So let me get this straight, the common view around here is that every proposal, suggestion, framework, and idea put forth by the devil Bob Goodenow is only surface bargaining, just an attempt to avoid impasse? The rollback, the two-way arbitration, the lowering QO's, luxury tax, agreement to a salary cap, it's all just a trick? No one even knows what the union will present at the next meeting, but have already dismissed it as an evil tactic?
Do you have any idea how ridiculous you sound spewing this?
If the league wants to declare impasse, go ahead. The onus is on the league to prove that it is in fact impasse and they have bargained in good faith the whole way along. The NLRB can reject the impasse if there are not sufficient grounds. They cannot punish the NHLPA for "surface bargaining", or whatever you want to call it, by letting the implementation go through when impasse has not been reached.
You're somehow all waiting for the day when the NLRB says "we don't like Bob Goodenow and he was being tricky, so Gary gets whatever he wants!" It ain't gonna happen.