At least they’re talking again

by on November 4, 2012 in League News - 145 Comments

At least they’re talking again
Photo: Associated Press, courtesy of Sportsnet
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Anyway, if you’ve read me or listened to me on the radio throughout this process, you know I’ve been very pessimistic about a deal getting done. I would say I’ve switched to cautiously optimistic now. I have been given hope that the two least turbulent leaders in this negotiation are sitting down talking about things that actually matter, and without storming off in a huff and a puff.

This is a math equation now. Solve the math equation, save some face, catapult this league back onto the national landscape and make sure that a large portion of the 2012-13 season is played.

-Michael Russo updates after last night’s lengthy meeting between Bill Daly and Steve Fehr. A meeting involving more representation from both sides is expected to take place early in the week.

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  • Burtonboy

    Just kidding lol. He played ok. Must have been nervous being his 1st pro game

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  • TheCanucksnaphook

    Yeah I figured as much.  I think he will do well…..sure as fuck hope so.

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  • WendelGilmour

    I really hope Daly and S. Fehr keep talking through issues to near resolution before the bigger group gets involved. Too many inflammatory personalties, imo.

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  • TheCanucksnaphook

    This is going to get taken care of this week…..personalities be damned.  They know they need to get the players back on the ice because the game is getting forgotten.

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  • rustynail

    what game?

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  • The Shrike

    Yeah, prophesy according to a people who completely missed their own extinction.

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  • WendelGilmour

    I hope so, I just don’t want guys like Jacobs and Toews involved at crunch time. They cause hard feelings unnecessarily.

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  • wiski

    SN 590 The FAN ‏@FAN590
    Report: NHL and NHLPA could resume full labour negotiations as early as Tuesday.

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  • TheCanucksnaphook

    Thing called Hockey.  Used to be played on ice with professional athletes across North America.

    They had teams in places like Tampa, LA, Nashville, and Atlanta.   Funny this little tyrant of a commissioner kept pushing these markets even tho people there didnt want to watch this “hockey”.

    Game eventually died after a long lockout…..

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  • Dangle_My_Berries

    Poor kid got put over the handlebars early in the game……got up quick though

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  • TheCanucksnaphook

    oh yeah he got his tits lit up didnt he?

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  • Dangle_My_Berries

    Absolutely dropped…….got up fast though and took a healthy run at the guy along the boards.

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  • TheCanucksnaphook

    hmmm I cannot find it.  Maybe I am not looking in the right spot…brad ross crushed.

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  • wiski

    Kevin McGran ‏@kevin_mcgran
    NHL lockout: Bill Daly, Steve Fehr upbeat after marathon talks -http://thestar.com  http://bit.ly/RD2Feh  @torontostar

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  • http://www.hockey-nerd.com Cameron

    Wow, 4 point night for Biggs.

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  • TheCanucksnaphook

    yup piece of crap.

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  • http://www.hockey-nerd.com Cameron

    Kinda wish we’d found a way to draft Percy, Biggs AND Jenner in that draft. 

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_B3SSPC7LPAPXV6DP622DYEBHPE canadian_boo…

    Seen Jenner last week…nice …..Now for shit sake Kadri you got magic hands …get your crap in gear…Look for open ice like Lafleur and 99 did !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • Knights2Leafs

    Best of my recollection both  players had virtual dynasty teams surrounding them.  Pretty sure Kadri would be thriving in similar circumstances.  Having said that you’re comparing  him to two of the best players of all time and it’s pretty unlikely he rises to anywhere close to that level.  I would take a Jacques Lemaire style game.

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  • Bob’s your uncle

    Now we can see why Mitt Romney has stonewalled every attempt to get him to release his tax records.       ”On Monday, Mitt Romney is expected to face charges for ethics violations and profiteering with regard to his involvement with the 2009 government bailout of the auto industry.    “A coalition of community, labor and good government organizations is calling on the U.S. Office of Government Ethics to investigate presidential candidate Mitt Romney for noncompliance with the Ethics in Government Act and compel him to either disclose his investments or divest them,” according to the United Auto Workers Union, who requested the charges.   An investigative report from The Nation found that Mitt Romney and his wife Ann, “personally gained at least $15.3 million from the bailout—and a few of Romney’s most important Wall Street donors made more than $4 billion. Their gains, and the Romney’s, were astronomical—more than 3,000 percent on their investment.”   The Romney profits came from Adelphi, a former parts supplier of the Delco division of General Motors. Adelphi was not technically supposed to be included in the federal bailout money given to the auto industry. But since neither GM nor Chrysler could survive without parts from Adelphi, $12.9 million in federal bailout money wasdemanded by investors and eventually diverted to hedge funds that Mitt and Ann Romney bought into.    Romney did not disclose his windfall profits from Delphi in his June 1, 2012, Public Financial Disclosure Report to the office of Government Ethics, “because he did not disclose the underlying holdings of his private equity and limited partnership funds,” according to the UAW.     With the UAW charges coming to light, the reason for Mitt Romney’s hiden tax returns becomes more apparent and more important as he seeks the presidency.   Mr. Romney’s refusal to release his tax returns prior to 2010 may be linked to the UAW’s allegations that Mitt and Ann Romney may be tied to ethics violations and profiteering in the 2009 federal auto company bailouts.    By the time Romney and Adelphi’s other investors were done, the company had been stripped of all its union workers and pension funds, and 80 percent of Adelphi’s jobs were shipped to China.”          ”In an USA Today Op-Ed, UAW president Bob King said, “Mitt Romney and his partners made a killing on the GM bankruptcy by gaining control of bankrupt parts supplier Delphi, then threatening to withhold components critical to the production of GM vehicles. Romney’s business partners were willing to force GM into liquidation and cause a national economic calamity unless they got more money…”    “This is the real Romney… A man who lies about Chrysler moving jobs to China, when his history at Bain Capital, the private equity firm he founded, shows that he has invested in Chinese factories where workers are grossly exploited. Romney won’t even act to stop the Sensata factory in Illinois, in which he is an investor, from closing the doors and moving to China the day before the election.”    
    “With just days to go before Election Day, it’s hard to know if this will affect the results. But it could make a difference if Romney wins and he is found guilty of felony extortion and profiteering.”       ”At a press conference in Toledo, Bob King, President of the United Automobile Workers, will announce that his union and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)  have filed a formal complaint with the US Office of Government Ethics in Washington stating that Gov. Romney improperly hid a profit of $15.3 million to $115.0 million in Ann Romney’s so-called “blind” trust.”    ”In 2009, Ann Romney partnered with her husband’s key donor, billionaire Paul Singer, who secretly bought a controlling interest in Delphi Auto, the former GM auto parts division.  Singer’s hedge fund, Elliott Management, threatened to cut off GM’s supply of steering columns unless GM and the government’s TARP auto bailout fund provided Delphi with huge payments.  While the US treasury complained this was “extortion,” the hedge funds received, ultimately, $12.9 billion in taxpayer subsidies.”     ”The UAW complaint calls for Romney to reveal exactly how much he made off Delphi — and continues to make.  The Singer syndicate, once in control of Delphi, eliminated every single UAW job –25,000– and moved almost all auto parts production to Mexico and China where Delphi now employs 25,000 auto parts workers.”       ”The Romneys’ gigantic windfall was hidden inside an offshore corporation inside a limited partnership inside a trust which both concealed the gain and reduces taxes on it.”    

           For Mitt it’s all over except for the lying. (more to come)

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