NHL- GET IT DONE!!!!

NHL - Today is your day.  If you do not walk out of today's meetings with a start date to this NHL season, you have not only solidified your place in the basement of American pro sport leagues, but you will have locked the door behind you!!

First, I hated Bettman (just to be clear, I have really changed that one!).  I blame him for being the only commissioner in sports to be so willing to scrap an entire season over an amount of money that is less than the loss incurred during that lost season.  For people that seem so obsessed with numbers, I is amazing that they can ignore that one!

Second, I hated the owners.  They started off with a deal that was significantly worse than what they all agreed on the last time we lost a season.  The "talks" as one-sided as they seem to continue to be can not get very far if the owners seem to be shut down from the start.

Now....COME ON PLAYERS!!!  I have started to watch AHL hockey.  I will even tune into a few KHL games as can catch them.  Some of the international elite players are getting too comfortable playing elsewhere.  That firm ground you have to stand on, is beginning to crumble.  Vote out Donald Fehr (complete idiot with questionable loyalties) and get this deal done!!

The sad nature to professional sports, is the fact that we raise our children to be active and athletic. We raise them to have a healthy competitive nature.  They look up to the pro level athletes of whatever sport they cling to as a child.  EVERY Pro league and even the refs have had labor disputes, resulting in either cancellation of games or second rate game being played.  SCREW THE MONEY!!! You guys ALL make enough.  I understand there is a "business" to it all.  I understand that as a player that literally brings in the money, you would want a bigger piece of the pie.  I get all of that.  But there comes a point where it becomes way bigger than your money, your team, or your sport.

On a side note....If we no longer have a NHL, and adopt a semi-global view towards the game similar to soccer, the "World Cup" of hockey would be HUGE!!!!