“Gary is cold and calculated, Fehr does the bemused guy really well: 'Isn’t it interesting?’ There’s a real style to what he does. He never gets upset, he never gets riled. He’s obviously a brilliant guy. He just continually says nope, nope, nope. The problem is, so does the other guy.

“Both [Bettman] and Fehr right now are showing extreme stubbornness that is a disaster to this process. They both work on the no, no, no principle. So if the deal is sitting there and there’s no dealmakers to make it, then the deal really isn’t sitting there. So the players have to decide, 'Are we really in this, and what is our end game?’”

-Ray Ferraro of TSN. More on this topic from Michael Russo of the Star Tribune.