Here's what I like about this piece from Pittsburgh - the writer almost got it right! As you can see in Penguins left to ponder draft position, the NHL DID NOT, repeat after me DID NOT cancel the draft, which this writer understands, sort of:

The league canceled the draft yesterday primarily because Ottawa hotels could no longer hold the roughly 4,500 hotel rooms booked for the event. NHL executive vice president Bill Daly said that the league will bring the draft to Ottawa "as soon as possible," while at least one report out of Canada yesterday suggested a scaled-down version of the event was still possible.

Well, the reason is right but, in the words of the NHL's release - "The National Hockey League announced today that the 2005 NHL Entry Draft events have been cancelled." Not the draft, the events. Only the NHL could so something proper - allow the hotels and restaurants of Ottawa time to fill themselves since the likelihood is the NHL won't be coming - and have it misconstrued as something nefarious. Many writers talked about how the NHL is doing this now to exert pressure on the NHLPA when the simple truth is that it's 90 days or so before the reservations would need to be used.