Folks, I’m in my mid-30s. I’ve covered the Calgary Flames for 10 years and watched them for pretty much my entire life. We’re living in crazy times, once in a lifetime times, and this may be the first time in my recollection that the National Hockey League gets a new collective bargaining agreement without a work stoppage.
How? Seemingly through a cooperative relationship between the owners and the players, and the players playing their hand quite well.
In 2004, the players said they wouldn’t take a salary cap. Guess what? They lost a season and had a salary cap imposed on them.