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OPINION

01/24/09

RYAN KENNEDY: Stuck on the sidelines (The Hockey News)
MICHAEL FARBER: Montreal: This city is hockey (Si.com)
WES GOLDSTEIN: More glitz than hits, All-Star Game becomes pure spectacle (CBS Sportsline)
CRAIG CUSTANCE: All-Star weekend in Montreal is something special (The Sporting News)
MIKE BROPHY: The devil they know (Sportsnet)
LYLE RICHARDSON: It's All-Star weekend so where's the buzz? (Foxsports)
GEORGE JOHNSON: Constructing the ultimate Canadien (ESPN)
ERIC DUHATSCHEK: A game of glorified shinny (Globe & Mail)
BRUCE ARTHUR: Are these the best players the NHL has to offer? (National Post)
ROY MacGREGOR: East and West, but one dream (Globe & Mail)
BRUCE GARRIOCH: Union eyes 2nd team in Toronto (Ottawa Sun)
TIM COWLISHAW: Lessons from Montreal helped shape Dallas Stars' Modano (Dallas Morning News)Subscriber site
DAVE STUBBS: City opens arms for all-star Souray (Montreal Gazette)
DAMIEN COX: Players never saw this hit coming (Toronto Star)
GREG LOGAN: Breaking down the Isles at the break (New York Newsday)
DAVE KRIEGER: Hockey defends code to the death (Denver Rocky Mountain News)
RED FISHER: Simply the best (Montreal Gazette)
JAMES DUTHIE: Some spice would be nice for all-star weekend (Ottawa Citizen)
TERRY KOSHAN: Lemieux has made his way back to the NHL, but can he stick? ... Canucks trying to right the ship ... Great One a great leader (Toronto Sun)
CHUCK GORMLEY: Holmgren must forget Forsberg (South Jersey Courier-Post)
PAT HICKEY: Players dodging all-star games run afoul of NHL policy (Montreal Gazette)
JIM MATHESON: What's Bruin at the break (Edmonton Journal)
BRUCE GARRIOCH: Leafs linked to Pronger (Ottawa Sun)
DAMIEN COX: Two Wings face sanctions (Toronto Star)
NEIL BEST: Cablevision, MSG prefer Isles stay (New York Newsday)
ANN KILLION: Sharks' McLellan acing the balance test so far (San Jose Mercury News)Subscriber site
STEVE ZIPAY: 5 Rangers musts after break (New York Newsday)

01/23/09

ADAM PROTEAU: Expectation evaluations (The Hockey News)
JIM KELLEY: Fighting: hockey's painful debate (Si.com)
WES GOLDSTEIN: Now in A.A. -- after Avery -- Stars beginning to rehab season (CBS Sportsline)
MARK SPECTOR: On Spec (Sportsnet)
SCOTT BURNSIDE: Olympics? Vegas? Bettman checks in (ESPN)
JIM KELLEY: Take it to Europe (Sportsnet)
DAMIEN COX: The first-half story lines we can't forget (ESPN)
STEPHEN BRUNT: Content NHLPA to choose status quo of contract (Globe & Mail)
BRUCE ARTHUR: NHLPA likely to stick with current CBA (National Post)
GEORGE VESCEY: A Late Bloomer Sticking to His Mission (New York Times)Subscriber site
IAN MacDONALD: He hasn't hung up his skates (Montreal Gazette)
BRUCE GARRIOCH: Crosby show nixed (Ottawa Sun)
KEVIN MIO: Rookie still living in hotel room (Montreal Gazette)
GARY LOEWEN: Crosby, Sabres and Nash (Toronto Sun)
DAVID JOHNSTON: Can't paint greats with same brush (Montreal Gazette)
LARRY BROOKS: No time for Slats to be cheap-skate (New York Post)
MIKE BOONE: Hockey Night in Hibernia (Montreal Gazette)
BRUCE GARRIOCH: Players ready to extend CBA (Ottawa Sun)
DAVE STUBBS: St. Louis fills all-star hole for Sid Has Hid (Montreal Gazette)
WAYNE SCANLAN: Players pass on flawed all-star format (Ottawa Citizen)
DAVE STUBBS: Stars shed light on CH love (Montreal Gazette)
RED FISHER: A game for the ages (Montreal Gazette)
WILLIAM HOUSTON: NHL puts its white elephant on full display (Globe & Mail)

