The two side for the NHL lockout met this past week. Well sort of. They banned Bettman and Goodenow from the meetings. They really wanted to make the talks more friendly so they hung out in an airport lounge the first day. Clearly, there are people on both sides that are starting to piss themselves since they realized that the general public either has moved on with their lives or hasn't yet noticed there is no hockey. Bill Daly was there for the NHL owners, and Trevor Linden was there for the players. Nice of them to finally get around to doing this around the time the ALL- Star game should have been played.
Supposedly, there is a scheudule made up of as many as 37 games and as few as 24 in case things get worked out. There might be times when the teams could play 3 games in 4 nights. The players said they would be ready to go if things got together that quick.
However, having a meeting without the big guys there isn't likely to move either side anywhere. Sadly, I think just as much came out of the talk Duke and I had about the lockout at SHarkeys a few weeks ago than what came out of their friendly meeting. Maybe, when both sides finally run out of money they might actually give a damn about the game.
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Unions, including sports unions, always mess things up.
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