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Originally Posted by Monahammer
Presumably, reduced overhead allows the owners to consider alternate delivery methods (i.e. the bubble, or smaller bubbles) that they would be unable to act upon under the current MOU without causing considerable material damage to their businesses.
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Indeed. But "causing considerable material damage to their businesses" isn't the test for invoking force majeure clauses.
There is, I think, a reasonable (but totally unrelated to force majeure) argument that it is in the best interests of the players to make accommodations for the long term health of the league. However, I think, based on the history of labour relations in the NHL (and particularly the adversarial stance taken by the league in most instances), that is going to be a pretty tough sell to the NHLPA.
All that said, I do think the parties resolve the issue and that we see NHL hockey starting in mid-to-late January.