OAKVILLE, Ont. — As Donald Fehr holds court in front of the lush Glen Abbey Golf Club putting green, the darkening purple skies over his right shoulder are ominous indeed.
Just like the storm clouds critics suggest are forming over Fehr’s National Hockey League players association, which is dealing with hot button topics ranging from potential labour strife in 2020 to the backlash of non-NHL participation in the 2018 Olympics to recent suggestions from a handful of certified agents that some players are dissatisfied with the union’s hierarchy.
Truth be told, after more than three decades representing the interests of athletes, Fehr, the NHLPA's executive director, doesn't see all the doom and gloom others do.