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OPINION

10/24/09

RYAN KENNEDY: Going back to Buffalo (The Hockey News)
ALLAN MUIR: Sizing up the Olympic bids (Si.com)
WES GOLDSTEIN: NHL warning teams about H1N1 virus, possible consequences (CBS Sportsline)
CRAIG CUSTANCE: Agents of change: Five NHL summer signing paying off early (The Sporting News)
E.J. HRADEK: Chatting with Brodeur (ESPN)
MIKE BROPHY: Young guns (Sportsnet)
PIERRE LeBRUN: Scoring? Cooking? Both coming easy these days for NHL sophomore Steven Stamkos (ESPN)
SEAN GORDON: Life rough in Habs crease (Globe & Mail)
LANCE HORNBY: Are Flyers party-happy? (Toronto Sun)
BRUCE GARRIOCH: Senator looking for net worth (Ottawa Sun)
CAM COLE: Haunted by ghosts of failures past (Vancouver Sun)
MIKE BOONE: Mishandling a valuable asset? (Montreal Gazette)
BERNIE MIKLASZ: Blues show enough pep to beat Wild (St. Louis Post Dispatch)
ROBERT TYCHKOWSKI: Delivering some 'wow' (Edmonton Sun)
MIKE ZEISBERGER: Burke unable to hold his tongue on the fuss over TV piece (Toronto Sun)
GREG DOUGLAS: Leaf out the jokes: Many Toronto front office employees were once Canucks (Vancouver Sun)
WAYNE SCANLAN: Their best Olympic efforts (Ottawa Citizen)
JACK TODD: Gainey's tenure with Habs has been ruled by panic (Montreal Gazette)
DAMIEN COX: Leafs need to exercise caution in Kessel's return (Toronto Star)
GARY LOEWEN: Offside Saturday — Leafs' Saturday sked looks loaded (Toronto Sun)

10/23/09

ADAM PROTEAU: Wild and wacky motivational techniques (The Hockey News)
RYAN DIXON: Clear-thinking must rule concussion debate (The Hockey News)
JIM KELLEY: NHL must stem the rising tide of crease-crashers; NHLPA intrigue (Si.com)
WES GOLDSTEIN: Turning back the clock has Sabres off to good start (CBS Sportsline)
CRAIG CUSTANCE: Old dog Chelios has new trick: AHL tryout (The Sporting News)
NICK KYPREOS: Stop changing the game! (Sportsnet)
E.J. HRADEK: Lock 'em up: Thursday Night Hockey picks (ESPN)
JIM KELLEY: The Blueprint (Sportsnet)
PIERRE LeBRUN: Beware, Eastern Conference ... Devils starting to find their way (ESPN)
KEVIN ALLEN: Waiting in the wings: Yzerman among promising GM candidates (USA Today)
DEREK VAN DIEST: Garon's wild ride (Edmonton Sun)
PAT HICKEY: Moulson surprises naysayers (Montreal Gazette)
MIKE ZEISBERGER: Leafs good for a laugh (Toronto Sun)
ROBERT TYCHKOWSKI: Top line was just that (Edmonton Sun)
DAN BICKLEY: Ex-goalie Burke assisting in hockey revival (Arizona Republic)
PAT HICKEY: 'Trying to create room': Metropolit (Montreal Gazette)
TONY GALLAGHER: The Leafs and HNIC really do suck (Vancouver Province)
DAMIEN COX: When Crosby speaks, NHLPA listens (Toronto Star)
JOHN MacKINNON: Pardon my French connection (Edmonton Journal)
ERIC FRANCIS: On-paper promise translates to ice (Calgary Sun)
RED FISHER: Gionta sets tone for Canadiens (Montreal Gazette)
GARY LOEWEN: Offside Friday — State of the Leafs Nation (Toronto Sun)

