While I go Play Hockey

read about why it's just as well the guys who get paid for it won't be doing it this year.

Wednesday's somber announcement was treated, particularly in Canada, as a mass funeral of sorts, and certainly, by giving the NHL the dubious achievement of being the only North American league to lose an entire season to labor strife, it was not a wonderful day for owners, players or the sport.

But blowing up the old to make way for the new has worked before, it seems to me.

I completely agree.