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Boots turns to Balsillie
It wasn't all that long ago that Boots Del Biaggio and Jim Balsillie were seen as in competition for the same entity, two well-moneyed (or so we heard) investors looking to purchase the Nashville Pred...
The NHL constitution
Interesting times in the blogosphere.Late Wednesday night, I received an email from Dan Tolensky from HockeyBuzz.com, a blogger I chat with once in a while about the hockey topic du jour. Tolensky sai...
All eyes on the dollar
The Canadian dollar has been going cuckoo lately, along with a lot of other things, and at one point on Friday afternoon was below 83 cents — its lowest point since the spring of 2005 when the NHL w...
The loonie boost The dollar's effect on the salary cap
The discussion of the Canadian dollar's rise and its relation to the NHL has been done to death, both in the blogosphere and the media, but with the summer lull settling in, a question came to mind th...
Escrow going to 22.5 per cent, NHLPA says
There have been a variety of reported figures out there for where the escrow figure will sit for the third quarter of the season, but NHLPA executive director Paul Kelly was on The Fan 590 radio stati...
Bettman's all-star address: All's well
Here's a quick look at the highlights from Gary Bettman's media availability today in Montreal. Unsurprisingly, he doesn't deliver any bad news: Economically, and I'll talk more about this late...
NHLPA stays the course with CBA
About an hour and a half from now, NHLPA executive director Paul Kelly will meet with assembled media in Montreal to tell the hockey world what it's known for months now: They're sticking within the c...
Farce of the Predators
Nashville's in the news again, and along with that comes more grumbling from those on the top end of the NHL's revenue rankings. From Thursday's Tennessean: As they battle to make hockey a long-t...
An injury of convenience
It appears the Flyers will delay Danny Briere's return from a groin injury - and it may have just as much to do with the salary-cap situation as it does the center's health. "It's a little bit of...
The escrow question
And with several clubs in financial peril, the PA and its members are eager to have a voice in how the league reshapes itself. “Why are we keeping Phoenix afloat at the players' expense?&rdqu...
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