Brender talked about the report in their magazine that they released the story that NHL hockey icons Mario Lemieux and Wayne Gretzky have been trying to talk sense in to the players union salvaging what ever good can come out of the labor talks.
The Hockey News article says that some NHL veterans have called Commissioner Bettman directly to talk about salvaging a chance at the season. Sending the clear signal that the Players' Union is now busted and the Players are individually speaking out, it looks to be that the owners will get what they want and force their $42 million salary cap.
"I don't know if it's necessarily tonight, tomorrow morning, Friday night or Saturday. I know the season has been cancelled, but it's not too late to uncancel it," Steve Yzerman said.
Basically this story is just a sample of the panic of the old players who just don't have enough years left. If the season were to be wiped out, the players get a year older anyway. It's a good try by what should have been started from the beginning where the veterans would lead in good faith and not enter into a war of words through the press.
It's doubtful that Mario and Wayne can reopen the season, but it's a nice try by them to heal the wounds of an ugly labor battle.
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Facts are Steve Moore was, and may agin, be good enough to play in the NHL. You don't crack the Avs lineup being a charity case. And as for our classless leader Marcus Naslund? Wow, here was a man in perfect health, making 10 grand a month in strike pay and half a million dollars in Swedish salary talking of Steve Moore being after the money? Talk about the kettle calling the frying pan black. Want to bet dollars for bread crumbs that if Naslund hand't had gotten up he'd be home in Sweden today throwing every legal action he could at us? Come on,here is a guy who flew out of town in a hurry and spent the next 12 months talking about not returning to Vancouver. Holding the axe over our heads to ensure he got every peeny out the team he could. I don't care if Naslund scores a 100 goals this year, he is a classles, smal minded single planed, egotistical twerp. There is only 1 Canuck that still remains untarneshed that is Linden. He has spoken his mind but never said otehrs couldn't. When our game was in the tank him and Jerome stayed home and fought for it (among a few others)> Trevor is a senior, in playing years, and he must have thought more than once that a long lay off may spell the end to his day. But he some how found a way to live off his strike pay and stayed home and fought for what we are enjoying now. The rest, including Naslund, Morrison,who went can burn for it. And as for the neckbreaker? All I wanted was afurther 10 games, no posting to our gold medal team and some very public and local shows to the minor leauge players as to how to play this great game. This 'it is as it is' crap is fine for him but when if I was still coacj=hing my pee wee teams I'd have no expliantion for those young want to bes.
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