from Scott Burnside of ESPN,

The league continues to be hammered in various media -- those that still care enough to turn its attention to a game that can’t help but repeat its own labor follies -- while the question of how much damage has been done to the once-thriving game looms large with the season hanging in the balance.

It is imperative that the league and its players come to some sort of resolution to see hockey return this season.

Lose another whole season with legal battles looming and who knows what kind of lunar landscape awaits, which is why many believe the two sides will find a resolution in the final frame of this sordid drama.

But while we wait for that elusive moment, the weight continues to build on the back of a league and a game whose shame apparently knows no bounds.

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