Don’t Get Excited: (TSN)
Nuclear Legal War: (Hockey Prospectus)
Battle of Hockey SuperPowers:(The Province)
USA Roster Finalized: (TSN)
Drunken Hockey Fights: (Coastline Pilot)
No one in Detroit pays taxes, not even a guy that owns half the town:(Deadspin)
Again….Please:(USA)
We have heard your chants before: (TSN)
The waiting game sucks…Lets play Hungry Hungry Hippos: (CBC)
Another Victim of the lockout: (Edmonton Journal)
They just want more: (Vancouver Province)
Another Kane forced to apologize: (TSN)
Screw it..Maybe Canada can save hockey: (AUTOPLAY)
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)
Ugh, a Heart reference. You can tell that I’m at the end of my rope.
With the NHL and NHLPA heading into a second consecutive day of negotiating, which breaks the record of this lockout by at least 100%, and on pretty much a media blackout (though you’ll get leaks here and there), it’s a little hard to know what to think and what is actually going on. I’ll do my best to pass along how I’m seeing things, and you can tell me I’m totally wrong in the comments.
First things first, one aspect I’ve been getting slightly wrong is how the “make-whole” provision would work, why it’s necessary, why they’re arguing about it, and how it’s different from normal escrow. Yep, I’m going to admit I’m wrong. You’d think this would happen more considering how often I am wrong. But yeah, totally admitting a degree of wrong-ness. My girlfriend will be so thrilled.
Kaner’s bringing his wingmom: (PD)
Toews and Kane spoke to Myers about the lockout: (CSNChi)
If they want to stay in the K they can stay in the K… kind of: (PHT)
For once moving a hockey team south kind of makes sense: (NYI)
Down Goes Brown looks at both the good and bad signs in the negotiation process: (DGB)
None of the lockout news coming out today, and what little of it there is, will encourage you. And the dearth of it simply makes me sick. I’m sure I’m not the only one.
Locally, Patrick Kane is the first big-name Hawk to jump the pond and head overseas (sorry Bicks and Stals and Fro). He has signed with EHC Biel of the Swiss League, probably so he once again pants a team that either Rick Nash or Joe Thornton is on. Oh my god, do you have to check out the Team Page for them, as they’re all done up to look like extras in 300 in hockey pads.
Biel is already sporting Marc-Antoine Pouliot and Tyler Seguin (see how he sticks out on that roster page). I’m sure Seguin and Kane will in no way lay to waste whatever they find in front of them in the Swiss League. It’ll probably feel like London all over again for Kaner.
What does it mean?
