We don’t hear much from the team owners, do we? What with their busy schedule of monocle fittings and afternoon harrumphings, they tend to let the commissioner do the talking. Still, they’re a delightful bunch. They’ve forced this lockout in part to create rules to stop themselves from signing hockey players to absurdly rich deals. So naturally, they spent the days preceding the lockout deadline frantically signing a bunch of players and, by accident, several pets and a 7-iron to absurdly rich deals. This makes roughly as much sense as stopping off to score some heroin on the way to rehab.

-Scott Feschuk of MACLEANS where you can read more on the lockout.