Leelanau Sports Guy’s World

After reporting yesterday that hockey was done for the season, the NHL Owners and the NHLPA have been proposing and countering the last 24 hours. Now it all comes down to Wednesday when the commish will announce the decision. The players have now accepted a salary cap but are still fighting with the owners about the amount.

Players’ association rejects NHL’s “final offer” and offers counterproposal - Yahoo! Sports article by Pierre Lebrun

My view: Alot of players are saying a shorter season is better than none, but not to me. I don’t want to see a 28 game season and playoffs and have a champion named. If the players were going to eventually accept a cap after saying they never would, why did it take until now. Obviously they weren’t as strong as they thought. There is plenty of blame to go around, but instead of takings weeks off in December and January without talking, why didn’t this get done then. That really bothers me and makes me not even excited about the possible short season. This lockout has left a bad taste in my mouth (or it could be the lasagna) and I am in no hurry to watch hockey. I love the Red Wings as much as anyone, but don’t really care at this point. I will probably tune back in for 2005-06, but to me, they might as well just cancel this season.