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Anyone else up early for the USA v Canada game? Canada up 2-0 after the first.</p></blockquote><br />
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Yep...but then again, it is 11am over here </p></blockquote>
Almost 530am here. Jones has made some big mistakes in this tournament for USA. Similarly, Hamilton hasn't impressed me much compared to his hype.

 

True, Hamilton did not impress me much, but Rielly did so far.

 

I thought Nugent-Hopkins and Scheifele are playing great, but haven't seen Huberdeau much. Strome also playing good in this tournament.

 

Galchenyuk also playing a good tournament, and I also like Gibson in goal.

 

I was hoping to see more from MacKinnon, but not much ice time for him.

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Anyone else up early for the USA v Canada game? Canada up 2-0 after the first.</p></blockquote>

Yep...but then again, it is 11am over here

it's only december 28 today. they have until January 14 to actually sign a deal imo. that gives them a week or so of training camp and then the season starts in late janurary. i think we are in for 2 weeks of intense negotiations. if nothing comes out of this at the end of 2 weeks, then the season will be cancelled

i think fehr will try to squeeze a little bit more out of the owners before signing a deal.

Uhm...if they would start late january with playing games, wouldn't that mean there needs to be another block of games cancelled? As of now all games till the 14th are cancelled, so with a one week training camp it would come to an actual deadline of around the 7th of January when a deal needs to be reached. If they go past this 7th of January the next cancellation would be announced around this date right? I am not sure if they will cancel another block of games or they will cancel the whole season that is.

Please correct me if I am wrong...

Will this be enough for Fehr to accept??

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=412368

"The NHL has made a new CBA proposal to the NHL Players' Association, an NHL player told TSN on Friday.
The player, who requested anonymity, said the NHL made a new offer to the NHLPA on Thursday, one which moved on term limit for player contracts, salary variance and buyouts.
According to TSN Hockey Insider Darren Dreger, the NHL adjusted its maximum contract length from five to six years (seven years if a team is re-signing its own player) and boosted the variance from five to 10 per cent.
TSN Hockey Insider Pierre LeBrun adds that the new offer includes the 'Make Whole' provision that stays at $300 million and allows each team one compliance buyout prior to the 2013-14 season. The buyout would not count against the cap, but it would against the players' share.
NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly would not confirm what the player said when reached by TSN.
More to follow."

this legal analyst from sportsnet doesn't believe for a second that the players will win this in courts

http://www.sportsnet..._antitrust_law/

Thank you for posting this article. It was very easy to understand and very insightfull.

Seems the players are playing a very dangerous game with this 'disclaimer of interest'-voting!
It either force the owners back to the table and come to a deal in the middle or...
The owners don't bite and will await judge decision (which is a good chance it will favors the owners) and then they can really stick it to the players.

It will then shift from the owners driving the car with the players in the passenger seat to the owners driving the car with the players tied up in the trunk.