December 11, 2012

Charles Pierce on Donald Fehr and the NHL lockout: So, when the NHL players turned to [Fehr], everyone on both sides knew they were hiring a wartime consigliere. The players came out of the last lockout with such impeccably clean clocks that it's a wonder they didn't hire someone with an RPG launcher this time around. Fehr's hiring should have come as a surprise to approximately nobody, since a lockout is always a deliberate tactic by management aimed at achieving a precise goal — in this case, clawing back what little was left after the last time Bettman fastened on this strategy.

posted by rumple to hockey at 03:43 PM - 3 comments

Great article. I'm glad the players have been holding strong.

posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 09:48 PM on December 11, 2012

Love Charles Pierce. This lockout is just so unbelievable. You literally would not believe it if it were in a work of fiction.

posted by Rock Steady at 09:51 PM on December 11, 2012

Great article. Thanks rumple.

posted by DudeDykstra at 10:41 PM on December 11, 2012

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