NHL to PA: “Let’s give them something to talk about”

by on November 5, 2012 in League News, Morning Mashup - 1,014 Comments

NHL to PA: “Let’s give them something to talk about”
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It looks like the NHL and Players Association are ready to resume talks this week (most likely Tuesday), and now we can briefly have hope again.

Certainly, a marathon talk between Bill Daly and Steve Fehr is a good start, and it gives even more reason for optimism that nothing was leaked from this meeting.

Where I lose some of my optimism is in a) the fact that this deal will rely on Jeremy Jacobs’ ability to compromise, and b) we live in a world where players value the opinion of clowns like Allan Walsh.

Neither side is content to reach the compromise we all envision for them, and both sides will need to let go of this “trying to win” philosophy that has cost them a quarter of a seasons revenue.

I’ll cap this rant early, but root for radio silence on both sides (an understandable challenge for the PA with 700+ members).

Monday Morning Links

Report: New Round of CBA talks planned for next week

Daly and Fehr meet to find common ground

Daly says marathon CBA session covered a lot of ground

Lockout will affect World Junior Team Roster
There could be a few more Leafs in the mix if players like Nugent-Hopkins, Huberdeau, D.Hamilton, R.Murphy and Strome weren’t locks for the team.

Toronto Maple Leafs prospect Garret Sparks eyes Team USA
Sparks is considered by many to be the best bet for the backup job on the junior team. If he has a few more games like the one last Friday, he’ll be a lock.

NHLers lighting it up as kids
Believe it or not Lombardi didn’t always fire the puck dead center into the goaltenders chest.

Finally…
Jeremy Roenick wants to fight a twitter follower for charity by needs legal advice first
In what is one of the best twitter exchanges you’ll ever read, @thekidcanada reminds Roenick that there is a lot of paperwork that goes into punching people in the face.

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  • Joe_17

    hahaha…Roenick! I’ll never forgive him for ‘the goal’ but its hard not to like the guy!

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  • Optimustic

    Not much to talk about, but the silence will hopefully get this CBA done.  

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  • Burtonboy

    CBA deal on Friday and Leafs trade for Luongo on Saturday . Wonder whats in the coffee I just had :)

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  • http://www.twitter.com/jmckelvie Gettin Rielled Up

    earlier in the lockout when they started counting the days I made a random guess that day 54 was going to be a big day.. lets see.

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  • http://www.twitter.com/jmckelvie Gettin Rielled Up

    Also, one of the header pictures on this site has 4 goalies in jerseys with Leafs logos on it and oldschool face masks. Can anyone tell me where that’s from?

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  • mcloki

    Well, At least You’re optimistic BB. I predict they flush the season. Why?

    Because Bettman and the owners are that stupid.

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  • wendelsway

    Morning BB……I’m thinking…….Grand Marnier, perhaps?….lol  : )

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  • Burtonboy

    lol not this hr of the morning . I’m thinking too much chichory :)

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  • Burtonboy

    Highly doubt they lose the season at this point. Man you can’t deny the owners are making an effort to get this resolved 

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  • keon

    I’m not sure if stupid is the way to describe them, but being as rich as they are and seeing what happened after the last lockout, they certainly have no fear.

    Fans need to teach each side a lesson this time around, but they won’t. Five years from now, this will all happen again.

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  • Zep2

    That will get your motor running no doubt

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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 hidden 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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  • Zep2

    You may well be right about Luongo. The thought of starting another season with inexperienced goaltending fills me with dread as Leafs fan. Thats not a knock on Reimer and Scrivens. Its way too much pressure on a tandem that has approx . one season of combined NHL experience. Unless the asking price for Luongo is outrageous, I see him in B&W.

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  • NazemKsavzri

    Hahah, Luo followed n dm’d me yesterday after i told him we’d love to have him in Tdot, and that he is a large reason for the Canucks being as good as they are today. (morale boost). Makes it easier for players to play to potential when their mistakes are bailed out by their goaltender, etc.  Whether him or a publicist, it was still pretty cool to get a response for a compliment.

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  • Burtonboy

    I was listening to the Marlies game on Friday evening on the Heat radio station. The announcer mentioned that all the Leafs brass ( Burke and Nonis ) were at the game. Even more interesting so was all the Cannucks brass as well . Not scouts either it was Laurence Gilman and Stan Smyl. Might not mean a thing but it sure leads one to speculate for sure. Gilman is to the Cannucks as Nonis is to the leafs . Heavily involved with all the trades 

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  • http://www.twitter.com/jmckelvie Gettin Rielled Up

    screenshot it.

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  • NazemKsavzri

     i did.

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  • NazemKsavzri

     thats his DM to me right there.

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  • Burtonboy

    Lol thats really cool . No doubt in my mind Stromebone is luongo

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  • NazemKsavzri

     yeah i dno, it seems like his tweets match his on camera personality, and he’s never denied it on camera that it was him, plus he’s always talkin backin n fourth with teammates on there aswell. Ya never know if he shares the account with a publicist though.

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  • Mind Bomb

    Good morning Folks ! This is the week, NHL Hockey is coming Back soon !

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  • NazemKsavzri

     Theres really no goalie id rather have thats available, and not many others in the league id rather have period, in terms of flat out goaltending (business aside)

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  • Burtonboy

    I just looked at whose following him. God its full of players and all the top reporters in the hockey world 

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  • Mind Bomb

     Nice Naz, thats pretty Cool.

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  • NazemKsavzri

    hahah yea im really not sure of who else itd be, just always seems surreal that someone famous would ever take the time to respond to anything. I especially didnt expect it from him, always kinda saw him as egotistical, but its not my place in this world to judge things like that. Characters are always misleading as circumstances define the exterior.

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