Emotions surrounding the ongoing 2012 NHL lockout took another pessimistic turn Monday as the league officially cancelled games well past Christmas Day.
NHL cancels games thru Dec. 30, making it 526 games plus the Winter Classic canceled due to the ongoing labor dispute. bit.ly/XKu3fG
— Dan Rosen (@drosennhl) December 10, 2012
For all realistic purposes, however, the three-week cancellation was simply trivial.
At any point in time, a hypothetical 14- to 17-day buffer exists between the current day and the earliest possible start of a shortened NHL season.
Upon the proclamation of a CBA agreement, a tedious owner/player voting process and up-to-two-week-long training camp would still occur before Opening Day.
The 2011 NBA lockout, in fact, rambled on for a whopping 30 days after a deal was announced (Nov. 25) until games began Dec. 25. Training camps didn't even begin for two weeks after the end of negotiations, delayed by a complicated ratification process on both sides of the aisle.
While the NHL would likely manage to shorten that time frame—unlike the NHLPA, the NBPA had legally disba ...
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