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OPINION

10/25/08

RYAN KENNEDY: Campus fight puts Ducks prospect on the sidelines (The Hockey News)
ALLAN MUIR: The outlook for 10 junior-eligibles (Si.com)
WES GOLDSTEIN: San Jose's Boyle set to face team that dealt him away (CBS Sportsline)
CRAIG CUSTANCE: Teams slowly reacting as bloggers hit the NHL (The Sporting News)
PIERRE LeBRUN: After one year as NHLPA's director, Kelly knows more tests to come (ESPN)
GARY LOEWEN: Sour Grapes? -- Cherry also 'arrogant' (Toronto Sun)
RED FISHER: A second NHL team in Toronto? Don't believe those unnamed sources (Montreal Gazette)
MARK EVERSON: Larry stays true to Devs (New York Post)
RED FISHER: Tears prove Blackhawks' Kane made of right stuff (Montreal Gazette)
RANDY SPORTAK: Hockey fans will enjoy Super Saturday's full slate of games, something NHL schedule-makers should do more often (Calgary Sun)
STEVE MacFARLANE: It's gotta star(t) somewhere (Calgary Sun)
RED FISHER: 'Weird little scene' plays out between Bruins' Ward and fan (Montreal Gazette)
JIM MATHESON: Gagner gets wake-up call (Edmonton Journal)
MIKE BOONE: Habs need defenceman (Montreal Gazette)
STEVE MacFARLANE: Stingy penalty killing corps breathe life into Flames (Calgary Sun)
PAY HICKEY: Koivu opens his home to TV viewers (Montreal Gazette)
BRUCE GARRIOCH: Khabby and 'Hawks know it (Ottawa Sun)
JAMES DUTHIE: Nothing left in ontario battle but geography (Ottawa Citizen)
BUCKY GLEASON: World Juniors coming to Buffalo (Buffalo News)
CHRIS STEVENSON: No one remembers No. 2, eh Daigle? Well, Pronger's wondering what happened to No. 1 from 1993 draft (Ottawa Sun)
WAYNE SCANLAN: Ducks and Sens Not So different (Ottawa Citizen)
DAMIEN COX: Martin Brodeur in a class by himself (Toronto Star)
SCOTT MORRISON: The Flyers need to string together some wins, and soon ... Vanek's value improves ... Bring your King-sized appetite (Toronto Sun)

10/24/08

ADAM PROTEAU: Hockey establishment full of hypocrisy in view of Sean Avery (The Hockey News)
JIM KELLEY: Marian Gaborik and Ilya Kovalchuk are a roll of the dice (Si.com)
WES GOLSDTEIN: Slow start could lead to scare in Philly before Halloween (CBS Sportsline)
AL STRACHAN: Blackhawks' Quenneville move was a good one (Foxsports)
GARE JOYCE: Tavares tries not to let all the talk affect him heading into '09 draft (ESPN)
JIM KELLEY: The Burke myth (Sportsnet)
TERRY FREI: How have top picks delivered in recent years? (ESPN)
BILL CLEMENT: Rangers to be a Broadway hit (MSNBC)
PIERRE LeBRUN: Why is this rookie crop making an impact? Preparation is key (ESPN)
ALLAN MAKI: Keenan's feet to the flames (Globe & Mail)
KEVIN ALLEN: Intriguing expansion sites not in league's immediate future (USA Today)
WAYNE SCANLAN: Sens still searching for their identity (Ottawa Citizen)
JIM SOUHAN: Lemaire holds it down at the X better than anyone (Minnesota Star-Tribune)Subscriber site
ROSIE DIMANNO: Sundin still no closer to decision (Toronto Star)
PAT HICKEY: Higgins dogged by rumours, groin injury (Montreal Gazette)
BRUCE GARRIOCH: Re-Leaf for NHL fans? (Ottawa Sun)
TONY GALLAGHER: Columbus a case study in NHL's struggle (Vancouver Province)
RICK SADOWSKI: Flyers taking two steps back (Denver Rocky Mountain News)
KEVIN PAUL DUPONT: They have an 'Axy' to grind (Boston Globe)Subscriber site
TOM POWERS: There's a way to solve Minnesota Wild's impasse with Marian Gaborik (St. Paul Pioneer Press)Subscriber site
GARY LOEWEN: Cherry picks at Leaf coach's "arrogance" (Toronto Sun)
CHRIS STEVENSON: Elgin St. wings, prayer for Ducks (Ottawa Sun)
JIM BAUMBACH: All Islanders need to do is follow Rays' model (New York Newsday)
DAMIEN COX: Senators' promise disappears (Toronto Star)
STEVE SIMMONS: Wilson raising the bar (Toronto Sun)
BRUCE GARRIOCH: Murray's chance to talk trade (Ottawa Sun)
WILLIAM HOUSTON: Avery's trash talk elicits trash talk from critics (Globe & Mail)

