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High horse?

We talked this past week about his personal feelings regarding the collective bargaining process and what he believes will happen.

Will the league be shut down next year? “I hope not,” Hull said. “I’m trying to stay positive. If that happened, that could be the end of Brett Hull, and I don’t want that,” he says with that big Hull grin, but with a note of sheer honesty as well.

So how does the deal get done? Said Hull: “Both sides have to get off their high horses. There’s got to be some salary control for the owners. Let’s be honest — the owners have to take control of their situations. We’ve got to realize as players that our TV contract doesn’t allow revenue to come in to support the owners to pay the high salaries.

“We have to have — let’s not call it a salary cap — a number your highest player can be paid, which would be a very generous number. If you have a superstar player you want to pay that to, you can. A team doesn’t have to have a player with the salary, but they could.”

- Hull: ‘Both sides have to get off their high horses’, USAToday.com, January 1, 2004.

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