10/22/09

RYAN DIXON: D-men make all the difference (The Hockey News)
DARREN DREGOR: NHL interested in studying effects of head trauma (TSN)
RYAN KENNEDY: Awarding Koivu captaincy gives Wild some direction (The Hockey News)
DARREN DREGOR: NHL may have new target for video review (TSN)
PIERRE LeBRUN: KHL still standing; should NHL worry? (ESPN)
CRAIG CUSTANCE: Win in Chicago puts Canucks on road to better things (The Sporting News)
E.J. HRADEK: Calder/Draft Watch: Del Zotto/Hall impress (ESPN)
MIKE BROPHY: Battling the bug (Sportsnet)
PIERRE LeBRUN: Sergei Gonchar and Marc Savard injuries: How they affect Pens and Bruins (ESPN)
DAVID SHOALTS: Perhaps an outsider is what NHLPA needs (Globe & Mail)
KEVIN PAUL DUPONT: Healthy challenge awaits Bruins (Boston Globe)Subscriber site
DAN BARNES: Quinn's defensive project requires plenty of patience (Edmonton Journal)
HELENE ELLIOTT: Alexander Frolov is back in the Kings' lineup (Los Angeles Times)Subscriber site
MIKE ZEISBERGER: Best laid plans of ice 'n men (Toronto Sun)
BUCKY GLEASON: Hockey trend worsening by degrees (Buffalo News)
PAT HICKEY: Habs' Kostitsyn loses game of chicken with GM Gainey (Montreal Gazette)
IAIN MacINTYRE: Toews, Seabrook both battered in Blackhawks' loss (Vancouver Sun)
BRUCE GARRIOCH: Kuba's injury a pain for Sens (Ottawa Sun)
ROBERT TYCHKOWSKI: Bug puts damper on hot start (Edmonton Sun)
DANA WAKIJI: Penguins getting the jump on NHL (Detroit News)
STEVE BUCKLEY: Bruins man up (Boston Herald)
TOM POWERS: Wild create 18,000 puzzled viewers (St. Paul Pioneer Press)Subscriber site
ROB LONGLEY: Scorers try a little 3-on-3 to break slump (Toronto Sun)

10/21/09

SAM McCAIG: The view from below (The Hockey News)
E.J. HRADEK: Leafs may have gifted B's top overall pick (ESPN)
DARREN DREGOR: NHL may have new target for video review (TSN)
PIERRE LeBRUN: Duchene? Not surprising ... O'Reilly? You bet ... Why Avs chose to keep both kids (ESPN)
MARK SPECTOR: Penner finally gets it (Sportsnet)
JOHN BUCCIGROSS: Have no fear! There is a new look to Bucci-land (ESPN)
PAT HICKEY: 'We showed character,' Gionta says (Montreal Gazette)
DAN BARNES: Realistic expectations encourage Oilers (Edmonton Journal)
GEORGE JOHNSON: Finally! Iggy shows some familiar pop (Calgary Herald)
LARRY BROOKS: Blueshirts have priorities in order (New York Post)
WAYNE SCANLAN: Sens back in playoff style (Ottawa Citizen)
RED FISHER: Halak comes through (Montreal Gazette)
BRUCE GARRIOCH: Murray looks to lock up Volchenkov (Ottawa Sun)
ROBERT TYCHKOWSKI: Changed Oilers buying in (Edmonton Sun)
TONY GALLAGHER: Blackhawks: Seabrook still after spot on Olympic (Vancouver Province)
ERIC FRANCIS: Nash can feel Iggy's pain (Calgary Sun)
MIKE BOONE: Lecturer burrows into the Sainted Flannel (Montreal Gazette)
DAMIEN COX: Lots of time to crack Olympic lineup (Toronto Star)
PAT HICKEY: Russia trip works out for Popovic (Montreal Gazette)

