The hockey media has started to turn some attention to hockey’s most rickety structure, not Ice Edge Holdings’ business plan, but the group known as the NHLPA. Reports have surfaced that the players association have completed their new constitution that would avoid the palace coups, public disagreements and blind side hits to leadership that are just as severe as any laid out on the ice in the past two decades. Simply put, it remains to be seen if the NHLPA will actually move away from this “divide ourselves and be conquered” and “devour your own leader” culture.The real news coming out of these reports is that the NHLPA just might hire former head of Major League Baseball Players Association, Donald Fehr. While other candidates are in the mix, the players will have a hard time not circumventing their brand new constitution by offering the job to Fehr instead of following their search committee due diligence.Some media outlets have already claimed that if Fehr becomes the new leader of the NHLPA then the NHL will have to scramble to ready themselves for the next CBA battle. Hockey writers are reporting that upon seeing their union combatant taking a more much aggressive stance in such a hire at the NHLPA that the NHL will be apprehensive at best.These same writers are OFFside in suggesting that the NHL is quaking in the boots while in Fehr’s midst. more »