[Many players are convinced that owners are attempting to divide the NHLPA. The owners' latest proposal called for players making less than $800,000 to maintain their current salaries while players making more than $5 million cut their salaries by 35 percent. If owners want to splinter the union, they're not going to be successful, Brendan Shanahan said.] The hockey mentality is that when we're challenged, we grow tighter together, ... One player or two might speak out and it might reflect (poorly) on the union, but 99 percent of the union will band together. Brendan Shanahan