21.   More important, he believes the league must do everything possible to slow the rapidly escalating cost of tickets.

22.   Now the league has done an about-face and officials are ignoring even the most obvious hooking and holding penalties in a misguided attempt at speeding up games.

23.   Or roll, as in down the drain, which many football leagues have done in the past.

24.   One only wonders what the league would have done if a fan were guilty of the same actions.

25.   Short of hiring a roving power-play coach, what will the league do?

26.   Several player agents are convinced the league will do something, including, but not limited to, a lockout.

27.   That the NHL is offering any assistance is probably more than the league should do.

28.   The league would do well to add him to the Gary Bettman regime.

29.   The glamor league does it differently, however.

30.   The Japanese leagues likely will do everything they can to keep their best players.