Newsguyone said:
My guess is that Goodenow and the PA's attorneys have info we don't have.
They must know that several teams are incapable of a long lockout, or they must know that the NHL will pursue the impasse route and must be confident that the NHL is going to lose big.
While pride is one of the things keeping the players onside, it's probably not part of Goodenow's mindset.
It better not be. If they are banking simply on that, then they are in big trouble.
Either way, the league is screwed for the next ten years.
I hope the league has lots of clean needles available for all the steroids they're going to need to resurrect the game.
I do not see how the NHL will lose big with the US labour board(as JD pointed out 3/5 on the board are Republicans which means the PA might be up the impasse creek without a labour paddle)
President Bush in his State of the Union address said that a lot of fans are going to be disappointed if the MLB labour dispute does not get resolved.
Hockey does not have a ‘Bush’ who can put a lot of political pressure and scrutiny on both sides.
Paul Martin might be that man, but Martin is not even on the US radar and his influence is quite limited in the NHL(and the world) as only a handful of NHL teams are located in Canada.
O yes that is just what the NHL needs to get all of the players on the ‘Juice’
Does anyone think that all 730 players in the NHL are ‘clean’?
Players need to be retrained to open up the game so that the overall skill of the game can be exponentially increased and return to pre-Great One trade levels.
Steroids will only result in even more GOONS debuting in the NHL, and I do not see how that is going to sell that game in the US markets.
10 years even worse then the past decade has been for the game? I thought the NHL has hit rock bottom and could not possibly get any worst.
5 years(from this cancelled season) should see the game regaining some of its once solid footing as there will be 7 years worth of draft choices to replace most of the unrulies and skill-less players that have plagued the NHL for the past decade.
As for the PA(original thread topic) no one, including the players, can understand the stance they have decided to take in this lockout.
Standing on your principles might be good if you are also standing on reality and reason.