The Party Canadian Society and Politics - NHL Lock-Out, government problem?

The Globe and Mail Writes: "Former National Hockey League goaltender Ken Dryden, now a member of Parliament, doesn't see a mediator's role for the federal government in the labour dispute between the NHL and the NHL Players' Association."

It is not the place of the Canadian government to step in and try to fix the NHL's problems. The NHL itself has turned its back on Canada by making the teams too expensive. No matter what Bettman might say he was the person who put this in motion. Canadians will be better off supporting the smaller leagues in their areas. I like going to a Q game every once in a while, and usually 3 of the top ten University teams are right here in the Maritimes. These people play hockey because they love it, not because it will make them rich, well most of them do, and it shows it on the ice. The NHL only has good hockey in teh play-offs, or the run to the play-offs. These are the only games that matter to these guys, because fothe Sanley cup. the rest of the games they get paid either way, and get paid well.

Also have you ever heard of a union that will let its members go work somewhere else when there is a lock-out or strike. Can you imagine if there was a lock-out of the carpenters in CB, and they went and took all of the jobs in the Mainland. There would be murder. But that is exactly what the NHL players are doing. They are going overseas to play with the teams there because they CAN not because tehy need to. And they are aking the places of people who need to play to survive.

So I say let the strike go on, sure I miss it alittle, but I am fed up with the whole process, and think it is time that the everyone involved will be cut down to size. Do you think the precious US markets care that there is no NHL, nope, and it is starting to turn out that there are few Canadians worried about it either. It will be a LONG time before people are going to be filling the arenas at the ticket prices they were at before.