Here's a list of all 'messages' in end-of-night posts:
Night 1:
Allcaps bold: Negotiations are not smooth here, we're not impressed.
Fancy gold: A Stanley Cup can do funny things to a player
Night 2:
Allcaps bold: Try and enjoy yourselves, you don't seem interested in leaving soon.
Fancy gold: We will kill until we win. We will win
Fancy grey: With a huge move, the players have tied it up in the second
Night 3:
Allcaps bold: Things are going to get worse before they get better.
Night 4:
Allcaps bold: Patience is a thing of the past, time to make up your mind.
Night 5:
Allcaps bold: What will be done now? Make your move.
Night 6:
Allcaps bold: You have taken care of one group, but you are not finished.
Fancy grey: This is Stazzy33, I am a player.
I've always assumed that the fancy text comes from players... Street Pharm likely for the gold (flavour-writer ability, and the night he was killed was the last night of gold text), and Stazzy33 for grey.
Stazzy, did you not send a message on night 4? Did you send a message and it was blocked?
The allcaps bold: I've always assumed that this is mod text, not poster-generated. If it's mod-generated, then we can probably trust that one group is finished. However, I'm not convinced that's a safe assumption. But I'm okay with assuming that for today.
The whole 'group behind the walls' thing, who would make sense for that? My first instinct is media. TSN has turned the whole NHL negotiations into a cut-throat reality TV show to fill their ratings void? Pierre McGuire is somewhere undercover amongst us?
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