An interesting essay on the NHL lockout in today's New York Post, where the Post's Larry Brooks calls for a Few Good NHL men to step up and be a hero in this vitriolic debate.
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And while we're sure more than a few fans might find it hard to believe that a cabal of a few owners are holding the entire league hostage.
The good news out of all of this, if there is any good news we guess, is that the New York media still actually finds the NHL story interesting enough to offer up some coverage, so perhaps the league can be thankful for that, though maybe not so much the Commissioner himself.
Brooks does bring up an interesting theme, that of a split in the league's ownership class and the approach that Gary Bettman is taking in yet another labour dispute with the league's players. With a few apparently less than impressed with how things are going at the moment.
Surely, if the more monied of the collective wished for it, then this dispute would have long since been settled, so, we suspect that more than just a few are still onside with the thermo-nuclear model currently set to detonate.
Still, the article does offer up some evidence that all are not happy with the boss man, who after all works on behalf of the owners.
All in all though, we're not sure if the NHL needs a Hero or a Hostage Negotiator at this point...
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