If the PA declines its option, and a lockout results, won't that be the first time it's happened that way? My recall is that previous CBAs just expired, and nobody triggered an option to have them end early.
If that's the case, this might be the first lockout where the PA starts out as the "bad guys" who are clearly "to blame" for there being no hockey. That's a whole different thing than previously.
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