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OPINION

06/27/09

BOB McKENZIE: Big night for Tavares, Ducks and Leblanc (TSN)
WES GOLDSTEIN: Flavorless draft proceeds pretty much according to plan (CBS Sportsline)
PIERRE LeBRUN: Ducks GM: I would have traded Pronger even without Niedermayer's return (ESPN)
JEFF BLAIR: Burke looking a year down the road (Globe & Mail)
ALLAN MAKI: Coyotes ugly: Gretzky takes a beating (Globe & Mail)
MIKE ZEISBERGER: All talk and no action (Toronto Sun)
BRUCE GARRIOCH: Offers for Heatley fall short (Ottawa Sun)
ARTHUR STAPLE: Fans, keep the Tavares expectations realistic (New York Newsday)
PAT HICKEY: Gainey preaches patience to fans (Montreal Gazette)
BRUCE GARRIOCH: Lecavalier getting closer to being Hab? (Ottawa Sun)
MICHAEL ARACE: It's easy to overestimate the impact of NHL draft (Columbus Dispatch)
HELENE ELLIOTT: Ducks, Kings do the right things on draft day (Los Angeles Times)Subscriber site
RED FISHER: GM Gainey lifts spirits of Ch fans (Montreal Gazette)
GREG DOUGLAS: Gaborik could use some real estate advice from Ohlund (Vancouver Sun)
WAYNE SCANLAN: Draft pick latest Sens rebuilding effort (Ottawa Citizen)
TERRY JONES: Style points for Oil GM (Edmonton Sun)
DAVE KRIEGER: Pick has skill, personality (Denver Post)
STEVE MacFARLANE: Plenty of cash to make a splash (Calgary Sun)
TOM POWERS: Home groan: Wild get local but no better (St. Paul Pioneer Press)Subscriber site
DAMIEN COX: Burke couldn't get his pick, but still got an impact ... (Toronto Star)
DON BRENNAN: Flyers pay price for Pronger (Ottawa Sun)
DAVE STUBBS: Fictitious Japanese player added punch to '74 draft (Montreal Gazette)
LUKE DeCOCK: Inactive Canes need to do something (Raleigh News & Observer)Subscriber site
MARK SUTCLIFFE: Bargain basement deal for Heatley would be a management failure (Ottawa Citizen)
DAVE STUBBS: Islanders tap Tavares as saviour (Montreal Gazette)
GARY LOEWEN: Offside Saturday - Even a Leafs fan can dream (Toronto Sun)

06/26/09

ADAM PROTEAU: NHL teams and their movie brethren (The Hockey News)
BOB McKENZIE: I'll make educated guess that Isles pick Hedman (TSN)
MICHAEL FARBER: Lemaire gets long deserved nod from Team Canada (Si.com)
DARREN DREGOR: Trade talk heating up ahead of draft (TSN)
JIM KELLEY: Isles' pick can set draft day trades in motion, more notes (Si.com)
WES GOLDSTEIN: Isles hoping top pick sparks Penguins-like march to respectability (CBS Sportsline)
CRAIG CUSTANCE: Mock Draft: Tavares gets first call (The Sporting News)
JIM KELLEY: Dealing with the Devil (Sportsnet)
SCOTT BURNSIDE: Team Canada can't escape politics (ESPN)
LYLE RICHARDSON: What's in store for draft day? (Foxsports)
PIERRE LeBRUN: Latest rumblings: Habs busy, Leafs talking trade, Ducks and Wings figuring out cap picture (ESPN)
ERIC DUHATSCHEK: Trade winds blow through Montreal (Globe & Mail)
ERIC DUHATSCHEK: No. 1 no easy choice this year (Globe & Mail)
DAVE STUBBS: Top prospects begin to realize NHL dreams (Montreal Gazette)
MIKE ZEISBERGER: Now, Burke is listening (Toronto Sun)
BRUCE GARRIOCH: Source: Bettman tells Bolts to hang on to Lecavalier (Ottawa Sun)
KEVIN PAUL DUPONT: What’s Kessel worth? (Boston Globe)Subscriber site
IAIN MacINTYRE: Agent denies rumours of Luongo's new Canucks deal (Vancouver Sun)
DAMIEN COX: Isles could shock with Duchene (Toronto Star)
HELENE ELLIOTT: Kings have early move in NHL draft (Los Angeles Times)Subscriber site
ROBERT TYCHKOWSKI: Oilers full of optimism (Edmonton Sun)
ED WILLES: Sedins fading from Vancouver's priority list (Vancouver Province)
PAT HICKEY: Isles fans apply heat for Tavares (Montreal Gazette)
TERRY FOSTER: Cup loss devastates this Wings fan (Detroit News)
MIKE HARRINGTON: Help hardly on the way for Sabres (Buffalo News)
STEVE SIMMONS: Nothing lucky about No. 7 (Toronto Sun)
JERRY CROWE: How L.A. has been decking halls of fame (Los Angeles Times)Subscriber site
RED FISHER: Babcock obvious Olympic choice (Montreal Gazette)
TONY GALLAGHER: Gaborik or not, get ready for ride (Vancouver Province)
DON BRENNAN: Duchene would be great catch (Ottawa Sun)
ARTHUR STAPLE: Snow deserves credit for secrecy, but he'd better pick Tavares (New York Newsday)
GARY LOEWEN: Offside Friday — Bolts bosses talk ... but Burke talks tough (Toronto Sun)

