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Puck Daddy found this 7/21/2008 on www.theglobeandmail.com [flag]
If the National Hockey League had played its cards right, one of its most troubled franchises would soon have a new home in a stable hockey market, with stable ownership and a stable future. Instead, having outsmarted itself in blocking the move of a U.S.-based team to Canada, the league has an unholy mess. Little more than a year ago, Canadian billionaire Jim Balsillie was set to buy the ... [link]

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Should Gary Bettman lose his job over Nashville mess?
Published 7/21/2008 by Greg Wyshynski at Puck Daddy
... OK, at least that's what the Canadian media is saying; like the Globe & Mail's editorial today, in which it caps a review of the Del Biaggio/ ...

If Balsillie were allowed to buy the Predators...
Published 7/21/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Richard Pollock) at IllegalCurve.com
... ago, Canadian billionaire Jim Balsillie was set to buy the foundering Nashville Predators and move them to Hamilton. It was a marriage made in heaven. Mr. Balsillie, the co-CEO of Research In Motion, is a dynamic and deep-pocketed owner of a kind the NHL needs more of. And a team in Hamilton would have thrived; more than 12,000 fans quickly put down deposits for season tickets in expectation of the Predators' arrival. Read the entire editorial here. (Hat tip to Puck Daddy) ...

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Sundin Speaks

Habs Inside/Out found this 7/21/2008 on www.hockeybuzz.com

The following is Sundin's interview in today's Aftonbladet as translated by our Flyers Blogger/Swedish Translator Bill Meltzer. Great Work Bill! http://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/hockey/nhl/article2940655.ab Sundin denies Vancouver move in an ...
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Should Gary Bettman lose his job over Nashville mess?

IllegalCurve.com found this 7/21/2008 on sports.yahoo.com

Perhaps it's the "follow the money" fervor that the "Boots" Del Biaggio story inspires, but there's this Watergate-like notion floating around the media that if this trail of inept vetting goes all the way up to Gary Bettman's ...
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Gainey plays cool salary-cap game

james mirtle found this 7/21/2008 on www.faceoff.com

Which brings us back to Gainey. The Canadiens' GM already has all his players under contract for the 2008-09 season and still has roughly $7 million in cap space in case Mats Sundin decides to come to Montreal as a free agent or a big-name player ...
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Vermette to Nucks, Selanne to Habs AGAIN, Burt picks the Sundin Winner!

Waiting For Stanley- A Vancouver Canucks-NHL news site found this 7/22/2008 on www.hockeybuzz.com

A few quick hits... On Vermette... According to three separate sources (and that is a ton for this time of year), there could be a deal very close that would send Vermette to Vancouver for a "serious defenseman." Selanne... "It all depends on what ...
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KHL: Alexander Radulov's Russian contract will be upheld

Japers' Rink found this 7/22/2008 on sports.yahoo.com

Along with Jeff Z. Klein of the New York Times, blogging forefather Eric McErlain has been one of the most investigative U.S. journalists on the new Russian Continental Hockey League (KHL). His piece on the league for the Sporting News is a very ...
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