{"id":6871,"date":"2012-11-17T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=6871"},"modified":"2012-11-17T07:37:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T12:37:55","slug":"hockey-impasse-drags-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/11\/17\/hockey-impasse-drags-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Hockey impasse drags on"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Still no hockey. Sigh… Photo: Diana Beideman<\/a>, CC some rights reserved<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

Early this month<\/a>\u00a0I blogged there might be some faint light glimmering in the dark tunnel of this fall’s National Hockey League’s lock-out.<\/p>\n

But no, not so fast!<\/p>\n

While more talks did take place, they didn’t seem to produce meaningful progress.<\/p>\n

Now media reports in Canada say the deadlock is so intractable that NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman is suggesting a two-week moratorium on collective bargaining negotiations.<\/p>\n

Will the whole season go down the tubes? This from the Canadian Press<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Asked about that possibility on Thursday morning, deputy commissioner Bill Daly replied: “I hope not.”<\/p>\n

“But I’m more discouraged now than I have been at any point in the process,” Daly added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Toronto Star reports that NHL Player’s Association special counsel Steve Fehr thought the right deal could be wrapped up fairly quickly<\/a>. But they aren’t there yet.<\/p>\n

Fehr acknowledged that the union and league remained split on three major issues: the division of money, player contract rights and who pays for the damage caused by the lockout.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

By Friday the \u00a0Globe and Mail reported a prevailing mood of anger under a headline of “Vitriol overtakes hope<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

I asked a friend about how this is playing in her house. “Your husband loves hockey, right? How’s he taking this lost season so far?”<\/p>\n

Her reply? “Well, he’s so mad at all of them that he just doesn’t care anymore.”<\/p>\n

Then she echoed something I’ve heard from many: “Who cares about the\u00a0millionaire\u00a0owners and players? I feel sorry for all the little guys – like all the restaurants, all the wait help trying to put themselves through school when business is dead without those game nights.”<\/p>\n

I know it’s only hockey. Hopefully just one season.<\/p>\n

But positions that sound like \u00a0‘total victory or scorched earth!’ bring another saying to mind: ‘be careful what you wish for.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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