text: "So hockey skipped over the settlement/acknowledgment stage and went straight to its final card, the players. They were just as resistant as NFLers to rewriting The Code."
  I've never been able to figure out why the players (even through their union, the NHLPA) haven't pushed for rule changes to protect themselves.
  In the end, I just stopped watching, not that I was ever spending big bucks on the sport to begin with.