is no evidence that the owners are anything but solidly behind Bettman. What Recchi and Therien seemed to be questioning is whether rigid solidarity alone will get the players where they want to be. Or make up for the millions in lost wages they'll never get back. Why can't the observers accept that the players may very well KNOW exactly how much money they're going to lose this year? What they don't want to give up is their ability to maximize their earnings individually as soon as they can, and at a time when they're most valuable. " I guess I would say it?s an uninformed answer, unless he?s now tied in with ownership somewhere, or wants to get involved with ownership, and trying to take that side" See, these guys just don't make sense. For one, how was Recchi's comment uninformed? What exactly did Recchi say that would suggest that he wasn't making use of the information available to form and express his opinion? Phillips, do you know what an uninformed answer/opinon is? His entire response seems to heavily draw on his own experience of being in the EXACT same position. Does that sound like not using information to form your opinion? And because Recchi doesn't agree with the PA strategy, they have to undermine his position as though it can't be objective. Why would he try to take the owners side just because he wants to or is an owner? Phillips comment suggests that Recchi has something to