Going to be seeing Berlin Polar Bears play on Nov. 24.... only time I'll be rooting for Giroux and Briere... but here's to hoping they'll be back in the US by then...

Going to be seeing Berlin Polar Bears play on Nov. 24.... only time I'll be rooting for Giroux and Briere... but here's to hoping they'll be back in the US by then...
- mrhattrick27

Bring me back a Klode jersey!

Bring me back a Klode jersey!
- BulliesPhan87

Me too

Kiss the season goodbye?


Darren Dreger ‏@DarrenDreger

NHL remains firm, willing to negotiate with the PA by only working off NHL offer tabled last Tues. NHL wants next meeting to be an end pt.

"You can't piss in their face and tell them it's raining," was how one veteran player agent described the mood of his clients.

http://www.sportsnet.ca/h..._cba_not_all_about_money/

Sixers finish preseason 6-1 all without Big By
- Crimsoninja

Keyword right there...


Lakers are 0-6 this preseason, so yeah.

Chris Johnston ‏@reporterchris

After executive board call, the NHLPA has requested a meeting with the NHL for tomorrow.

Chris Johnston ‏@reporterchris

After executive board call, the NHLPA has requested a meeting with the NHL for tomorrow.
- ob18

If the players are asinine like they were last week, we might as well just look forward to G and Briere in Germany, and watching Schenn and Cooter dominate in the A

If the players are asinine like they were last week, we might as well just look forward to G and Briere in Germany, and watching Schenn and Cooter dominate in the A
- Giroux_Is_God

I have no idea what it means or if they'll even talk CBA.

If the players are asinine like they were last week, we might as well just look forward to G and Briere in Germany, and watching Schenn and Cooter dominate in the A
- Giroux_Is_God

How were the players asinine last week?

If the players are asinine like they were last week, we might as well just look forward to G and Briere in Germany, and watching Schenn and Cooter dominate in the A
- Giroux_Is_God

I see Frank Luntz has accomplished his goal.

How were the players asinine last week?
- MJL

Apparently they should have had a key made that unlocks the owners' lock.

So sick of this. The owners, for the third time since 1994, have locked out the players. The NHLPA was willing to play *while* negotiations were underway - a stance that Fehr stated as early as early summer, IIRC.

The owners, who claimed (via Gary Bettman's mouth) to have achieved cost certainty after wiping out the 2004-05 season, are now actually led by eight owners and Bettman. This group is maintaining a hardline stance and somehow getting people to think that the NHLPA is unwilling to negotiate.

The owners, via their GM's, are to blame for escalating salaries.
The owners are not willing to pay the players the very contracts that THEY drew up themselves.
The owners have allowed Gary Bettman to lead the NHL needing only eight owners to ally themselves with him, no matter the differences of opinion of the other 22. Two of these teams, NJ and Phoenix, are operated by the NHL!
The owners have allowed the league to over-expand and move into markets not commercially successful or viable.
The players are willing to meet the NHL at their demands of 50/50, but will do so over time. NHL wants it all right now. The NHL is more responsible for this situation.

Chris Johnston ‏@reporterchris

After executive board call, the NHLPA has requested a meeting with the NHL for tomorrow.
- ob18

And the NHL has denied that request for a meeting.

And the NHL has denied that request for a meeting.
- MJL

Is this a (frank)ing joke?

How do they expect to NEGOTIATE a deal acting like this?

This is ridiculous. Both "sides" are scum

And the NHL has denied that request for a meeting.
- MJL

Nightsoil Hockey League

Nightsoil Hockey League
- Flyskippy