The fractured NHL Players' Association listened to baseball union head Donald Fehr as it tries to rebuild. The message was clear: keep everything out in the open. Fehr, the executive director of the MLB Players' Association since December 1985, told 20 hockey player reps how things work at his union and what was good in their collective bargaining agreement. "There's no secret to what we do," Fehr said afterward. "Basically all of our meetings, except meetings relating to something confidential about an individual player, are open to any player and we always have them present and participating in negotiating meetings.