Morning Bag Skate 10/16

Lockout stats: 26 games lost, $37,543,830.50 lost in salary

Eddie O has his night (Blackhawks)

Local businesses brace for a winter without the Blackhawks (Crain's)

Great read on the NHL getting PR tips from the GOP (Deadspin)

Is a luxury tax in the NHL's future? (Pro Hockey Talk)

A proposal that makes so much sense it can never work! (Back Hand Shelf)

Meet the lockout lawyers destroying sports (The Nation)

NHL can't afford another lost season (ESPN)

Agent Pat Brisson to lead another tour of NHL players? (Pensburgh)

There is hockey being played, here is your update (USA Today)