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NHL lockout -We should make a petition .

Vote for petition

  • Nik 3

    Votes: 11 61.1%
  • hockeyfan1

    Votes: 7 38.9%

  • Total voters
    18

13th fan

New member
I would like to get a petition drafted by the members of this board to express are feelings and ideas on the NHL lockout and we could vote on the winning petition . I know there are members of TMLfans could pen this in their sleep , l being not one them  :(. We could post a link on every social networks sites. Just tired being unheard hockey fan .They treat us like we are like crackheads and that we will keep coming back for more
 
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all fans are created equal(except for Senators fans, see 3/5th's rule), that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are being able are watching hockey, reading about hockey and to do so on our schedule independent of labour disputes. That to secure these rights, hockey leagues are instituted among men, deriving their just dollars from the consent of the fanbase - That when any league or players association becomes destructive of these ends it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish them and to institute a new hockey league laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them to seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that the National Hockey League should not be changed for light and transient causes and accordingly all experience hath shewn that fans are presupposed to suffer while evils are sufferable(see Ballard, Harold) than by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurptions pursuing invariably the same object(lockouts in '94 and '04 and probably in two weeks) evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism it is their right, their duty, to throw off the NHL and NHLPA and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these hockey fans, Winnipeg in particular, and such now is the necessity that constrains them to alter their former allegiance to these jerkwads. The history of the present King of Great Britain Commissioner of the National Hockey League is a history of repeated injuries and usurptions all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over the Good Ol' Hockey Game. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world:

- He will have locked out the players three times

- He has put teams in Phoenix, Miami and Columbus for some reason

- He allowed the Whalers and Nordiques to be removed, and the Stars and Jets be replaced by lamer versions of their former selves

- He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

- He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

- He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them

*The last three were just C&P'd but they kind of apply, no?

- For failing to realize that the cancellation of the hockey season will lead to time spent in self-examination or, worse, spent talking to wives and/or girlfriends.

- Seriously, bring back the Whalers.

In every stage of these oppressions we have internet petitioned for redress in the most humble terms. Our repeated internet petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince Commish who whose character is thus marked by by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to lead a multi-billion dollar industry that lords over a free people group of suckers such as ourselves.

Nor have we been wanting in our attention to the players and the owners. We buy their overpriced tickets and beers. We buy their jerseys and pretend not to notice they're mainly all kind of d-bags. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity(alright, so that C&P doesn't work). They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the CFL, as only something to watch when there's really nothing else to do.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united Hockey Fans of the world, staring at our computer screens in our underpants assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World(Brendan Shanahan?) for the rectitude of our intentions do in the name and authority of the good people who would rather not have to watch basketball in the winter, solemnly publish and declare that we fans are independent of the NHL and the players association, are free to be consumers of other sports leagues and hockey games, and that all connection between us is severed(until 15 minutes after you reach a deal, at which point Yay Leafs, boo Habs!) and as free and independent people who aren't shackled to the tyranny of HNIC or the NHL's centre ice package are free to go outside, enjoy nature, actually play a game of hockey ourselves and enrich our lives with physical and spiritual pursuits that will make us healthier, happier and more productive and charitable members of our communities(I mean, we won't, but we're free to). And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor(Except Flyers fans, Screw the lot of you)

Sincerely,

Nik Jefferson
 
Here's mine straignt to the point                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      BRING MY HOCKEY BACK YOU SOB'S
 
Nik? said:
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all fans are created equal(except for Senators fans, see 3/5th's rule), that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are being able are watching hockey, reading about hockey and to do so on our schedule independent of labour disputes. That to secure these rights, hockey leagues are instituted among men, deriving their just dollars from the consent of the fanbase - That when any league or players association becomes destructive of these ends it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish them and to institute a new hockey league laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them to seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that the National Hockey League should not be changed for light and transient causes and accordingly all experience hath shewn that fans are presupposed to suffer while evils are sufferable(see Ballard, Harold) than by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurptions pursuing invariably the same object(lockouts in '94 and '04 and probably in two weeks) evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism it is their right, their duty, to throw off the NHL and NHLPA and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these hockey fans, Winnipeg in particular, and such now is the necessity that constrains them to alter their former allegiance to these jerkwads. The history of the present King of Great Britain Commissioner of the National Hockey League is a history of repeated injuries and usurptions all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over the Good Ol' Hockey Game. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world:

- He will have locked out the players three times

- He has put teams in Phoenix, Miami and Columbus for some reason

- He allowed the Whalers and Nordiques to be removed, and the Stars and Jets be replaced by lamer versions of their former selves

- He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

- He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

- He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them

*The last three were just C&P'd but they kind of apply, no?

