Mayor of MacAppolis said:
What has Bettman done that is bargaining in bad faith? He has gagged the owners, which is a good thing. Nobody should be speaking out of turn. The players are shooting from the lip like drunken cowboys at the saloon. The NHLPA is the one that has continually been bargaining in bad faith and in ways that are prolonging settlement.
Do you have any idea what bargaining in bad faith is? What has the NHL done to bargain in bad faith, let me see, the NLRB would view all of the following bargaining in bad faith.
1. They have not tabled a formal proposal since negotiations started, 6 one paragraph concepts are not proposals
2. Like it or not the union has made 2 proposals, neither the league has offered a counter proposal
3. Take it or leave it bargaining is a huge no no. Negotiation is just that. The NLRB demands that both sides come to the table with the clear intent on give and take to get an agreement
4. Proposing items that are mandatory subjects of bargaining that are designed to frustrate the process of bargaining is a no no. They like to refer to this as surface bargaining.
5. It is highly illegal not to provide the books when you start screaming financial circumstance. This does not mean the Levitt report, the PA is entitled under law to the real books. Oh and if the owners want to go to impasse they're goona have to cough up with the real books to the NLRB
6. The league has already been taken to the board over there lack of providing a list of locked out players
Add it all up you get bad faith. The players are playing by all the labor laws.