Hockey became a business. Now there are twelve teams and the good players from the original six are scattered all over the league. Team talent was watered down and competition to get the good players caused a few million dollar contracts to be signed. Another expansion happened. Millionaires and billionaires own them - businesses own them.
Players are no longer players - they are assets.
We invented what I consider to be the greatest game in the world. Todays players think they work when they play. They don't know what work is. I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking that they are ridiculously overpaid for playing a game that most of us love to do for nothing. I can picture them talking about how six million is just not enough.