Martin St. Louis had some strong words on the lockout. (Getty Images)

Tampa Bay Lightning forward Martin St. Louis is one of the many players going through the second NHL lockout of his career.

The 2004-05 labor dispute already cost him a full season during what should have been the prime of his career (it was the year after he won the NHL's scoring title, MVP award and Stanley Cup) and now he's already lost two months of what could be one of his final seasons.

For the most part, work stoppages are the only thing that have kept him off the ice over the past seven years as he's been as durable as they come in the NHL, and he seems to be a little tired of it.

"I’m shaking my head every time I wake up," St. Louis told Damian Cristodero of the Tampa Bay Times on Friday after the league canceled November's schedule. "We’re telling everybody we’re going to go to 50 percent, let’s share responsibility to get there. They don’t want that. Again, they want to hit us. It’s us, 24 percent last time and now 12 percent, and doing that when the game has grown the most, it’s tough to take.

"Nobody is crying poor here, and I think it’s hard for the fans to understand that. But it’s about when there’s a problem we have to fix it all the time and they don’t want to take responsibility, too."

St. Louis, who turned 37 in June, also said that he's getting closer to making a decision on whether he will play in Europe now that the lockout is all but guaranteed to go on for at least another month. Back in 2004 he played in Switzerland.

As I mentioned in Saturday's daily hockey fix there are no winners in this work stoppage and everybody has plenty to lose (and shares plenty of the blame). In many cases it's money (whether it be revenue for teams or salary for players, especially for the fourth line-type guys or bubble players), but for guys like St. Louis it could be their last really productive years in the NHL. And in the case of a player like St. Louis, a second year overall.

In 931 career games, St. Louis has scored 323 goals and recorded 852 points. Without work stoppages taking away so many games he would have probably been a slam dunk for round number milestones like 400 goals and 1,000 points.

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