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How to End Lockouts Forever
The US Government is staring down a self-imposed financial hellhole called the fiscal cliff. Jon Stewart described it as launching an asteroid at yourself so you have to blow it up, just so you will finally have to learn how to destroy asteroids. I personally advocate the NHL launching asteroids at themselves. Figuratively, of course.…
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I Don’t Want to Talk About It
There are three kinds of hockey we can talk about: Hockey I can see, hockey I can’t see, and the lockout, which is to say, no hockey at all. And I want to talk about hockey. Of course I don’t like the lockout, but what really annoys me is that we’ve heard and read everything…
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The More Things Change
Going into the latest CBA negotiations, we heard a familiar refrain from the last time the league imposed a lockout: some teams will lose less money not playing the season than they will if they do play. Which says a lot about the NHL and it’s business. Can you imagine if you ran a small…
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Slip of the Lip
I’m fascinated that hockey fans can’t get their heads around how much the players make. Much of the discontent with the NHLPA and their decision to not take what is being offered seems to be revolve around the dollar figures many of the top players receive for their efforts, and why they don’t take the…
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Fehr Blindsided Us All
Nobody saw this coming. Certainly not the gloom and doom crowd, and not the nay-sayers, predicting a lockout when the NHLPA hired it’s current boss. The moment Donald Fehr was brought into the Player’s Association, a lockout looked all but certain to most fans. But even the optimists like myself had no idea what was…