I believe the owners are totally at fault for this one reason: they demanded and got the current CBA. Now they want to take away what the players conceded to.
I hope that the players will hold a grudge and continue the strike. If you have followed the negotiations since late summer you will see that there was a lot of insults thrown at the players back in the early going and the players said up yours...
On a totally different note: maybe Tim Thomas saw this coming and was a genius when he said he wanted to take a season off.
Also what is it without a conspiracy theory: this whole thing was done because the league wanted to make sure Sid the Crybaby was well enough to come back before they started playing hockey again. Sorry, couldn't resist.
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