It looks like NHLPA head Bob Goodenow is losing control of his membership. Because it's one thing when you're called out by Juraj Kolnik and Andrew Ference.
But it's another thing entirely when a team's rep to the NHLPA speaks out. And it's all the more trouble when the guy doing the speaking is former NHL MVP and Norris Trophy winner Chris Pronger:
"If all the energy we've seen being wasted on public relations could be spent negotiating a deal, we could probably be halfway done a deal," Pronger told the Peterborough Examiner."Realistically, who cares whose side you are on, neither one of us looks good," said Pronger, winner of the Hart Trophy as the league MVP and Norris Trophy as top defenceman in 2000.
No meetings between the NHL and the union have taken place since the lockout began on Sept. 15 and no talks are scheduled for the foreseeable future
So they’re talking “drop dead” date on WFAN right now – no details, but it’s apparently seriously come into discussions on the league/owner side of the game.