- For failing to realize that the cancellation of the hockey season will lead to time spent in self-examination or, worse, spent talking to wives and/or girlfriends.

- Seriously, bring back the Whalers.

In every stage of these oppressions we have internet petitioned for redress in the most humble terms. Our repeated internet petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince Commish who whose character is thus marked by by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to lead a multi-billion dollar industry that lords over a free people group of suckers such as ourselves.

Nor have we been wanting in our attention to the players and the owners. We buy their overpriced tickets and beers. We buy their jerseys and pretend not to notice they're mainly all kind of d-bags. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity(alright, so that C&P doesn't work). They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the CFL, as only something to watch when there's really nothing else to do.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united Hockey Fans of the world, staring at our computer screens in our underpants assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World(Brendan Shanahan?) for the rectitude of our intentions do in the name and authority of the good people who would rather not have to watch basketball in the winter, solemnly publish and declare that we fans are independent of the NHL and the players association, are free to be consumers of other sports leagues and hockey games, and that all connection between us is severed(until 15 minutes after you reach a deal, at which point Yay Leafs, boo Habs!) and as free and independent people who aren't shackled to the tyranny of HNIC or the NHL's centre ice package are free to go outside, enjoy nature, actually play a game of hockey ourselves and enrich our lives with physical and spiritual pursuits that will make us healthier, happier and more productive and charitable members of our communities(I mean, we won't, but we're free to). And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor(Except Flyers fans, Screw the lot of you)

Sincerely,

Nik Jefferson

This may just work.
 
Dear Mr. Bettman,

As an avid and die-hard hockey fan residing in the city of Toronto, Canada, I, along with scores of other hockey aficionados (be it friends, acquaintances, relatives, etc.,) from all walks of life, are feeling disheartened over a potential lockout.

As it is understood, there are varying degrees of differences between the two negotiating parties as things now stand, much to the trepidation and angst experienced by fans of the NHL, not just here in Canada, or,more aptly, North America, but also by fans worldwide who take an interest in the league due to either a favourite team or player from that player's respective country.

It is not for me to sound intrusive or spiteful, nor hateful or demeaning, but to let you know that we fans feel 'disengaged', for want of a better word, from everything that the league and hockey mean to us. 

Yes, the fans have returned in droves, as evidenced by increased attendance & ticket sales, after each subsequent lockouts past. It is as though, these lockouts did little to dissuade the true fan ( and even the 'casual' fan) from their love of the game in more ways than one.

Perhaps, it may be safe to intone that another lockout for the league will be a safe and sensible thing to do, in consideration of the fact that hockey fans will always return once again.

They probably will.  Or, this time, they may not as much as it is to be believed.  It would be appreciated if the league realizes the value of their customers, the fans,  and not take it for granted each and every time (in light of a lockout).  Fans in Canada will always crave for the best game in the world. Fans elsewhere will probably too. Then again, that one is open to debate.

Mr. Bettman, I urge you to please consider the most important people who help make the NHL the world's number one professional hockey organization -- those who timelessy continue supporting it again and again and again.

Thank you for taking the time and patience in reading my letter.

Sincerely,

Lora D.
P.S. Commendations to you on your continuing success as NHL commissioner.  I hope that the same success can be applied to end the negotiations stalemate.

  - Lora.

P.S.S. At time of writing, the lockout was not yet in effect.  But now that it is, I do hope a compromise can still be reached so as not to jeopardize the remainder of what is beginning to look like a hopelessly lost season.

Once again, in sincerity,

Lora D.
 
Nik? said:
leafplasma said:
This may just work.

