MICHAEL ROSENBERG says it all in today's Detroit Free Press: Boys, it's time to give up and play hockey. He does an excellent job of summing up what I and a number of others out here in the blogsphere have been saying. We all know where this ends so why not end it now, collect your salaries and move on. Our game needs to heal and tearing it apart over some ideologue's misplaced sense of protection for 30 - 40 guys while failing the vast majority of his immediate constituency along with fans and all the "little people" who park cars, sell beer, etc. is grossly irresponsible. Maybe criminal - who knows: the NHLPA isn't immune from that sort of thing.
For Ted Saskin to say "I don't know of anyone who believes that the NHL has made one bona fide proposal aimed at a settlement that could work for both sides" is a joke. Hey Ted! I do! "Working for both sides" is just that, buddy. Just because it's not exactly the way you want it doesn't mean it can't work. In fact, comparing the NHLPA's last proposal and the NHL's, it's pretty obvious that most players are WAY better off under the NHL's proposal. So where do you get off saying stuff like that?