Not likely, unfortunately. Public opinion is firmly on the side of the players and it will be easy for them to sit out training camp/ preseason since they don't get paid for that time period anyway. It's hard to know what the owners are thinking since they aren't allowed to talk to the media but I'd guess that the one's that are making money aren't interested in fixing the profit sharing scheme to subsidize the crappy franchises if they think that they can get the players to take a pay cut. Looking at what happened in the NFL and NBA the owners eventually got the players to agree to less money but it took weeks/ months rather than days. Yeah I really just don't get the owners' position. The players caved big time in the last lockout. The owners got their cap. Revenue has gone through the roof in the last few years, and now the owners come back and claim the players are taking too much. When it's them, the owners, giving out dumb-assed contracts to guys like Matt Carle and Evander Kane.