01/22/09

RYAN DIXON: High picks not enough to reach higher ground (The Hockey News)
MIKE BROPHY: A Shark tale (Sportsnet)
WES GOLDSTEIN: Trade suitors would be pleased to meet Bouwmeester (CBS Sportsline)
JIM KELLEY: A dream for our game (Sportsnet)
ROY MacGREGOR: For love of the game (Globe & Mail)
STEVE SIMMONS: Fights control 'rat factor' (Toronto Sun)
JIM MATHESON: What's to be done with the new guy? (Edmonton Journal)
GEORGE JOHNSON: A winter of wonder for Mason (Calgary Herald)
BRUCE GARRIOCH: It's decision time on Gerber (Ottawa Sun)
DAMIEN COX: Schenn a ray of hope amid all the gloom (Toronto Star)
PAT HICKEY: O'Byrne may make return to blue line (Montreal Gazette)
CAM COLE: Face it: The Canucks don't need this break (Vancouver Sun)
JIM MATHESON: Blue-liners carry Oilers (Edmonton Journal)
MARK KISZLA: Goal is to make a move (Denver Post)
TOM POWERS: Brunette still hard at work despite banged-up leg (St. Paul Pioneer Press)Subscriber site
ERIC FRANCIS: Rook, line and sinker (Calgary Sun)
WAYNE SCANLAN: Buy? Sell? GM still not sure (Ottawa Citizen)
GARY LOEWEN: Goalies, gimmicks, goons and go home, J.P. (Toronto Sun)
ROSIE DiMANNO: Don't pity me, ex-Leaf coach Burns says (Toronto Star)

01/21/09

JOHN BUCCIGROSS: Another backyard rink in the books (ESPN)
ALLAN MAKI: Red Wings' GM open to debate on fighting (Globe & Mail)
ERIC DUHATSCHEK: 50 wins in Kiprusoff's reach? (Globe & Mail)
DAN BARNES: Throwing Cole on the fire (Edmonton Journal)
BRUCE DOWBIGGIN: Trophy defenceman often goes unnoticed (Calgary Herald)
GARY LOEWEN: More Blake than belligerence for Leafs (Toronto Sun)
TOM POWERS: Minnesota Wild's Andrew Brunette still hard at work despite banged-up leg (St. Paul Pioneer Press)Subscriber site
JOHN JEANSONNE: Isles moving? Not likely (New York Newsday)
MIKE BOONE: Nothing rinky-dink about Canadiens' first outdoor community ice project (Montreal Gazette)
WAYNE SCANLAN: Ovie remains his own man (Ottawa Citizen)
ADRIAN DATER: Lemieux's comeback beats odds (Denver Post)
JIM MATHESON: Ask Matty (Edmonton Journal)
MARK PURDY: Bullish on the Lemieux experiment (San Jose Mercury News)Subscriber site
GEORGE JOHNSON: President sounds like great coach (Calgary Herald)
LARRY BROOKS: Prucha back on Rangers bench (New York Post)
DON BRENNAN: Win 200 has Hartsburg smiling (Ottawa Sun)
MARK HERRMANN: Isles should make sure they're covered in goal (New York Newsday)
RED FISHER: Tough and relentless (Montreal Gazette)
CHRIS STEVENSON: Fighting words (Ottawa Sun)
WILLIAM HOUSTON: NHL television audiences on upswing (Globe & Mail)

01/20/09

TERRY FREI: Let's inaugurate new view on race (The Hockey News)
DARREN ELIOT: Taking stock before the March trade deadline arrives (Si.com)
MIKE BROPHY: On second thought... (Sportsnet)
LYLE RICHARDSON: Don't expect players to go back to the table (Foxsports)
SCOTT BURNSIDE: Sabres' rise, and the playoff picture (ESPN)
ERIC DUHATSCHEK: Separated at birth? (Globe & Mail)
BRUCE GARRIOCH: Murray: Buyer or seller? (Ottawa Sun)
DAVE STUBBS: Carbo faces crunch as injured Habs return (Montreal Gazette)
DAMIEN COX: Last-to-first Bruins a fine example of rebuilding (Toronto Star)
BOB DUFF: Julien takes it in stride (Windsor Star)
GEORGE JOHNSON: Don't fear Flames' flicker (Calgary Herald)
MICHAEL ARACE: Injured Modin goes to great pains to play (Columbus Dispatch)
IAIN MacINTYRE: 30 days to a better them? (Vancouver Sun)
WAYNE SCANLAN: Good old boys finding it tough (Ottawa Citizen)
ROBERT TYCHKOWSKI: Fire lit by meeting (Edmonton Sun)
DAVE DYE: Are playoffs in Columbus' future? (Detroit News)
TERRY FREI: Let's inaugurate new view on race (Denver Post)
BRUCE GARRIOCH: Spezza backs down at practice (Ottawa Sun)
STEPHEN HARRIS: Bad start to this story (Boston Herald)
PAT HICKEY: Kovalchuk subject of rumour mill (Montreal Gazette)
GARY LOEWEN: Maple Lost Sports and Entertainment Ltd. (Toronto Sun)
STEVE BUFFERY: Bell tolls for Mark (Toronto Sun)

