Getty ImagesAccording to NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly, the NHL has lost upwards of $720 million in revenue due to the cancellation of the 2012-13 schedule thus far. The lockout lingers. There's no end in sight. Unless one side blinks.

[Related: Winter Classic likely to be axed this week, according to report]

It's naïve to think that every NHL owner is in lock-step with the League in this work stoppage. But their voices don't matter, either because the teams they own aren't critical to the League's bottom line or because they owe Bettman a favor for getting them into ownership in the first place.

It's even more naïve to think the players are all in lock-step with the NHLPA braintrust, because more and more of them seem edgy about their futures. Did you read Jack Johnson's screed against the owners on his official (NHL.com powered, ironically) blog? The opening line wasn't "[expletive] the owners" or "rollback, schmollback"; it was:

"I want to work! I'm a professional athlete and I want to play hockey."

Translation: I want to play in the NHL.

He's not alone, and NHLPA executive director confirmed as much with Michael Russo of the Star Tribune on Monday during a Q&A session. They're worried.

Is this what Pekka Rinne's life is going the look like without Ryan Suter to help bail him out this season?

Rinne, the Nashville Predators' franchise goaltender, is playing for Dinamo Minsk of the KHL during the NHL lockout. In a game on Monday against Metallurg Magnitogorsk, Rinne went to the corner to his right to play the puck as Enver Lisin — former New York Rangers and Phoenix Coyotes forward — barreled in on the forecheck.

[Slideshow: #NickInEurope photo diary, featuring Ovechkin, Malkin and Datsyuk]

Rinne fumbled the puck; Lisin applied pressure and stole it; and Minsk defenseman Corey Murphy (formerly of the New Jersey Devils) was unable to stop the slam-dunk tuck into the net for a 2-0 lead.

Metallurg won the game, 7-2. Rinne was pulled for Ari Ahonen in the second period when the score was 4-1.

Boy, first he loses the EA Sports cover vote to Giroux, and now this …

Here's additional footage of the gaffe. Rinne is 5-6-0 with a goals against average of 2.78 and a .906 save percentage. Or as they call it in the KHL, "Vezina Favorite."

@cotsonikaHere are your Puck Headlines: a glorious collection of news and views collected from the greatest blogosphere in sports and the few, the proud, the mainstream hockey media.

• If you're not following Nick Cotsonika's Russian adventures on Twitter, you're missing moments like this that could severely impact his marriage.

• Check out his story on Paul Maurice coaching in the KHL. It's a keeper. [Y!]

• There were a few people waiting for Alex Ovechkin's autograph today. And by "a few" we mean "well over a thousand." [Alex Ovetjkin]

• Nick Kypreos believes that there's a "silent majority" of NHL owners who don't want to continue the lockout with a suitable deal on the table: "Ask many NHL owners outside of this small circle and if they answer truthfully they'll tell you they know as much of what's going on as you or me. Some teams will also tell you a two- to three-year slope toward 50/50 split works just fine, and to potentially burn the whole village down in an effort to keep fighting for teams like Phoenix and Florida is just plain wrong. Like McCabe and Walker in 2004, many owners' frustration lies in not having their voice heard when it matters most." [Sportsnet]

• On the NHL vs. Donald Fehr, and anonymous source tells CSN Philly: "The league was up against rank amateurs last time," said one person intimately familiar with the inner workings of the NHL. This guy is the consummate pro. Cool Hand Luke. He has no tell. A great poker face. Has buy-in from the players. And rarely dabbles in rhetoric. If he does, there's a message and a purpose behind it. And the league has no idea what do with a guy like this." [CSN Philly]

• Jack Johnson's impassioned plea, posted on his official Columbus Blue Jackets' player page "I don't have until I am 60 or 70 years old to do this job. My window of opportunity to play professional hockey is limited. If I'm lucky, I can play until I'm 40. I have been training as a hockey player my entire life, and I know it is a privilege to play in the NHL. So each month, each week, and each game that is cancelled is an opportunity I will never get back." [JMFJ]

• Former NHLPA boss Paul Kelly thinks expansion should be on the table in the CBA talks: "If the NHLPA hasn't raised it as a potential part of the solution, then it ought to," Kelly said. "Maybe they've tried and had the door slammed in their face from what we're seeing, but it really makes a great deal of sense." [THN]

• Roberto Luongo on trade talk with the Vancouver Canucks: "Obviously, when the time comes and I do have to make a decision we'll make one with the best interests for myself, the team and all that kind of stuff. But for now I think my focus is just on being ready to play no matter where that is." [QMI]

The Coventry Blaze and Cardiff Devils of the British Elite Ice Hockey League played a contentious Challenge Cup game on Sunday evening that saw several controversial penalties called -- and it ended with both teams getting physical after the postgame handshakes. So yeah, quite the rivalry.

