Sunday, September 16, 2012

Another Lockout: National Hockey League

From the Minneapolis Star Tribune: Without a whisper, the National Hockey League has officially padlocked its doors.
The league went quietly into its second lockout in eight years Saturday night, passing through the 11 p.m. expiration of the collective bargaining agreement without a press conference or even a statement.
With no formal negotiating sessions since Wednesday and the NHL and the Players' Association still light years apart on core economics and other critical issues, training camps won't open next weekend and it looks grim that the 2012-13 season will begin as scheduled Oct. 11.
"It doesn't seem like it's something that you should have to go through twice in your career," Wild veteran Matt Cullen said of the work stoppage. "But it's a fact of life. It seemed like the last couple weeks there was not a lot going on, so it was almost a foregone conclusion that there was going to be a lockout.
"Now, let's try to make this as quick as we can."
Sunday morning, 30 arenas will be off limits to hundreds of players. Teams can no longer make contact with them or promote them, meaning television shows like the popular Wild documentary "Becoming Wild" will have to stop airing on Fox Sports North  http://www.startribune.com/sports/wild/169918876.html
The good news is that Hockey is not too popular in the U.S. unless you happen to live in a NHL city.  The bad news is that this another case of a lock out in professional sports as the NBA and NFL have locked their employees in the past couple of years.
Hopefully, the lockout will not last long as many people, other than the athletes, will be affected.

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