Donald Fehr has questioned the owners' offer with the skepticism of an Ivy League undergrad, ripping apart and overanalyzing every part of the conditions of yesterday's proposal. He cited that this most recent proposal would cost his crew $1.6 billion dollars over six years (in Mark Zuckerberg terms, $100 and a monocle, depending on FB stock value), a number which I assume was pulled out of The Amazing Mumford's hat and made mostly of thin air and fairy dust.
Or his figures are extremely accurate and I'm responding in a mostly bitter rebuttal because I saw in the faint distance the twinkling light of jumbotron LEDs reflected in arena ice. This has now has been tortuously replaced by the ominous and shadowy darkness, like a power outage during the zombie apocalypse or the appearance of No Heart, Gary Bettman's Care Bear likeness.
I know that Donald Fehr wants to do what's best for the players in the short term and maybe extending their golf lessons will accomplish that feat. But this is the same guy who was willing to give up a Fall Classic in 1994, who's to say he won't give up a Winter Classic to do the same. On a side note, I will say that it felt great to start that last sentence with the word "but". I hope Donald Fehr knows what he's doing, because I'm tired of yelling at my incompetent computerized Caps players missing passes and spinning in circles. I want to see them do that in real life.
Good luck, Donald Fehr.
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