National Hockey League owners and players finally figured a way to mix pain with their pleasure, the sides tentatively agreeing in the wee hours of Sunday morning to a new collective bargaining agreement in the 113th day of an arduous, often acrimonious lockout.
There has been no official determination, but Elliotte Friedman of Hockey Night in Canada tweeted Sunday night that camps will not open before Saturday and the NHL will open a 48-game schedule on Jan. 19. For the Bruins, that could mean they open Jan. 19 in Montreal — but that’s only if the league picks up the schedule that was released last summer. If so, Boston’s first home game would be Jan. 21 vs. Toronto, a 1 p.m. matinee on Martin Luther King Day. All regular-season play is expected to have clubs playing only within their conferences.
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Bummer. Organized assault, fisticuffs, mayhem and bad behavior on skates returns. They should have given away their skates and turned to pro wrestling, which is roughly at the NHL's level of good sportsmanship.
The hardcore fans will be watching and the casual fans generally don't pay attention until football starts winding down anyway.
These are businesses and the fans are just there to be separated from their money. The only way to stop these ridiculous lock-outs is to make the owners pay, but that won't happen. The fans wil be back at full strength in 3 or 4 weeks, inviting the same thing to happen again.
If Macy's or Target treated customers that way, they would probably shop someplace else, but fans can't do that in professional sports. They're allowed to have monopolies for no good reason. Remember the AFL and ABA? There have been alternatives and innovation in the past. If there was another major hockey league, there wouldn't have been months of screwing the fans.
This dispute proves life is possible without the NHL. Wouldn't change the course of my life if they never came back.
Gee, Kevin, I guess the letter J has been written out of your lexicon. Not one negative word on the man, who, in my opinion, engineered the lockout. Our own beloved Jeremy Jacobs. That's right, Jeremy Jacobs. All the Bettman talk is just a media coerced smokescreen. He qwas nothing more than Jeremy's errandboy. And not one word from the Globe, which seejms to expend all its venom and slanted journalism taking cheap shots at the Pats.
The fans are suckers and will return like they have in the past but this is one fan that won't return because Jacobs was one of the ringleaders of this fiasco.....He didn't care about me and now I don't care about him or his game.
Someone else can have my ticket and be treated like a 4th class citizen but I am not doing it anymore.
No, i will not attend any game and contribute to the owners pockets. no high price beer, food and trinkets for me. i will wish the players the best and follow in the media.