10/23/08

RYAN DIXON: GM role more about vision than intuition (The Hockey News)
ALLAN MUIR: Second team in Toronto isn't crazy (Si.com)
WES GOLDSTEIN: Vanek's offensive boost has Sabres off to hot start (CBS Sportsline)
CRAIG CUSTANCE: Swapping goalies in shootout gives teams no shot (The Sporting News)
MIKE BROPHY: Stunting Stamkos' growth (Sportsnet)
CRAIG CUSTANCE: When GMs meet, trade talk is always on the burner (The Sporting News)
MARK SPECTOR: Winds of change (Sportsnet)
SCOTT BURNSIDE: What lines are working? Depends on who's figured out the puzzle (ESPN)
DAVID SHOALTS: Bruins dreading the shootout (Globe & Mail)
SCOTT MORRISON: Expanding wallets (Toronto Sun)
LARRY BROOKS: No Jersey justice for Sean (New York Post)
LUKE DeCOCK: Finally, Bayda has secure spot with Canes (Raleigh News & Observer)

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WAYNE SCANLAN: No early senators storm (Ottawa Citizen)
DAMIEN COX: GM's delayed decision creates complications (Toronto Star)
DON BRENNAN: It's been just about pointless for Vermette, Fisher ... No more Lee-way ... Stillman could have been a contender (Ottawa Sun)
ARTHUR STAPLE: Sitting painful for DiPietro (New York Newsday)
BRUCE GARRIOCH: ''We hate losing' (Ottawa Sun)
STEVE SIMMONS: Best leaders rarely top stars (Toronto Sun)

10/22/08

SAM McCAIG: The Gabbo conundrum (The Hockey News)
MICHAEL FARBER: Choice matters for Mike Keenan, Noah Welch and Team Canada (Si.com)
RAY SLOVER: While Marian Gaborik rumors go wild, the Wild keep going (The Sporting News)
PIERRE LeBRUN: Another team in Toronto? Not yet (ESPN)
JIM KELLEY: Second coming in Toronto? (Sportsnet)
JOHN BUCCIGROSS: Here's why fighting is making a small comeback in the NHL (ESPN)
STEPHEN BRUNT: 2 in T.O.? (Globe & Mail)
BRUCE ARTHUR: Second Toronto NHL franchise seems more than unlikely (National Post)
GEORGE JOHNSON: Flames overcome their early demons (Calgary Herald)
BILL LANKHOF: Hamilton sick of being 'used' (Toronto Sun)
DON BRENNAN: Sens have had no fight in them so far (Ottawa Sun)
PAT HICKEY: Don't be so quick to believe rumours of Gaborik in a Canadiens uniform (Montreal Gazette)
MIKE ZEISBERGER: Think regional, instead (Toronto Sun)
TONY GALLAGHER: Lessons to be learned from six-game trip (Vancouver Province)
GARY LOEWEN: Another team in T.O.? Yeah, right (Toronto Sun)
WAYNE SCANLAN: Country club days are over (Ottawa Citizen)
MICHAEL ARACE: Flashes of brilliance pop up amid Jackets' 3-3 start (Columbus Dispatch)
JIM SOUHAN: Need to deal Gaborik has Risebrough on spot (Minnesota Star-Tribune)Subscriber site
ERIC FRANCIS: Sloan big hit at 'Dome (Calgary Sun)
GARY LOEWEN: Cup repeat in Wings commander's sights (Toronto Sun)
DAVE PERKINS: Second team for Toronto makes sense (Toronto Star)
MIKE BOONE: Back in the day, netminding was a mug's game (Montreal Gazette)
CHRIS STEVENSON: Alfie a Sen 'for life'? (Ottawa Sun)
STEVE BUFFERY: Burke wouldn't inherit a similar mess (Toronto Sun)
DON BRENNAN: The puck stops where? (Ottawa Sun)
DAMIEN COX: Wilson puts hammer to the Leafs (Toronto Star)