10/20/09

KEN CAMPBELL: Union primed to be broken; Leafs getting off too easy (The Hockey News)
RAY FERRARO: Shootout success integral to a winning season (TSN)
ALLAN MUIR: More to Bruins' Kobasew trade than meets the eye (Si.com)
ADAM PROTEAU: Zombie wants return to a gritty game (The Hockey News)
BOB McKENZIE: NHL underage juniors likely to miss WJHC (TSN)
DARREN ELIOT: Dan Snyder lives on in new arena (Si.com)
MARK SPECTOR: On Spec (Sportsnet)
SCOTT BURNSIDE: Power Play: Rangers, Theo, cap play (ESPN)
MIKE BROPHY: Early-season auditions (Sportsnet)
E.J. HRADEK: Monday 10: Cold vengeance over weekend (ESPN)
LYLE RICHARDSON: Atlanta's future depends on Kovalchuk (Foxsports)
PIERRE LeBRUN: Kobasew trade a small one, but it sends a big message to the Boston Bruins (ESPN)
JUSTIN BOURNE: Season could be sunk if Toronto doesn't find an identity soon (USA Today)
BRUCE ARTHUR: Leafs pick up the pieces (National Post)
DAVE STUBBS: We need to keep calm: Cammalleri (Montreal Gazette)
CHRIS McCOSKY: Todd Bertuzzi: physical without fisticuffs (Detroit News)
HELENE ELLIOTT: Murray sends message to young Kings by sitting star winger Frolov (Los Angeles Times)Subscriber site
DEREK VAN DIEST: Injuries, lacklustre goalie play have 'Nucks flirting with basement (Edmonton Sun)
IAIN MacINTYRE: Brule takes a gruelling road back from NHL scrap heap (Vancouver Sun)
DAMIEN COX: NHLPA votes to set up investigative committee (Toronto Star)
DAVE STUBBS: Habs Gomez and Gionta score with the kids (Montreal Gazette)
CHRIS STEVENSON: Fisher on the rebound (Ottawa Sun)
TERRY FREI: Anderson soaking in superior Avs' start (Denver Post)
PAT HICKEY: Thrashers pull out stops to keep Kovalchuk (Montreal Gazette)
RACHEL BOUNT: Wild's Richards setting the bar high (Minnesota Star-Tribune)Subscriber site
BOB DUFF: Wilson at home with Avs (Windsor Star)

10/19/09

BRIAN COSTELLO: Time finally catching up to Predators (The Hockey News)
DARREN DREGOR: NHLPA tabs 4 veterans to spearhead review (TSN)
PIERRE LeBRUN: Ilya Kovalchuk on talks with Thrashers: 'I like it here … we'll see' (ESPN)
CRAIG CUSTANCE: Thrashers take time to honor 'one of the family' (The Sporting News)
PIERRE LeBRUN: 'Dan is here today watching over us' (ESPN)
DAVID SHOALTS: The only way is up (Globe & Mail)
ERIC DUHATSCHEK: Heatley feeling Shark’s bite (Globe & Mail)
LANCE HORNBY: Burke bravado backfires (Toronto Sun)
FRANK SERAVALLI: NHL shouldn't award losses (Philadelphia Daily News)
CHRIS McCOSKY: Wings' sloppy efforts could become bad habits (Detroit News)
DAMIEN COX: Leafs should go after Shanahan (Toronto Star)

10/18/09

SAM McCAIG: How Lidstrom stacks up against the all-time greats (The Hockey News)
CRAIG CUSTANCE: Paul Stastny: 'We're just four lines playing with confidence' (The Sporting News)
PIERRE LeBRUN: Would Ilya Kovalchuk consider KHL if talks fall through with Atlanta Thrashers? (ESPN)
GARTH WOOLSEY: Peter Puck and the art of the raw deal (Toronto Star)
RED FISHER: Who were they cheering for? (Montreal Gazette)
ARTHUR STAPLE: Will Doug Weight be with Isles all year? (New York Newsday)
ROB LONGLEY: Del Zotto delivering, already (Toronto Star)
TONY GALLAGHER: Gritty effort whets appetite (Vancouver Province)
DAVE STUBBS: Kovalev gets mixed welcome (Montreal Gazette)
BUCKY GLEASON: Lidstrom can be forgiven for one bad night (Buffalo News)
KEVIN PAUL DUPONT: On Broadway, only raves for method actors (Boston Globe)Subscriber site
TERRY JONES: Huge what-ifs (Edmonton Sun)
ROB ROSSI: Blues on call, but in blue, Pens fall (Pittsburgh Tribune Review)
TERRY FREI: Goalie Craig Anderson biggest difference for Avalanche's surprising start (Denver Post)
LARRY BROOKS: Latest sorry Fleury story may not be true (New York Post)
RED FISHER: Fergy's fists helped Habs to five Cups (Montreal Gazette)
ROSIE DiMANNO: 'Bad decisions' spoil promising start for Leafs (Toronto Star)
STEVE SIMMONS: Running back to Saskatoon (Toronto Star)

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