Lessons from a lock-out
Hockey players are less than indispensable
EVER since members of a British naval expedition picked up sticks and ventured on to the Arctic ice to play Canada's first recorded game of hockey in 1825, Canadians have embraced the sport with passion. Along with the health service, hockey is a cornerstone of Canadian identity. That may explain why the expected end of a ten-month dispute which shut down the National Hockey League (NHL) was greeted by the media as if it were the Second Coming.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Lessons from a lock-out”
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