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  • DS1119
    DS1119 Posts: 33,497
    I have to be a skeptic at this point. I'll believe it when I see it.
  • vant0037
    vant0037 Posts: 6,170
    DS1119 wrote:
    I have to be a skeptic at this point. I'll believe it when I see it.

    Exactly. I'm so tired of getting my hopes up. And for what? Too many games crammed into too few days? An asterisked Stanley Cup (which is what it will be for whoever wins it)?

    On the other hand, I've got to think that there will be some pretty inspired players, at least for the first few weeks. There are a lot of frustrated players out there. Every interview I hear from a player is pretty depressing. The most common phrase "it is what it is," coupled with an eyebrow raise and a sigh.
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  • Bathgate66
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    vant0037 wrote:

    Exactly. I'm so tired of getting my hopes up. And for what? Too many games crammed into too few days? An asterisked Stanley Cup (which is what it will be for whoever wins it)?

    Like NJ in 95
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  • drivingrl
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    Mediator couldn't get 2 sides together to bargain yesterday and so far is failing today. Isn't that his job?

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  • DS1119
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    drivingrl wrote:
    Darren Dreger ‏@DarrenDreger
    Mediator couldn't get 2 sides together to bargain yesterday and so far is failing today. Isn't that his job?

    :fp:


    It's just never going to happen.
  • vant0037
    vant0037 Posts: 6,170
    The Wild beat reporter, Michael Russo had this to report today, as I'm sure beat writers for every team are writing:

    "Down in Edina this morning, more than two-dozen NHLers skated with purpose as they hope we’re days away from a new CBA and training camp. “Cautiously optimistic” was the way most described their feelings (we’ve heard that before), and as one player said, there’s some relief because at least we know we’re a week away from some kind of conclusion to this madness – lockout ending or the season being canceled.

    “I’ve been the eternal optimist, so in the grand scheme of things, with how close everything really is, I can’t imagine that it’ll blow up and they’ll cancel everything,” said Wild forward Zach Parise. “It’ll be pretty stupid to do that.”

    It's really weird, the disconnect between what many of the players are saying (I just want to play) and what's being represented at the negotiating table. I'm not taking sides with players or owners (I don't know enough about the details to really dig in), but it's just frustrating to hear this from guys like Parise, and then read again about how Thursday, they failed to meet (despite a plan to). Now more mistrust?

    I'm trying to be positive, because it is really, really exciting to think about hockey potentially starting in 2 weeks (albeit shortened hockey).
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  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
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    I almost hope Bettman cancels the season. Fehr thinks Bettman is bluffing. This is a fucking game to Fehr. He just wants to be known as the guy who saved the players their guaranteed contracts so they can play one or two fantastic seasons out of the gate, negotiate a monstrous 10 year deal, and coast all the way to the bank.

    He's playing a chess game and the players are his pawns. And if this season gets cancelled, so do all the previously tabled offers, and the players go back to the drawing board of getting even LESS. Fucking brats. But they are stupid brats for allowing Fehr to take them on this personal crusade of his.
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  • Bathgate66
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    enough of the back and forth bullshit.
    drop the puck already
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  • rival.
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    does anyone really want to see a 40 game season?

    i wish they just cancel it already at this point. sickening.
  • vant0037
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    Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:
    I almost hope Bettman cancels the season. Fehr thinks Bettman is bluffing. This is a fucking game to Fehr. He just wants to be known as the guy who saved the players their guaranteed contracts so they can play one or two fantastic seasons out of the gate, negotiate a monstrous 10 year deal, and coast all the way to the bank.

    He's playing a chess game and the players are his pawns. And if this season gets cancelled, so do all the previously tabled offers, and the players go back to the drawing board of getting even LESS. Fucking brats. But they are stupid brats for allowing Fehr to take them on this personal crusade of his.

    Another thing lost is the momentum that was building in the Winnipeg-Minnesota rivalry. Those were some great games atmosphere-wise in both venues. You could feel that intensity building between the teams...now...fuck...who cares?
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  • MayDay10
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    they have until next week. They will have an agreement. Likely the last blow-up, wait out period and they will bang it out early/mid next week.
  • Bathgate66
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    i agree they will likely wait until a few minutes left of the 'deadline'

    :roll:
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    the latest

    http://snyrangersblog.com/2012-13-locko ... -optimism/

    Update: Kypreos says “Source “tentative deal could be done within 24 hrs or #NHLPA could serve #NHL notice to disclaim early as 2day. Present meeting is huge.”

    LeBrun adds: “Pressure cooker day. Traction in talks juxtaposed with NHLPA re-arming itself with disclaimer hammer this evening…”
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  • Bathgate66
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    http://www.sbnation.com/nhl/2013/1/5/38 ... r-progress


    Scot Beckenbaugh, savior?

    Might just be the case. The United States federal mediator assigned to the NHL lockout has spent the better part of the last 24 hours shuttling back and forth between the league offices and an NHLPA hotel suite in Manhattan.

    It's like a curtain has been opened after a long dreary day, and suddenly the sun is shining its optimism all over hockey's living room. Or something like that. Nearly every report is optimistic, or in some cases downright giddy, this Saturday afternoon:
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  • DS1119
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    Again, I'll believe it when I see it.
  • Bathgate66
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    #NHLLOCKOUT is over. Camp opens Jan 12. 50 game season. #lockout
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  • DS1119
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    Bathgate66 wrote:
    #NHLLOCKOUT is over. Camp opens Jan 12. 50 game season. #lockout


    Where are you seeing this?
  • Bathgate66
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    its dribbling down as per facebook , various tweets
    One was from Jeff O'Neil
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  • DS1119
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    Bathgate66 wrote:
    its dribbling down as per facebook , various tweets
    One was from Jeff O'Neil



    Interesting.
  • Bathgate66
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    DS1119 wrote:
    Bathgate66 wrote:
    its dribbling down as per facebook , various tweets
    One was from Jeff O'Neil



    Interesting.



    dont know why a single random player would release a tweet,
    before the league iitself or even a team,...
    but oh well.
    i have hope and full confidence that something is about to happen.
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  • DS1119
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    Bathgate66 wrote:
    DS1119 wrote:
    Bathgate66 wrote:
    its dribbling down as per facebook , various tweets
    One was from Jeff O'Neil



    Interesting.



    dont know why a single random player would release a tweet,
    before the league iitself or even a team,...
    but oh well.
    i have hope and full confidence that something is about to happen.


    Nothing yet on the espn or nhl site...just that they are getting closer.

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