NHL’s last chance?

NHLPA president (and Vancouver Canucks center) Trevor Linden has invited representives of the NHL owners’ association to a secret meeting in an undisclosed location in a last ditch effort to save the hockey season, and by extension the NHL itself.

The players and owners have been locked in a labor dispute for months now, a dispute which to this point has seen the cancellation of every NHL game so far this season.

In a statement released by the NHLPA, the players made it clear that they are not changing their anti-salary cap stance, nor are they offering any new ideas. However, the invitation was not extended to the two main combatants in this dispute, union-chief Bob Goodenow, and NHL president Gary Bettman.

Let’s hope that with the abscence of those two immense egos, the season can be salvaged, and hockey be saved here in the United States.