06/25/09

RYAN DIXON: Bearing the Brent of responsibility (The Hockey News)
DARREN ELIOT: Islanders' draft day stakes can't get much higher (Si.com)
WES GOLDSTEIN: B. Sutter's road to Calgary leaves New Jersey GM in no-win situation (CBS Sportsline)
CRAIG CUSTANCE: At No. 2, Lightning can grab impact player (The Sporting News)
PIERRE LeBRUN: Chatter, chatter, chatter ... GMs in town for draft, trade buzz is up (ESPN)
MIKE BROPHY: Avoid the Easy button (Sportsnet)
SCOTT BURNSIDE: Trades, rumors and who'll be No. 1 (ESPN)
ERIC DUHATSCHEK: Lecavalier trade rumour refuses to die (Globe & Mail)
MIKE ZEISBERGER: No means no for Burke (Toronto Sun)
ALLEN PANZERI: Wild ideas about Heatley (Ottawa Citizen)
JIM MATHESON: Matty's 2009 mock draft picks (Edmonton Journal)
IAIN MacINTYRE: Canucks counting on character at NHL draft (Vancouver Sun)
PAT HICKEY: Canadiens leave Koivu hanging (Montreal Gazette)
BILL McGRAW: Devellano deserves to be in Hockey Hall of Fame (Detroit Free Press)
JIM MATHESON: Islanders mum on pick (Edmonton Journal)
DAMIEN COX: Lightning make Isles look good (Toronto Star)
MARTIN FENNELLY: Nothing seems OK about Lightning's future (Tampa Tribune)
WAYNE SCANLAN: Garage sale is on, bargain hunters (Ottawa Citizen)
ROBERT TYCHKOWSKI: The beauties and the busts (Edmonton Sun)
TED KULFAN: Islanders look to be sold on drafting John Tavares (Detroit News)
JOHN MacKINNON: Flames franchise now all in the Sutter family (Edmonton Journal)
GARY LOEWEN: Make your move, Burke (Toronto Sun)
GARY LOEWEN: Offside Thursday - Leafs' Burke ought to sharpen his teeth (Toronto Sun)

06/24/09

ALLAN MUIR: My 2009 NHL mock draft (Si.com)
CRAIG CUSTANCE: Hall call for Leetch, Hull a banner day for U.S. hockey (The Sporting News)
SCOTT BURNSIDE: Anyone else suspicious of this reunion? (ESPN)
JIM KELLEY: First class group (Sportsnet)
PIERRE LeBRUN: We know this year's Hall class, but who's in line for 2010? It'll be a tough call (ESPN)
MARK SPECTOR: Made in Alberta solution (Sportsnet)
SCOTT BURNSIDE: Free agency: Top forwards (ESPN)
ERIC DUHATSCHEK: Yzerman leads the way for Wings trio (Globe & Mail)
ALLAN MAKI: Team Sutter completes Calgary takeover (Globe & Mail)
STEVE MILTON: Reinsdorf rescue smells a tad fishy (Hamilton Spectator)
GARY LOEWEN: Drug testers pick wrong time to visit (Toronto Sun)
EARL McRAE: Heatley owes Senators a meeting (Ottawa Sun)
ERIC FRANCIS: Hell Brent on success (Calgary Sun)
BOB WOJNOWSKI: Steve Yzerman cherishes trip to Hall (Detroit News)
DAN BARNES: Beauty and the bruisers (Edmonton Journal)
BOB DUFF: Wings' legacy on parade (Windsor Star)
IAIN MacINTYRE: Vancouver's Kane able, destined to succeed (Vancouver Sun)
WAYNE SCANLAN: Wings set standard for rest to emulate (Ottawa Citizen)
HELENE ELLIOTT: Hall of Fame vote a real corker for Luc Robitaille and Kings (Los Angeles Times)Subscriber site
GIL LEBRETON: Brett Hull brought a lot more than a slap shot to Stars (Fort Worth Star- Telegram)Subscriber site
ROBERT TYCHKOWSKI: Oilers aiming to move up (Edmonton Sun)
GEORGE JOHNSON: Coach Brent Sutter can play it tough (Calgary Herald)
BRUCE GARRIOCH: Neil could be done with Senators (Ottawa Sun)
JEFF GORDON: Hull will always be remembered here (St. Louis Post Dispatch)
MICHAEL ROSENBERG: Perfect cap to a nearly perfect career (Detroit Free Press)
GARY LOEWEN: Offside Wednesday - Hockey player Busch-whacked (Toronto Sun)

