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Fear The Fehr
by Mike Chen on 11/09/09 at 01:20 AM ET
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Uh oh. The NHLPA’s looking at the one place I don’t think any of us want them to. From The Hockey News:
Donald Fehr, who plans to retire in March 2010 as the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players’ Association, will serve as an advisor on both the search for a new executive director to replace Paul Kelly and to help draft a new constitution for the NHLPA.
If you don’t know who Donald Fehr is, this sentence from Wikipedia is all you really need to hear:
Fehr led the players union through the 1994 Major League Baseball strike and subsequent World Series cancellation.
The sound you just heard was Gary Bettman rushing to the executive bathroom.
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Sigh.
Think we all saw this coming, but tried to ignore the big flashing light.
Posted by mrfluffy from Long Beach on 11/09/09 at 08:56 AM ET
Great. Just what we need. A soon-to-be-former baseball guy leading hockey players in their dealings with a hockey league run by a former basketball guy. Guess no one who’s been involved in hockey all his life is smart enough to run either the NHL or the NHLPA. This has disaster written all over it.
Posted by OlderThanChelios from Grand Rapids on 11/09/09 at 09:59 AM ET
I may be in the minority, but I see this as a positive. I hope the players hire a leader, who won’t be screwing the players/retired players and their pension fund.
I also think the players need leadership that will tell bettman and the hawks of ownership to stick it.
The most recent collective bargin agreement which was signed is constanly refered to by bettman/daly as a “partnership” is anything but a partnership.
We lost an entire season and Stanley Cup Champion due to an owners LOCKOUT, not a Work-Stoppage!
So, gary got his salary-cap and is a hero to the owners. Well, we have had the cap for 3+ years now, and are the teams in Nashville,Tampa,Atlanta,Columbus, Long Island any better off today? We all know how “well” Phoenix is thriving (Box-Office not Win Loss Column).
I hope the players hire a tough as nails barginer, and if that means the players do hold a walkout, well then so be it. If the result is that bettman goes away, I’ll gladly take that.
Remember, the KHL was not around last time, and those crazy Russian Billionaires have more cash to throw around than they know what to do with.
Things will be different this next time and I hope the players don’t budge an inch!
Posted by Down River Dan on 11/09/09 at 12:10 PM ET
I see this as a positive, too. The NHLPA needs to revise its constitution so that it can function as both a sports union and viable business entity, and a healthy, functional NHLPA is in a better position to collectively bargain with the NHL sooner than later.
The players will NOT STRIKE. That’s a ridiculous suggestion, at best. After two lockouts, what could the players possibly gain by committing the same, “Ah, hell, you’ll come back, right?” patronizing attitude toward the people who pay their salaries.
Posted by George Malik from South Lyon, MI on 11/09/09 at 02:25 PM ET
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Uh oh, I think I just heard the first rumble of thunder on the distant horizon.
Posted by Hippy Dave from Portland by way of Detroit on 11/09/09 at 02:33 AM ET