Jeff O'Neill
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I don't know enough about the...
Like that, because you just, yeah, you're coming back at it.
I was a player rep in the last one.
And I remember specifically, you know, hearing people feedback saying, we don't care about millionaires and billionaires.
We don't, we're not on a side.
We don't care if the players get extra or the, the owners get extra.
As a fan, you just want the product.
They just want to be able to watch their favorite team and go and enjoy the product.
And it was almost like, wake us up when it's over because you guys are fighting over the piece of the pie that the fan pays into.
That's really what it was.
So there wasn't a lot of sympathy for either side from the outside.
I remember feeling that as a player and as a player rep for the Florida Panthers at the time.
I sat down with the owner of the Panthers.
He was Alan Cohen, I think his name was.
I had dinner with him.
And I'd never played a game for the Florida Panthers.
I was their player rep.
I got a phone call going, we don't have a rep.
You're the rep.