-workers, family and friends to sign up to Makeitseven.ca.

Do it today. Do it now. We need to pull together. We need to tell it to the Judge.

Make It Seven.

In other very related news, a Toronto investment group – The Toronto Legacy Group – has put forth a proposal/bid for another NHL team in Toronto. The group says they already have around $900 million in financing available, and want to name the team the Toronto Legacy. We’re wondering if this is a joke…. but we guess if Los Angeles can “support” two teams, Toronto shouldn’t have a problem. However, we’d rather see the next team in Hamilton, or another city in Canada.