BY: Ken Campbell

If you had asked anyone in hockey six months ago if there was going to be a lockout, you likely would have been greeted with a sense of optimism that this time the two sides had at least a decent chance of solving their differences without another labor disruption. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman was talking of “tweaking” the CBA and new NHL Players’ Association executive director Donald Fehr turned out to not be the bogeyman everyone portrayed him to be.

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