Jordan Eberle remembers the roller-coaster. It wasn’t an enjoyable ride.

Unsettled about the present. Unsure about the future. Unable to really plan ahead.

With a pair of NHL seasons already under his belt more than a decade ago, Eberle was gearing up for a campaign that had massive clouds hanging overhead — an impending work stoppage.

The league and the NHL Players’ Association had previously gone to labour war back in 2004-05 in a showdown that eventually forced the cancellation of the entire schedule as the two sides squabbled over hockey’s financial future.

Another lockout did indeed take hold from September 2012 until January 2013. Eberle would play the first half of that season for the Edmonton Oilers’ affiliate in the American Hockey League before the NHL and its union hammered

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