NY Times article revealing

A recent NY Times article mentions two interesting aspects of the current lockout, which now appears to be a done deal.

First Bill Clement says that the NHL players in Sweden don't care about their teams. Actually, he couldn't be more incorrect. Look at Peter Forsberg; even if there was an NHL season he would probably be with Modo trying to win a Swedish Championship. He cares a great deal and in some ways winning a title in his home town means more to him than the Stanley Cup. But even Canadians like Sean Horcoff play their hearts out. He has been brilliant with Mora making this new team a force to be reckoned with.

Clement is just plain wrong.

Secondly, the Swedish League failed to price their games realistically to make it on to television in America. This was dumb. They have a good product and they could make some money next year since there will again be no NHL. So they need to have a new proposal for this year's playoffs and price it so that it gets viewers in North America, and keeps them through next year.