‘”My sense a week or two ago was that they were still very hopeful that they would get a settlement done here and reach an agreement prior to the start of the season,” TSN’s Darren Dreger said with Martin Biron and Craig Rivet on The Instigators on Friday. “There’s still that possibility, but I’m now getting the sense that, from a player’s perspective, he’s okay starting the season without a contract extension in place.”‘