I won't come down. The players know that. Only the owners can make a proposal.

[Many players are convinced that owners are attempting to divide the NHLPA. The owners' latest proposal called for players making less than $800,000 to maintain their current salaries while players making more than $5 million cut their salaries by 35 percent. If owners want to splinter the union, they're not going to be successful, Brendan Shanahan said.] The hockey mentality is that when we're challenged, we grow tighter together, ... One player or two might speak out and it might reflect (poorly) on the union, but 99 percent of the union will band together.

I know what it is to be an owner. The more owners get, the more the players want. I don't want to see what happened to other sports happen to fishing,

We're very concerned. We've requested the tapes [of the game] so we can look at them. Bur our medical adviser called me and said he couldn't believe they didn't notice Kurt had a concussion.

As they say, the clock is ticking and at least they realize that. Basically, though, we're at the same point.

We want to have a higher percentage. We want more dollars to come into the system.