Week 17 couldn't have gone much better as we posted a perfect 3-and-O mark on home ice. For a home team, feeding off the energy of the partisan crowd and getting last change, (so we could get the matchups we wanted), were always big pluses, but now we'd be put to the test without any of those advantages. A five game eastern road trip lay dead ahead, and we'd have to be sharp to avoid tailing off.
The travel schedule called for us to be spending a fair bit of time in and around New York, so after speaking with Arthur Griffiths (who also sat on the Board of Governors), we got the go ahead to stop by the league office in search of labor updates. Since the meeting in Vancouver, the league had been pretty tight-lipped, but we were hoping to shake some info loose. (Or at least get a sense of how things were going).
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Week: 17