Gary at 20: (TSN)
Actually he isn’t doing a bad job: (The Province)
Call the NBA for help: (CBC)
But talks will resume: (Winnipeg Free Press)
Young Man’s Game: (Edmonton Journal)
Constructive Day but could this be Entrapment? (Chicago Tribune) (Spector’s Hockey)
Saving the Hockey World like James Bond:(Sportsnet)
Merchants near NHL rinks are losing money like The Great Train Robbery: (TSN)
Will an angry owner speak out, Never say Never..again:(Toronto Sun)
Players are paying for mistakes like a team in the Valley of the Rising Sun:(Sportsnet)
Adventures in Team Travel like going to The Rock: (Backhand Shelf)
From Russia with Love?? An unlikely Gordie Howe Hattrick:(CJAD)
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)
It’s even got an “Ask The Ice Crew”! Yep, the lockout’s gone long enough that we’re starting to cycle in our old stand-bys!
A lot of people, mostly outside our strange little world, were trying to draw connections between the NHL lockout and that of the NFL referees. However, the issues were very different. The refs were locked out over disputes over pensions and job security. In that sense, the NFL referee lockout was much closer to the teachers’ strike than it was the NHL Lockout.
But the furor over it this week and the resolution last night was an excellent demonstration of why it sometimes hurts to be a cult/niche sport, even though that’s part of the attraction for a lot of us.
It feels like it’s been years since we last did one of these. Probably because it has been. But with the new digs it felt like the right time to bring it back. We got the best and brightest….well, we got the Hawks bloggers who talk to us to discuss the issues of the day. Jeff Bartl from Cheer The Anthem.com, Forklift And Cieslak from Hockeenight.com, Chris Block from The Third Man In.com came out of his Fortress-like lair to chip in (if you’ve seen Fortress, this is a very funny image. Random intestination!), and we even somehow located The Fifth Feather. Let’s see what the boys have to say.
