At almost playoff-like intensity, emotions run hot in a lockout. NHL management and teams, individual players and the players association are spending more time, sadly, trying to shape public perception and win the public relations war than they are trying to negotiate a lockout-smiting Collective Bargaining Agreement. Eventually, this will change. In quieter days ahead, [...]
About Wayne Scanlan
It has been my pleasure to carry a flag for the Citizen sports department for 25 years, and a privilege to write a column since 1991. As the NHL Senators took over our town, I shifted in the mid-1990s from a general sports columnist to a mostly hockey guy. Representing this newspaper and its chain I have covered men's and women's hockey at several Olympic Games. London was my 10th Olympic assignment, as part of the Postmedia team at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in England.
Along the ride I have been fortunate to cover the Tour de France, twice, and numerous Stanley Cup playoffs and Grey Cup championships. The Senators will dictate further travel plans.
For people of reason and common sense, the circumstances of the pending NHL lockout are maddening. A league that has grown in prosperity and wealth into a $3.3 billion business, largely on the backs of loyal hockey fans, shuts down operations in a fight over the proceeds, dangerously testing the faith of those fans yet [...]
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