This AP article is pretty much where we are on the surface. We won't have another weekend of wondering, that's for sure. And this weekend would have been All Star weekend in Atlanta, the one time where the NHL family gathers to celebrate the game and the players as one. Gone.
There are a lot of rumors out there that much will happen this weekend and I hope they're true. If they are, and the NHLPA comes up with a last minute compromise that includes a cap, and if I were a player, I would fire Goodenow and the executive board a minute after it was signed. Any deal the NHLPA signs this weekend will be one they could have had months ago, months during which NHLPA members lost money. Months during which the "little people" who derive their livings or a portion thereof from the game have been clobbered. Months during which the fans found other uses for their entertainment dollars. But Bob the ideologue stuck to his guns for those months and everyone else lost. So like All Star Weekend, Bob needs to be gone.