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Originally Posted by Major Major

Took a quick look and couldn't find it... I forget who it was but the letter was memorable because it broke the veil of silence from the union. He also "penned" it in front of his fireplace while drinking Old Vienna or some other such beer. Maybe someone else will have better luck finding it or remembering it.

It was Krys Barch

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/spor...rticle4581018/

He has, almost overnight, become the voice of the locked-out NHL player, even as regular-season games are on the verge of being cancelled.

Far from a Sidney Crosby or Jonathan Toews, Krys Barch is one of the game's more unlikely spokesmen – one who has quite literally punched his ticket into the league and through a modest 304 games as a 12th forward on the end of the bench.

But Saturday night, Barch took to Twitter to vent his frustrations in a series of 26 messages that left the hockey world debating what he had said for much of the next two days.

It was colourful. It was alcohol-fuelled. It wasn't politically correct.

The last thing the New Jersey Devils enforcer expected was for it to become anything more than a one-off "rant from the heart," as he pondered his life in the game on his sofa in rural Grand Bend, Ont.

"It came out of drinking eight or 10 OV [Old Vienna beer] and a bottle of port just like so many other Canadians have done up at the cottage somewhere," Barch said on Monday with a chuckle. "Have some beers and thoughts start rolling through your head. I just grabbed a pen and started to write it down.