gerbilanium
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- Oct 17, 2003
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IT was a little fishy how they seemed to be outraged so suddenly on something so minor like being compared to the auto workers union.
Could this be the PA just doing their job? Have they been told by the membership to get the best deal they can THIS YEAR? Last minute posturing before signing on the dotted line?
Ask yourself this question: Why did the NHL players' union, specifically Trevor Linden, seem at the very least neutral following a meeting with the league last Thursday, then appear utterly outraged 24 hours later with key members of the executive committee angrily declaring the season to be over?
Sounds a little strategic, wouldn't you say?
Given that rhetoric and bombast have dominated this entire process but never fail to have people believing it reflects the true state of negotiations, one shouldn't be surprised that the players delivered a staged gloom-and-doom message last Friday.
They then had all their carefully groomed media personnel echo that message over the past three days in the most strident terms possible.
On Friday, the players were simply endeavouring to solicit the league's best offer with another round of chest-thumping.
They know they've lost. They just need an honourable way to save face.
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Could this be the PA just doing their job? Have they been told by the membership to get the best deal they can THIS YEAR? Last minute posturing before signing on the dotted line?
Ask yourself this question: Why did the NHL players' union, specifically Trevor Linden, seem at the very least neutral following a meeting with the league last Thursday, then appear utterly outraged 24 hours later with key members of the executive committee angrily declaring the season to be over?
Sounds a little strategic, wouldn't you say?
Given that rhetoric and bombast have dominated this entire process but never fail to have people believing it reflects the true state of negotiations, one shouldn't be surprised that the players delivered a staged gloom-and-doom message last Friday.
They then had all their carefully groomed media personnel echo that message over the past three days in the most strident terms possible.
On Friday, the players were simply endeavouring to solicit the league's best offer with another round of chest-thumping.
They know they've lost. They just need an honourable way to save face.
Here