He's spot on - both sides need to get this done.

--- Mike <orrcollector@...> wrote:
>
> Bobby Orr is calling on National Hockey League Commissioner Gary
> Bettman and players union executive director Bob Goodenow to ``get
> out
> of the way'' if they can't solve the impasse that triggered the
> cancellation of the NHL's season.
>
> In a column written for the Sunday Eagle-Tribune, the 1970s hockey
> star wrote, ``Our sport is in danger of becoming irrelevant unless
> both sides immediately put an end to this nonsense.''
>
> Orr said in his column published Sunday that he initially resisted
> the
> urge to comment on the labor dispute and resulting shutdown of the
> NHL's season because he believed the two sides would resolve their
> differences for the good of the game.
>
> But he said he no longer believes either side was interested in
> getting a fair deal done.
>
> Owners and players must demand that Bettman and Goodenow meet
> immediately, and keep meeting until they emerge with either an
> agreement or a statement that they can't resolve their differences
> and
> they are stepping aside, Orr wrote.
>
> Representatives of the owners and the players union have met better
> than three dozen times since their collective bargaining agreement
> expired last Sept. 15, the day Bettman declared the lockout that
> ended
> the season. The two sides have failed to resolve differences that
> made
> the NHL the first major sports league in North America to lose an
> entire season to a labor dispute.
>
> Orr, 57, still lives in Boston and operates a hockey player sports
> agency. The married father of two grown sons remains one of the most
> revered figures in hockey. His No. 4 Bruins jersey was retired by the
> team in 1979 after a brilliant career cut short by a bad knee.
>
>
>
>

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