But what's led to a League investigation of the postgame pleasantries is this incident between a Cardiff fan and a Coventry player:

As the video shows, Blaze defenseman Benn Olson — formerly of the Albany River Rats, Bridgeport Sound Tigers and Ontario Reign of the ECHL — skated over after a postgame fight and was drawn into an altercation with a fan. Blaze defenseman Mike Egener skated in to make the save, sparking a wild scene.

According to the BBC, South Wales police were called by the fan to claim he had been assaulted by a player, but the officers decided that the fan had "instigated the altercation" and was egged on by friends to get into the brawl.

From the BBC:

South Wales Police confirmed they were called to the Cardiff Devils game by a spectator who complained about being assaulted by a player. The force spokeswoman said further questioning by officers revealed the complainant had instigated the altercation and he was given advice about his behaviour.

Neither the player concerned nor the club wanted to take the matter further so the incident has been closed, she added.

But the Devils did take some action of their own after the incident: They've banned the spectator from attending any Cardiff games for the remainder of the season.

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Getty ImagesThe NHL's offices in New York are closed on Monday due to Hurricane Sandy, as Gary Bettman and Donald Fehr rent themselves out to coastal areas in need of massive amounts of sandbagging.

But when the storm passes, another blast of cold air will hit NHL fans: The Winter Classic is expected to be canceled on Thursday, according to Katie Strang of ESPN.com and the scuttlebutt we're heard elsewhere Monday.

This has been in the cards for weeks, obviously, as the cancellation of the schedule stretched through November. It's become less a concern that the NHL couldn't pull off the event in a truncated schedule — it totally could, even if the Classic kicked off a shortened 2012-13 season — than whether the NHL should attempt to stage the game with a proper run-up of marketing and with the bitter aftertaste of the lockout affected the good vibes of the annual event.

We shall miss you, awesome Winter Classic jerseys. At least for a year.

Getty ImagesRyan Suter took a stand last week.

The Minnesota Wild defenseman was asked by Craig Custance of ESPN The Magazine about the NHL's owners negotiating in bad faith, given the contracts they handed out and the reduction of the players' share of revenues for which they're asking.

Suter believed the owners were, in fact, negotiating in bad faith — and targeted his new owner Craig Leipold in the process:

"It's disappointing. If you can't afford to (sign contracts) then you shouldn't do it," Suter said. "(Leipold) signed us to contracts. At the time he said everything was fine. Yeah, it's disappointing. A couple months before, everything is fine, and now they want to take money out of our contracts that we already signed."

Whammy! Great stuff from Suter, who was one of the only NHLPA members bold enough to take on the person signing his checks.

[Related: Winter Classic expected to be canceled on Thursday, according to report]

Oh, wait, he totally backtracked less than 48 hours later, didn't he?

Monique Lamoureux, Jenny Potter and Jocelyne Lamoureux from April 2010/Getty ImagesGRAND FORKS, ND — "Don't mention the Sedins."

That was our mantra before speaking with Jocelyne and Monique Lamoureux, U.S. Olympic silver medalists and senior stars for the University of North Dakota. It's the inevitable, clichéd comparison that befalls every pair of hockey twins.

It's not even applicable in their case. The Lamoureux's aren't carbon copies like the Vancouver Canucks' Swedes. While both can play forward, Monique Lamoureux has been featured on defense for UND. Also, they're not totally creepy.

What they are: The spawn of Pierre and Linda Lamoureux of Grand Forks, two of six children that have gone on to play collegiate hockey. The family was featured in a memorable 2010 article by Gary Smith in Sports Illustrated, which chronicled how Jocelyne and Monique honed their hockey skills by competing with their ruthless (on the ice, at least) brothers.

We caught up with the Lamoureux twins, 23, in Grand Forks last week, discussing the 2014 Sochi Games, their rivalry with Team Canada, hockey idols and social media. (Our discussion about the end of the Fighting Sioux nickname will appear in a later piece.

But first, a bit about a prank war with the men's team …

Q. We've been trying to get a sense of the dynamic between the men's and women's teams on campus.

Monique: [Laughs] There's a bit of a prank war going on at the moment.

Jocelyne: We haven't really taken part in one …

You national teamers have to stay above the fray. Got it.

Jocelyne: [Laughs] I think we're winning it. But I know Mary's [Loken] car was filled with leaves.

Monique: She leaves her keys in the car, so they took it and moved it. And when she found it, they had filled it up with leaves all the way to the [roof].

Jocelyne: But [the women players] put two cans of sardines in one of the guys' cars. Just, like, stuffed them in the cushions. They were trying to air out the car last night. It's like marinated in there.

Monique: [The prank] we did last night was similar to 'Billy Madison'.

Flaming bag of poop?

Monique: Yeah.

Where does one get the poop?

Monique and Jocelyne: [In near unison] Dog.