Great piece this morning from the Edmonton Journal's John MacKinnon. Couldn't have said it better myself:

These are players said to be infinitely better educated under the regime of NHLPA executive director Bob Goodenow than players were under his predecessor, the scabrous Alan Eagleson. Yet their pronouncements and actions suggest they're inconsistent if not incoherent about the economic reality they have lived so lavishly under. Not to mention the more austere reality that must come if the 30-team league is to survive.
For example, the players preach solidarity and say they fear a salary cap system would mean an end to guaranteed contracts. And they're having none of it, even as they travel across the ocean to hip -check European-based players out of their contracts which pay substantially less than the NHLers would earn under the cap system they so adamantly oppose.
Of course, some members of the NHLPA leadership aren't playing anywhere, and why would theyIf you were Vincent Damphousse, accumulated career salary $35 million, or Trevor Linden ($30 million), Chris Pronger ($48 million) or Bill Guerin ($32 million), would you uproot yourself to, say, Lulea, Sweden, and put your 30-something body at risk for peanutsOf course not. You'd soak in your Jacuzzi until the lockout ended.
But if modestly paid grinders like Pierre Dagenais or Mike Commodore-players in actual need of the more earthbound salaries they earn-should dare suggest that a cap system might not be hell on earth, well, an odious wave of peer pressure silences them.