I have been attached to the National Hockey League Fan Association since early in it’s existence - believing a unified voice representing the fans is necessary in Major League sports… Of course, that’s tougher than it looks because of the fact fans vary so much from coast to coast… Their likes, loyalties, pet peeves, observations and opinions on how things would be better/worse under certain conditions drives them (or should I say us, as I assume any person reading this blog is a fan)… It helps them band together and divide them all at the same time.

Jim Boone, co founder of the NHLFA, has been one to try to bridge that great divide between fans over the last five years. The group boasts just under 25 thousand members between Canada and the United States and had proposed to Gary Bettman and Bob Goodenow the idea of an independant mediator to help resolve the current labor strife.

With the 2004-05 season hanging in the balance and neither side of this labor dispute talking, Boltsmag asks Boone a few questions about the league, the labor war, and the NHLFA….
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