Amidst a week full of hopeful hockey fans and intense bargaining was the absence of two key figures: the head of the NHL, commissioner Gary Bettman and the head of the Players’ Association, Donald Fehr.
Earlier in the week, it had been proposed that a handful of players would meet with a few owners without the leaders of their respective sides, Bettman and Fehr. Fans were skeptical, but the two sides met and surprisingly made some headway into the lockout.
And for the first time in what seemed like a month, fans had hope – hope that the NHL season would happen, hope that there would be hockey before the new year, and hope that hockey would exist again in the lives of Americans.
Nevertheless, something went wrong, as always. Therefore, I retract my statement of blaming solely Gary Bettman earlier in the lockout, and I alter it to this:
Gary Bettman and Donald Fehr, it is both of your faults.
(Associated Press/CBCSports.ca)
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