Collective bargaining is a long an arduous process that mostly seems like a rhetorical high school debate catered for passionate individuals seeking to harm the opposition (I mean hey, aren’t we all here for the marks?). What marks translate into at the grown man’s game level is something that leads to nothing different than the outcomes we witness at the high school scenario.

The NHL and its Players’ Association claim to be interested in answering the question but have only been in a constant tug-of-war match for a while now. Making an agreement between two parties is one of the most interactive and constructive processes known. The motivation to start the season seems to be at an all-time low and it seems like the only way to get things done were to be if the two parties could meet in a compact room, be locked in, and make a deal. On the outlook of the situation, fans simply don’t have an alternative to watching the NHL. Rather, they, myself included, are forced to wonder how and why the process should be so difficult if the concluding result would be hockey “for the fans” anyways.

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