Mission:Impossible: (TSN)
For a Few Good Men this is their third lockout: (Sportsnet.CA)
Some fans are Losing it on the players:(Reddit)
Interview with the Vampire or Criminal: (Sportsnet)
The new OHL fighting rules are Far and Away an improvement:(Backhand Shelf)
Some Outsider hacked Guy Serota’s Twitter: (SN)
A look at the Top Gun’s that retired after the last lockout: (Down Goes Brown)
The Union might be about to get a bit Psycho: (Globe and Mail)
Hopefully the season isn’t lost in the Rear Window: (Sportsnet)
Gary clearly doesn’t have Vertigo: (CBC)
One Owner is optimistic that this season hasnt gone to the Birds: (Montreal Gazette)
These jerseys may leave other teams Spellbound: (Puck Daddy)
It’s our second NHL-less weekend, and before we get to what you can do to fill the time — though not with anything wholesome or actually useful because who the fuck wants to do that? — let’s try and clear up some of the gloom and doom.
You have to look past the publicity stunts that abound in this negotiation right now. And it’s all publicity stunts. As evil it was, you kind of have to marvel at how the NHL was able to turn the PR war on it’s head in the span of what felt like seven minutes. But walking out of a meeting after less than an hour isn’t going to help anything, and nor is having your barely literate union members take to twitter to try and nail themselves to the cross.
In the end, both sides have gotten to a 50-50 split, and both have offered to get there next year. They may argue how to and what comes along with it, and maybe those obstacles are bigger than they seem. But the NHLPA’s “3rd” proposal and the NHL’s last really aren’t all that far apart, considering where both sides started from. And while there won’t be any news this weekend most likely, just like there’s been every time they’re not actually meeting there will be back-channel phone calls and conversations, and that’s kind of where the real work gets done.
Anyway, the viewing:
It’s now officially our first NHL-less weekend. I won’t be navigating the fucking Red Carpet Ceremony trying to peddle Indians while suburban people look at me weird and the Ice Crew takes pictures on my spot. Oh how I’ll miss that. Anywho, what’s out there as alternates?
Hello Friends..
You may remember me from such names as ChelisChili7 from SCH. Well since he has officially passed another DeutschBank test and I felt like using my real name, here I am. I also used to be Ken Oda’s bitch for a now-defunct Junior Hockey team. Which involved a lot of unnecessary stat keeping and keeping the Jameson stocked.
The Great One is optimistic:(TSN)
Is the NHL Naive on steroids?(SN)
Hockee Night Puckcast:(HN)
Can Pat LaFontaine save hockey on the Island?:(TSUN)
Oiler fans weren’t considered:(GnM)
ESPN will broadcast hockey after all:(PD)
Ryan Kesler is far behind in his recovery:(PHT)
The latest round of CBA negotiations:(DGB)
So yeah I’m the new links guy, I’ll try not to suck. I was a life long Chicago guy, until six weeks ago when I moved to Minot, North Dakota to work for a junior team. I miss 5 a.m. bars… oh and my family.
I’m just shocked the kid’s parents aren’t trying to sue… (PD)
Zawzer takes a look at Barch’s drunken twitter poetry (RLD)
Because the lockout needs a Robin Hood figure? (PHT)
Daley and Fehr speak (NHL.com)
Oh yeah and something good for Hawks fans that has to do with hockey that is actually being played (BTN)
