Greed appears ready to sink the National Hockey League this season. Players, owners and the league have been unable to come to terms on the salary cap and some of the other issues that were dogging their progress, and after months of inactivity, they finally sat their a$$es down and talked about their issues. Sort of.
The result: no progress. As a result, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman is calling a press conference on Tuesday to announce the cancellation of the rest of the season.
It is very likely that there will be no Stanley Cup awarded this year. This has not happened since the worldwide flu pandemic of 1919.
Shame on the NHL and the players union for not budging on the salary cap and allowing it to come to this! It doesn’t matter who is more at fault in causing the cancellation of the season, they are equally as stubborn. They’re going to have to crawl on their hands and knees and beg the fans to come back once this sorry state of affairs is settled. It took them years to get over the last major strike; this time it may take even longer.
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