01/19/09

JAY FEASTER: Top 25 most significant players of the NHL's first half (The Sporting News)
JEFF BLAIR: Teams should pay the full penalty for fights (Globe & Mail)
IAIN MacINTYRE: Defencemen due for a makeover (Vancouver Sun)
MIKE ZEISBERGER: The players vote this week on whether to terminate or extend the CBA. Two Penguins stars are predicting the latter (Toronto Sun)
TERRY JONES: Getting the heart of the glory gang back together is what made Anderson's banner-raising so magnificently memorable (Edmonton Sun)
ERIC FRANCIS: Back up where they belong? Flames lifting themselves into elite company with current run after years of mediocrity (Calgary Sun)
DAVE STUBBS: Sawchuk's record-setting shutout came at Forum (Montreal Gazette)
MICHAEL ARACE: Injured Modin goes to great pains to play (Columbus Dispatch)
SCOTT McKEEN: Anderson charged the enemy and Oilers fans rejoiced (Edmonton Journal)
CAM COLE: Waiting to be 'wowed' (Vancouver Sun)
CHRIS STEVENSON: It's Schubie, hands down (Ottawa Sun)
BRUCE DOWBIGGIN: Losing the fight against common sense (Calgary Herald)
DAN BARNES: 'This is where my heart is' (Edmonton Journal)
ED MORAN: With Briere returning, Sbisa falls under Flyers' salary-cap gun (Philadelphia Daily News)
RED FISHER: Béliveau not only the best centre, but the best Habs player (Montreal Gazette)
TONY GALLAGHER: Sedin twins try best to end team's suffering (Vancouver Province)
GARY LOEWEN: Wilson, Leafs, not hot (Toronto Sun)
WILLIAM HOUSTON: McGuire, Milbury drop gloves over fighting (Globe & Mail)

01/18/09

CRAIG CUSTANCE: Expect tweaks to U.S. junior team, not major changes (The Sportine News)
DON BRENNAN: When push comes to shove, Winchester delivers (Ottawa Sun)
ROB LONGLEY: Leafs losing; get used to it (Toronto Sun)
DAN BARNES: Oilers slay 3-headed monster (Edmonton Journal)
GEORGE RICHARDS: Around the ice (Miami Herald)Subscriber site
DAVE MOLINARI: That time already? (Pittsburgh Post Gazette)
RED FISHER: The complete package (Montreal Gazette)
MARK PURDY: Sharks-Red Wings provide playoff-like thrills (San Jose Mercury News)Subscriber site
MICHAEL RUSSO: The best of the first half (Minnesota Star-Tribune)Subscriber site
JENNIFER FLOYD ENGEL: Dallas Stars can be great if they refuse to be less (Fort Worth Star Telegram)Subscriber site
DAMIEN CRISTODERO: Tampa Bay Lightning must increase its defensive depth (St. Petersburg Times)
THEOREN FLEURY: Flames' improvement is a pleasant surprise (Calgary Herald)
CHUCK GORMLEY: Shanahan almost a Flyer (South Jersey Courier-Post)
LARRY BROOKS: Rangers-Isles in 2010 classic's the right thing to do (New York Post)
STEVE GORTEN: Trade rumors getting to Lecavalier (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
MARK HERRMANN: Islanders are Long Island's last shot at Big Show (New York Newsday)
JIM MATHESON: Hockey World (Edmonton Journal)
KEVIN PAUL DUPONT: No need for TBA on CBA (Boston Globe)Subscriber site
BUCKY GLEASON: Quick adjusts on the fly to big-league competition (Raleigh News & Observer)

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WAYNE SCANLAN: Senators struggle to keep up (Ottawa Citizen)
BRUCE GARRIOCH: Ownership warring over Vinny's future in Tampa (Ottawa Sun)

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