Mark Recchi is nearly a year and a half removed from his final NHL game, one that had him high-stepping around Rogers Arena in Vancouver with the Stanley Cup lifted high over his head, and freely admits that his view of the NHL’s ongoing labor conflict is that of a grateful retiree.

“I coach my son’s team a little bit, and that’s about it for me, hockey-wise,’’ Recchi said a few days ago, talking on the phone from his home in suburban Pittsburgh. “Otherwise, I’m sort of the family limo/taxi driver.