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[Dark Knight]

LINK

PLUS...

Some mock letters from Mike Lopresti's article in USA Today.

"Dear Gary,

Sorry I haven't been returning your calls, but the Pro Bowl keeps a guy busy.

It's tough to be modest when you keep mentioning how much dough we rake in. By the way, have you noticed that a 30-second Super Bowl commercial has a higher price than a lot of your players, and gets watched by a whole lot more people?

Let's do lunch sometime. And you can explain to me again how you've got two teams in the Los Angeles area and I have none.

Paul Tagliabue, NFL commissioner.


Dear Commissioner,

What do we do now?

The Zamboni drivers of North America.

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To the NHLPA,

Thanks so much for your cooperation. Because of your actions, we have now become the only feature attraction on the winter schedule at arenas all over the United States and Canada.

Disney on Ice.

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To the offices of the NHL,

See what trouble capitalism gets you into? We had it right all along.

The 1980 Soviet Olympic hockey team.

P.S. Tell Eruzione and the other U.S. guys we thought their movie stunk.

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Dear Gary,

Let me get this straight. Your players' union caved on the idea of a salary cap? If my guys ever did that, I'd kiss the catchers' shin guards and carry out Donald Fehr's trash for a month.

Bud Selig, commissioner of baseball.

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To the offices of the NHL,

Look at the bright side. You won't have to trail beach volleyball again this year when the ratings come out.

The ACNielsen company.

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Dear NHL,

You mean you haven't been playing this season?

Many senders."

[Veca]

Reaction to the cancellation???? Silly......

For Buttman and Goodenow.....

[hockeygirrrrrl]

"I don't feel there will be a lot of negotiating between now and next September. Hopefully, I am wrong. ... It is a horrible feeling. ... It is devastating for us."  - Gretzky

I have to agree with Gretzkys comment - I doubt they will be talking much at all over the summer and it was a very sad day today to hear the season was cancelled. Even though I had the feeling it would be, to hear it was still shocking - I guess I was hoping for a miracle.

[hockey2k]

"I don't feel there will be a lot of negotiating between now and next September. Hopefully, I am wrong. ... It is a horrible feeling. ... It is devastating for us."  - Gretzky

If they don't continue on with the talks from this point, both sides are bigger idiots than I thought (and that's pretty big)! For a bunch of people who "care about the future of hockey," they don't seem too concerned about saving the draft.

You tell an eight-year-old Canadian kid that there is no Santa Claus, he'll live with that. No hockey? He won't stop crying until it starts next winter."

IS that sad, or what??

[MyDogChaos]

GOOD. I did'nt want this 28 game season anyway. Sit your asses down fix the League and get playing next year. Anyone else get freaked out by Gretzkys shifty eyes on ESPN. Whoo I had to turn away it was creepy.

[QuacksMeUp]

Guy Lafleur royally spanks players LINK

[DropThePuck]

Guy Lafleur royally spanks players  LINK

Not just "spanks" ... he chews them up and spits them out!

"I have no respect for the mentality of some of the players," he said. "They say I'm frustrated I didn't make their type of money. Well, I don't give a (expletive). We played with passion, for the love of the game. If today's players are so smart, why don't they buy a (expletive) franchise and they'll see what's going on.

Thanks for the link QMU! That was a good read.

[Veca]

I don't know if anyone else posted this link here, but I liked this. A GM's take on all this mess!!

AVS GM RESPONDS

[SacredCow]

My reaction to the cancellation - Anger.

The way I feel right now is that, if they do not get things figured out in time to start the 2005-2006 season on time, I will no longer be an NHL fan. I'll still be a hockey fan, but not an NHL fan. After all, what would there be to be a fan of? If a league can't play a single second of a game in over 16 months, what am I wasting my time and energy on them for? It's a joke! There's only so long that I can be sh*t on before I react. If, come October, they are still not playing and we've gone 16 months without an NHL game, f*ck them all. That's how I feel right now, it may change, but that's how I feel right now.

[DropThePuck]

To add on to the mock letters above:

Just asking: Does two years without being dethroned as NHL champ make the Lightning a dynasty?

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