t looks like Gary Bettman and Donald Fehr might be able to agree on something after all: not to talk. It's not only ironic. It's sad.
While the NHL owners and players claim to be serious in their proclamations—now some 60 days into the lockout—neither side is willing to make any real concessions. We need to be clear about this. Bettman, Fehr, Leipold and Crosby are engaged in a pantomime.
They are pretending to mean something, microphones in their sad little faces, drafts of contracts on their table, their ridiculous numbers—57%, 46%, 50%—in hand, but they're actually offering nothing. It's worse than nothing. It's a percentage of nothing. If they want to solve this lockout, they need to hire an arbitrator to do it for them.
Both sides are to blame. None of those involved in this dispute deserve empathy simply because they elected to have idle summer vacations. I'm sorry. Did I say idle? I'm wrong about that. The owners actually did engage in a spree of free agent signings, including Minnesota Wild owner Craig Leipold's outrageous signings of Zach Parise and Ryan Suter at $98 million apiece.
The players are no be ...
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NHL’s Gary Bettman and Donald Fehr Looking to Agree…On Not to Talk?
November 16th, 2012 by Don Gibson Leave a reply »
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