Here are some more player quotes, from the LA TIMES.
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"To be this close, they have to make a deal. It would be disgraceful to cancel the season," said Mighty Duck forward Mike Leclerc. "If that happened, it would let down the fans, the players, everyone involved."
Said New Jersey Devil forward Jeff Friesen: "We have to get the game going again, at this point. If we cancel the season, who knows if we will ever be able to recover."
"We went further than the union has ever gone," free-agent forward Travis Green said, "maybe further than I wanted to go."
"A deal has to get done," veteran winger Teemu Selanne said after working out at Disney Ice in Anaheim on Tuesday.
"We have agreed to a cap. They agreed to take out the linkage. We're talking the same thing now. All it is now is agreeing on the right numbers."