sports.espn.go.com - 10/26/2008
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We're in tough economic times, but NHL players will get a nice surprise sometime over the next month: A big fat check from their teams. The final tally is in from last season's escrow calculations, and the net result is that each player will earn 100.66 percent of their 2007-08 contract. The ...
sports.espn.go.com - 10/23/2008
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The NHL's 30 general managers met in Chicago
on Thursday and left with some homework. They've got
to chew on three rule change recommendations before reconvening at their next meeting in March and possibly voting on them.•The first is the Larry Pleau ...
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sports.espn.go.com - 11/2/2008
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How about that Friday night shootout between Vancouver
and Anaheim? Whoa. And I'm the guy who recently
said the shootout is stale. Maybe I'm wrong! Here are a couple of notes for you puckheads as I chat up some of my sources this weekend. There were ...
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sports.espn.go.com - 10/28/2008
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Steve Yzerman will likely make the jump to
NHL GM one day. But that day won't come
any day soon. The moment Yzerman accepted the job of executive director of Team Canada for the 2010 Olympics, the Detroit Red Wings vice president essentially ended any ...
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How the (NHL's) economy works
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ESPN's Pierre LeBrun provides a voice in the wilderness regarding the truth about the NHL's economic situation: October 25, ESPN : Keep in mind that despite the financial crisis, the NHL has about 70 percent of its yearlong revenues already in the bank -- season tickets, sponsorship deals, TV deals, etc. So the big barometer on league revenues going forward this season is how low the Canadian dollar sinks (Canadian NHL clubs accounted for 35 percent of team revenues last season -- they pay their players in U.S. dollars) and how individual game-day ticket sales fare the rest of ...
Puck Headlines: Wings, Blackhawks reveal Classic wear
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Here are your Weekend Puck Headlines: A glorious collection of news and views collected from the greatest blogosphere in sports and the few, the proud, the mainstream hockey media. • Here are the Winter Classic sweaters for the Wrigley Field game, and here is the unveiling video. The Chicago Blackhawks will wear "a primarily black jersey with red and beige horizontal body stripes that was worn by the club in 1936-37," and that's some snappy Photoshopping right there. The Detroit Red Wings will wear "a white-based jersey with a single red body stripe ...
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