Hockey Legend Ted Lindsay speaks out about Lockout Damage to League -NHL Update
Ted Lindsay, a legendary hockey player and former member of the Detroit Red Wings’ squad, is definitely one of the saner voices fans have heard recently ever since the lockout kicked off officially on September 15, 2012, with the previous collective bargaining
agreement coming to an end.
In his first public statement, the legend directed players to cool down their tone when talking about National Hockey League (NHL) commissioner, Gary Bettman, who in the end, according to Lindsay, is just doing his job. Players took the wild side by terming
Bettman to be an “idiot”, while one even went as far to retweet the wish for his death, something he has to apologize for later on.
What the veteran now worries about is the potential damage the lockout has caused to the sport, which has gone to the extent of Canadians bad mouthing their national sport, something anyone could never have expected from them.
“When you see Canadians start to bad-mouth their national game, that tells you something is wrong,'' Lindsay said, according to mlive.com. “I never heard that before from any Canadians. Hockey is their game and they hate seeing what's happening to it.”
Even those who have been diehard and loyalists since the start, are beginning to get disheartened by seeing that there is literally no season in play and with it being the fourth time in 20 years that work has come to a halt, testing their patience is not
required anymore.
“I know many season ticket holders,'' Lindsay added. “They're getting older. They'll keep their tickets because they like the game, but when they get this aggravation from players and owners, four times in 20 years, these people have money and can afford
season tickets, but they don't want the aggravation in their life.''
It is hard for everyone to see that there is no hockey being played, but so little that can be done about it as both sides have various interests and keeping those are most important to the side.
Updates should be expected in the next couple of days as both sides continue to meet and negotiate.
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