10/21/08

KEN CAMPBELL: Ken Holland the right man to lead Canada at Olympics (The Hockey News)
BRIAN CAZENEUVE: A sort of homecoming: Stars' Avery embraces villain role in MSG return (Si.com)
MARK SPECTOR: On Spec (Sportsnet)
DARREN ELIOT: The timeless goaltending brilliance of Martin Brodeur (Si.com)
MIKE BROPHY: Missing out on 2010? (Sportsnet)
LYLE RICHARDSON: Rumors running Wild about Gaborik (Foxsports)
DAMIEN COX: Things we know so far into the 2008-09 season (ESPN)
ERICK DUHATSCHEK: Ovechkin works his charms (Globe & Mail)
BRUCE DOWBIGGIN: Flames program needs new script (Calgary Herald)
DAN BARNES: PR lesson for Oilers, youngsters (Edmonton Journal)
GARY LOEWEN: Palin isn't Alaska's only big export (Toronto Sun)
DAVE DYE: Ducks lay an egg with start (Detroit News)
RED FISHER: Habs are running on all cylinders (Montreal Gazette)
TONY GALLAGHER: Roberto, when you going to turn off red light? (Vancouver Province)
GEORGE JOHNSON: Dream debut for Sloan (Calgary Sun)
TERRY JONES: Living the dream (Edmonton Sun)
BUCKY GLEASON: Extra effort paying off for Paille (Buffalo News)
HELENE ELLIOTT: Mistakes are costly to Kings (Los Angeles Times)Subscriber site
LARRY BROOKS: Avery a non-factor in return to Garden (New York Post)
MARCIA C. SMITH: Ducks help local Olympians continue the celebration (Orange County Register)
GEORGE JOHNSON: Blast from the past? (Calgary Herald)
BOB DUFF: McCarty a tattoo all-star (Windsor Star)
KEVIN PAUL DUPONT: Timing is poor, but passion endures (Boston Globe)Subscriber site
DON BRENNAN: Kuba not exactly a big hit (Ottawa Sun)
STEVE SIMMONS: Burke ducks question (Toronto Sun)
PAT HICKEY: Canadiens playing it safe in dealing with injuries (Montreal Gazette)
WAYNE SCANLAN: Canada requires Olympic makeover (Ottawa Citizen)
MIKE ZEISBERGER: Mighty different (Toronto Sun)

10/20/08

JACK TODD: NHL needs to crack down on head shots (Montreal Gazette)
ROBERT TYCHKOWSKI: Reversal of fortunes (Edmonton Sun)
ERIC FRANCIS: Building a legacy (Calgary Sun)
GARY LOEWEN: A mush win situation (Toronto Sun)
BRUCE GARRIOCH: Time for Sens to work it out (Ottawa Sun)
BOB DUFF: Ranger's death revealing (Windsor Star)
TERRY JONES: Four on the floor (Edmonton Sun)
LEN ZIEHM: Winning is salve for Savvy firing (Chicago Sun-Times)
STEVE BUFFERY: Lack of firepower making it tough for Leafs, Wilson (Toronto Sun)
BRUCE DOWBIGGIN: Good luck telling us the NHL is immune to economy woes (Calgary Herald)
JIM MATHESON: Brule takes time to recover from knee-on-knee hit (Edmonton Journal)
DAVE STUBBS: Black and gold in Kahnawake (Montreal Gazette)
MIKE ZEISBERGER: No one was snickering any more at all that summer hype after Brunnstrom began his NHL career with a hat trick (Toronto Sun)

10/19/08

CRAIG CUSTANCE: Q&A with Nashville Predators coach Barry Trotz (The Sporting News)
MIKE CHEN: How many games before you cut a coach? (Foxsports)
PIERRE LeBRUN: Fleming: "We just have to survive ... physically and emotionally" (ESPN)
LARRY BROOKS: Pain in the escrow (New York Post)
BRUCE GARRIOCH: Yzerman shoots for gold (Ottawa Sun)
JIM MATHESON: Hockey World (Edmonton Journal)
BOB SMIZIK: Quit pulling punches on fighting (Pittsburgh Post Gazette)
WAYNE SCANLAN: All eyes will be on Stevie Y's guys (Ottawa Citizen)
JOHN MacKINNON: New guy a big hit (Edmonton Journal)
NEIL BEST: Media treats Isles like second-class citizens (New York Newsday)
PAULA BOIVIN: Poor fans? Nope, we're discerning (Arizona Republic)
BRUCE GARRIOCH: No rush to draft bench boss (Ottawa Sun)
TERRY JONES: Smack-Intyre!!! (Edmonton Sun)
BUCKY GLEASON: Jacobs sees revenue slowdown for league (Buffalo News)
DAVE MOLINARI: Igloo might be one of the few places where there isn't panic these days (Pittsburgh Post Gazette)
DON BRENNAN: Manny's the man when it counts for the B's ... Kuba keeps making his points ... Sens steer clear of sin bin (Ottawa Sun)
JOHN MacKINNON: Kids hit short skid (Edmonton Journal)
KEVIN PAUL DUPONT: Views from the observatory (Boston Globe)Subscriber site
BRUCE GARRIOCH: Burying big salaries in minors turning into a major gripe among GMs ... Swedish 'stud' poised to unseat Tavares as No. 1 pick (Ottawa Sun)
STEVE SIMMONS: Schenn too good to send down ... (Toronto Sun)

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