This is sad and hilarious.
It's sad that the season is likely gone once the Winter Classic gets canceled. The owners obviously wanted a full season - we know that from their last proposal. So no full season plus no Winter Classic gives them nothing more than a shortened season with playoffs. All of their rhetoric to date makes that sound like a losing proposition for them. So we'll see if they pretty much throw in the towel on a shortened season.
The hilarious part is people basically cribbing from the owner's playbook on the big, bad Donald Fehr. Ken Holland gets ripped unmercifully on here but Gary Bettman, who has instituted three lockouts and signed off on two new CBAs that were apparently collossal failures, who has created the disastrous expansion of the league, and who basically took the sport off the radar of the casual sports fan, is rewarded by having hockey fans parrot his talking points.
