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• College Hockey Fights Back
• By Bruce Ciskie 12/07/2009 2:00 PM ET
• USA Hockey recently invited 29 players to their tryout camp for the IIHF World Junior Championships, which begin Dec. 26 in Saskatchewan. Of the 29, ten of them will never play one second of college ... More »
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• NHLPA Circus Another Step Backwards For Fankind
• By Christopher Botta 9/01/2009 12:30 PM ET
• If the sport of professional ice hockey "has the best people," as People In Hockey like to tell each other all the time, then how come it's often a living hell to be a hockey fan? Monday's kick in the ... More »
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• NHLPA Relieves Paul Kelly of His Duties
• By Adam Gretz 8/31/2009 10:50 AM ET
• The NHLPA announced early Monday morning that it had voted "overwhelmingly" to relieve executive director Paul Kelly of his duties after nearly two years on the job at the groups annual meeting in ... More »
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• UFC 99 Weigh-In Results: Cro Cop Cheered, Silva Chiseled, Lots of Shoving
• By Michael David Smith 6/12/2009 9:48 AM ET
• All 24 fighters stepped on the scales Friday in Cologne, Germany, for an eventful UFC 99 weigh-in. The loudest cheers were for Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic, who will have the crowd on his side fighting ... More »
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• Paul Kelly Admits Escrow Payments to Rise
• By Tom Luongo 1/18/2009 6:15 PM ET
• Last night between games on HNIC, NHLPA executive director Paul Kelly was interviewed by Ron MacLean (link to HD video of the entire interview). The first thing they discussed was the rumor that ... More »
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• Will the US Dollar Sink the Salary Cap?
• By Tom Luongo 8/13/2008 7:30 AM ET
• For those who follow the goings on in the financial markets closely, the recent rally in the US Dollar in terms of the trade-weighted index was quite an event, considering the extreme weakness of ... More »
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• NHLPA Throws Down Gauntlet with IIHF
• By Eric McErlain 7/21/2008 6:00 AM ET
• While most of us in North America were trying to find a way to get away from the heat, Paul Kelly, head of the National Hockey League Players Association wasn't being chary about raising the heat when ... More »
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• Is the NHLPA Digging In for a Fight?
• By Jes Golbez 6/19/2008 3:09 PM ET
• When the NHLPA announced that it hired Glenn Healy away from the television studios to become their "Director of Player Affairs", I was rather happy that our airwaves were now free of his crappy color ... More »
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• What Gene Upshaw Loves, Hates About the NHL Players Association
• By Greg Wyshynski 2/01/2008 9:21 AM ET
• NFL Players Association executive director Gene Upshaw wanted to make a statement about the steely resolve his members would have in a potential labor showdown with the League. And he decided to use ...
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• An 84-Game Schedule: Coming to an NHL Near You?
• By Jes Golbez 1/25/2008 11:34 AM ET
• Does anyone feel that the NHL season is too short? Do you not get enough hockey after 82 regular season games and four rounds of playoffs to satiate your addiction? The answer is YES, if you are NHLPA ...
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• New NHLPA Boss a Breath of Fresh Air
• By Jes Golbez 1/06/2008 1:16 PM ET
• I was never all that enamored with previous NHL bosses Bob Goodenow and Ted Saskin. Oh, Goodenow was exceptional about making his players rich, and Saskin did help end the lockout, but these men did ...
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• NHLPA Boss: 'We need ESPN'
• By Jes Golbez 12/10/2007 3:10 PM ET
• Let's face it, ESPN has a near-monopoly on the American sports-watching public. While Fox Sports Net and other channels do a good job on a regional level, the kind of national, mainstream exposure ...
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• The Ice Sheet: The Death of the Instigator?
• By Tom Luongo 11/30/2007 7:00 AM ET
• Every day from Monday to Saturday, The Ice Sheet will take a look at the biggest stories in the league that happened on the ice and elsewhere the night before. Fresh on the heels of the latest ... More »
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• The Ice Sheet: NHLPA Gets a New Boss
• By Jes Golbez 10/25/2007 9:09 AM ET
• After months of in-fighting, the NHL Players Associating finally got around to hiring a replacement for the oft-colluding Ted Saskin. Ironically, the man they hired, Paul Kelly, is the man who once ... More »
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• Lockout Wounds Begin Gushing Again
• By Greg Wyshynski 10/16/2007 12:54 AM ET
• Whenever I hear Gary Bettman talk about how the NHL has recovered from its suicidal work stoppage two years ago, it reminds me of a delusional daddy trying to ignore that a particularly vicious and ... More »
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