Predict the start of the next NHL season

[Habs_fan_in_LA]

seventeen said:

A full year. It will take that long for the players to run out of money after failing to adjust their life style. Some owners will crash and burn, but the others, being rich beyond our wildest dreams, will notice it as much as a flea bite. The loss of a few owners will solve the contraction problem as well as cutting jobs, putting yet more pressure on the players. I give it one year for these effects to take place. Once players realize that they're living like the rest of us and it used to be so nice they'll capitulate, the union will disband and Goodenow will be tarred and feathered. That should be interesting.....I haven't seen a good tar and feather job since HA had his driveway asphalted and chased those chickens onto it. Some kind of voodoo rite.

Goodenow tar and feathered. I can't think of anybody I'd rather see tar and feathered. Oooops, just thought of one. Gary Bettman.
How did we get two such misguided leaders in the NHL?
Maybe we should have them debate three times on television and vote to have one of them thrown off the island.

[Habs_fan_in_LA]

In the absence of any real news......

I sure didn't think it would ever go this long,
I didn't think Gretzky and Lemieux would be made to look like fools,
I didn't think there would be this little reason or cause for optimism,
I didn't think the players would trip over eachother to steal the jobs of guys raising a family on fifty thou a year.

[franko]

And the winners are . . .

skilly said:

It will be a matter of who blinks first. Both sides put their line in the sand way to deep for this to be settled by January. It will get settled in the summer of 2005 . . .

seventeen said:

A full year. It will take that long for the players to run out of money after failing to adjust their life style . . . I give it one year . . . Once players realize that they're living like the rest of us and it used to be so nice they'll capitulate,

[/s]the union will disband and Goodenow will be tarred and feathered[/s] [franko’s edit: not yet, but it still might happen, though the percentages are going down]. [/quote]

In more ways than one did the players CAP itualte!