The Los Angeles Times (reg. required) has an excellent piece that is headlined Forecast: Ice Cold. What is becoming very apparent is this "The league is willing to cut a business that became a $2.1-billion industry to $1 billion and grow it back again." Exactly, and precisely why the NHLPA can't win. The owners are rich guys, most clubs are saving money by not playing, and if this becomes a war or attrition, the NHLPA will lose. Why haven't the NHLPA rank and file, or the agents who represent them, figured this out? Actually, I think a lot of them have but are too cowed by the belligerance of those who represent them to object. And that's a shame, since they could already be back on the ice collecting those capped cheques.