Bravo Gary Bettman!!

Sincerely, I could not have been happier with yesterdays news. The fact that the union made the drastic concession that it would accept a salary cap made Gary's next move obvious, and I'm surprised most people missed it. If you spend all this time and effort preparing for Armageddon, if you waste the majority of a season and the damage is already done, why settle? There is absolutely no reason to accept anything but total concession by the players now, and the only way to make all the pain worth it is to succeed unconditionally which the players made inevitable by blinking first.
As for all the bleating that maybe Gary should have been "nicer" in his final letter to the union, wipe your noses and grow up. The union pushed the league into this wasted season, the union members and their apologists are on an all out personal assault against Gary, for them to want a little sugar now is pathetic. I support the owners 100 percent and will be the first one in the door if there are games with replacement players in the fall. Gary is the one continually going to bat for this market and I will repay him in every way I can, not the bastards in the union who every single day say the league would be better if the league contracted some of it's weaker (read small market) teams.
It looks so good on the players; I hope they wear it well!!