06/23/09

KEN CAMPBELL: Monday musings (The Hockey News)
DARREN ELIOT: NHL's elite face tough choices (Si.com)
WES GOLDSTEIN: Economy might be brawniest player in strong free-agent class (CBS Sportsline)
LYLE RICHARDSON: Sizing up where Heatley could land (Foxsports)
PIERRE LeBRUN: Yzerman shoo-in for what should be a monster 2009 Hall class (ESPN)
STEPHEN BRUNT: Habs in good hands during Gillett’s brief ownership (Globe & Mail)
ALLAN MAKI: All in the Family at Calgary's Saddledome (Globe & Mail)
STEVE SIMMONS: Bouwmeester buyer beware (Toronto Sun)
WAYNE SCANLAN: Situation critical for Sens' Murray (Ottawa Citizen)
GEORGE JOHNSON: Coach Brent Sutter can play it tough (Calgary Herald)
LARRY BROOKS: Hall of fame will call Brian Leetch (New York Post)
RED FISHER: GMs will blow their usual smoke (Montreal Gazette)
HELENE ELLIOTT: Luc Robitaille hoping for Hockey Hall of Fame phone call Tuesday (Los Angeles Times)Subscriber site
ADRIAN DATER: Avs need a dandy last day of draft (Denver Post)
DREW SHARP: Chelios: From despised to adored (Detroit Free Press)
JOHN ROMANO: Bickering Tampa Bay Lightning owners Oren Koules and Len Barrie on track for a messy divorce (St. Petersburg Times)
DAMIEN COX: Tough, skilled Zack Kassian catches Brian Burke's eye (Toronto Star)
GARY LOEWEN: Putting the mmm? in firm (Toronto Sun)

06/22/09

CRAIG CUSTANCE: Q&A with Panthers assistant GM Randy Sexton (The Sporting News)
JEFF BLAIR: A debt of gratitude for George Gillett (Globe & Mail)
ALLAN MAKI: All in the Family at Calgary's Saddledome (Globe & Mail)
GARTH WOOLSEY: Ice has melted but hockey still front and centre (Toronto Star)
JACK TODD: Welcome back, Molsons (Montreal Gazette)
DAVE STUBBS: Ex-Habs owner Gillett not the monster we feared (Montreal Gazette)
NEIL RUBIN: The Red Wings T-shirt that wasn't (Detroit News)

06/21/09

PIERRE LeBRUN: Players don't complete 5 percent cap inflator vote (ESPN)
SCOTT BURNSIDE: Union agrees policy needs expanding (ESPN)
PIERRE LeBRUN: Bettman's talks with players 'respectful' (ESPN)
BUCKY GLEASON: Fix hockey department, bring on Bouwmeester and the kids (Buffalo News)
DAVE STUBBS: Molsons, Habs have long history (Montreal Gazette)
STEVE SIMMONS: The lives of Brian and Bryan no laughing matter ... What does $10 million buy? Brain cramps ... Two outdoor games one too many (Toronto Sun)
PAT HICKEY: Big Winners, big losers (Montreal Gazette)
JOE STARKEY: Penguins had hidden helpers (Pittsburgh Tribune Review)
GEORGE JOHNSON: Brent Sutter rumours heat up (Calgary Herald)
MICHAEL RUSSO: New Wild GM ready to deal (Minnesota Star-Tribune)Subscriber site
LARRY BROOKS: Blueshirts have a shot at Senators sniper (New York Post)
RON COOK: Reliving an unforgettable and incredible Cup trek (Pittsburgh Post Gazette)
JIM MATHESON: Oilers unlikely to make move on Bouwmeester (Edmonton Journal)
KEVIN PAUL DUPONT: Hot on Heatley's trail (Boston Globe)Subscriber site
HELENE ST. JAMES: Does your favorite Wing make the grade? (Detroit Free Press)
GENE COLLIER: Nothing ordinary about Penguins' march to the Cup; instead, extraordinary ruled at every turn (Pittsburgh Post Gazette)
JOHN VOGL: Coach for day: Tough guys on first line will set tone for Sabres (Buffalo News)
RED FISHER: I'll miss you, George (Montreal Gazette)
MIKE HARRINGTON: Part of top exec's job is getting out of the way (Buffalo News)

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