LA Times: Linden and Gartner met with Bettman in NY Thursday

[TonySCV]

Where there's smoke...

"Sources said Trevor Linden, president of the NHL Players' Assn., and Mike Gartner, the union's director of business relations, met with Bettman in New York on Thursday while players expressed concern about the failed negotiations to the union's Toronto office."

http://www.latimes.com/sports/hocke...,1,7747178.story?coll=la-headlines-sports-nhl

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[Drury_Sakic]

What!

 

[GKJ]

"Daly said that after the emotional letdown triggered by the announcement Wednesday, employees at the NHL's office were in better spirits Thursday than they had been for a while. He attributed that to "what's gone on in the last week to 10 days, that [the union] came off the salary-cap thing, and that was the big gorilla in the room forever. And the fact that they are willing to negotiate over one now gives people hope, and gives me hope, that we're closer now than we've ever been to having a deal that can work."

Hmmm...Bettman said that they weren't close at all...

 

[Nordik_19]

"Daly said that after the emotional letdown triggered by the announcement Wednesday, employees at the NHL's office were in better spirits Thursday than they had been for a while. He attributed that to "what's gone on in the last week to 10 days, that [the union] came off the salary-cap thing, and that was the big gorilla in the room forever. And the fact that they are willing to negotiate over one now gives people hope, and gives me hope, that we're closer now than we've ever been to having a deal that can work."

Hmmm...Bettman said that they weren't close at all...

That they weren't close as everyone thought.