NHL one dollar away from deal with players

50-50 is quite a climb-down for the toffs who run the NHL.

It's an acknowledgement that the players are at least equal partners.

They need to spend one more dollar, and it's a symbolic dollar. Give the players 50% plus one dollar.

That's a symbolic acknowledgement that without the players there is no game.

Like most other hockey fans, I couldn't care less it Crosby or some Russian makes 6.9 million or 5.9 million or 12 million or 3 million next year.

I don't give a shit for the particulars.

But goddammit, I care about the principles. The workers need a bigger slice of the pie than the owners.

That symbolic dollar will do it.

Let's play hockey!