Don't all sign at once. I'm looking at you, Button Gwinnett.
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Nik? said:
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all fans are created equal(except for Senators fans, see 3/5th's rule), that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are being able are watching hockey, reading about hockey and to do so on our schedule independent of labour disputes. That to secure these rights, hockey leagues are instituted among men, deriving their just dollars from the consent of the fanbase - That when any league or players association becomes destructive of these ends it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish them and to institute a new hockey league laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them to seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that the National Hockey League should not be changed for light and transient causes and accordingly all experience hath shewn that fans are presupposed to suffer while evils are sufferable(see Ballard, Harold) than by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurptions pursuing invariably the same object(lockouts in '94 and '04 and probably in two weeks) evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism it is their right, their duty, to throw off the NHL and NHLPA and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these hockey fans, Winnipeg in particular, and such now is the necessity that constrains them to alter their former allegiance to these jerkwads. The history of the present King of Great Britain Commissioner of the National Hockey League is a history of repeated injuries and usurptions all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over the Good Ol' Hockey Game. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world:

- He will have locked out the players three times

- He has put teams in Phoenix, Miami and Columbus for some reason

- He allowed the Whalers and Nordiques to be removed, and the Stars and Jets be replaced by lamer versions of their former selves

- He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

- He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

- He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them

*The last three were just C&P'd but they kind of apply, no?

- For failing to realize that the cancellation of the hockey season will lead to time spent in self-examination or, worse, spent talking to wives and/or girlfriends.

- Seriously, bring back the Whalers.

In every stage of these oppressions we have internet petitioned for redress in the most humble terms. Our repeated internet petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince Commish who whose character is thus marked by by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to lead a multi-billion dollar industry that lords over a free people group of suckers such as ourselves.

Nor have we been wanting in our attention to the players and the owners. We buy their overpriced tickets and beers. We buy their jerseys and pretend not to notice they're mainly all kind of d-bags. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity(alright, so that C&P doesn't work). They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the CFL, as only something to watch when there's really nothing else to do.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united Hockey Fans of the world, staring at our computer screens in our underpants assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World(Brendan Shanahan?) for the rectitude of our intentions do in the name and authority of the good people who would rather not have to watch basketball in the winter, solemnly publish and declare that we fans are independent of the NHL and the players association, are free to be consumers of other sports leagues and hockey games, and that all connection between us is severed(until 15 minutes after you reach a deal, at which point Yay Leafs, boo Habs!) and as free and independent people who aren't shackled to the tyranny of HNIC or the NHL's centre ice package are free to go outside, enjoy nature, actually play a game of hockey ourselves and enrich our lives with physical and spiritual pursuits that will make us healthier, happier and more productive and charitable members of our communities(I mean, we won't, but we're free to). And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor(Except Flyers fans, Screw the lot of you)

Sincerely,

Nik Jefferson

*wild applause*
Post of the Day.

Quite possibly, Post of the Month
 
Guru Tugginmypuddah said:
GRAB YOUR TORCH AND PITCHFORKS!  WE WILL MARCH ON THE OFFICES OF THE NHL!!!!

(there will be punch and pie afterwards)
If a zippo and bbq fork counts ,I am in ! .....and what kinds of pie?
 
Good work by both of you in composing your letters. They are quite good. :)

Personally, I am trying to decide what to do in the event of a lockout. The only thing I can really take away is my eyes and ears (watching or listening to the games). I will continue to come here to post - TMLfans has become more about the community to me, and that is something I am not ready to give up because some other people are arguing over millions of dollars. :)
 
It sounds as they the players are far better prepared for a lockout now than they were in 04-05. Which as far as hockey fans are concerned, is a bad thing. Players and owners are firmly entrenched in their positions and will likely be a while before anyone concedes anything.

As long as Bettman is at the helm this is going to be status quo.

If there were some immediate and significant way that we the fans could impact the wallets of the NHL in a negative way, I would be all for doing that. This billionaires fighting millionaries crap is getting old and mostly at the expense of the rest of us, the day to day citizen.

I can't sit through another year of sportscentre covering texas hold'em. I just can't do it.
 
Dear Bettman,

Congratulations on your hat-trick. You're the first comissioner to lockout 3 seasons.

In Case of a 2004-05 repeat, PLEASE do the magic you made with the Pittsburgh Penguins and let the Leafs win the draft and select Nathan MacKinnon or Aleksander Barkov.

>:(
 

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