Before the lockout began it was more or less established that public opinion was not going to be the lever that moved the negotiations one way or another. The loss of hockey is not the Arab Spring; it is not even Occupy Wall Street. For starters, you can camp out in lower Manhattan for months before you even approach the stink produced by a well-worn hockey bag.

But this week stunk for the NHL, too. Worse than the hockey bags would, by a mile.

-Bruce Arthur of the National Post where you can read more on this topic.