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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…
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The Doom and Gloom that Sells
I don’t know if you heard about this, but the My Little Pony cartoon is very popular these days. They have a following of men called Bronies, and even their own convention called BronyCon. No kidding. I thought about this when I saw the headline ‘Industry insider: “We will not play next year”‘ over at…
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Still Think There Won’t Be a Lockout?
Last week, I wrote a post saying that I didn’t believe the NHL would see another lockout this year (with the caveat that they might lose the preseason, which wouldn’t be a loss in my books). That was before the media reported on what the owners initial proposal was. From Puck Daddy: Renaud P. Lavoie…