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OPINION

9/15/12

KEN CAMPBELL: Could IIHF president Rene Fasel become IOC leader? (The Hockey News)
JOHN SHANNON: Failure to communicate (Sportsnet)
NICK KYPRIOS: Will the players stand tough (Sportsnet)
STU HACKEL: NHL CBA standoff hints at nuclear winter (Si.com)
SCOTT BURNSIDE: Doan is the last of the faithful (ESPN)
CHRIS NICHOLS: Pressure point in negotiations? (Sportsnet)
CRAIG MORGAN: Loyal Doan returns -- much to Coyotes' relief (Foxsports)
CRAIG CUSTANCE: For players, owners, test of will begins (ESPN)
LUKE FOX: 8+7 Thoughts on '87 Canada Cup (Sportsnet)
A.J. PEREZ: Revenue split at center of NHL talks (Foxsports)
PIERRE LeBRUN: The rules of a lockout (ESPN)
TIM WHARNSBY: NHLPA's Mathieu Darche is a risk-taker (CBC)
ADAM GRETZ: Shane Doan will remain with Coyotes (CBS Sportsline)
GORD STELLICK: A layman's view of the impending NHL lockout (CBC)
ROY MacGREGOR: NHL lockout provides Canadians a rare opportunity to break hockey addiction (Globe & Mail)
JEFFREY SIMPSON: Owners, players -- a plague on both their houses (Globe & Mail)
BRUCE ARTHUR: NHL lockout a stalemate seven years in the making (National Post)
KEVIN ALLEN: How to solve NHL labor dispute (USA Today)
BOB DUFF: Zetterberg learns from past (Windsor Star)
DAVE PERKINS: A new house of hockey rises out of old Maple Leaf Gardens (Toronto Star)
STEPHEN HARRIS: From skating to waiting (Boston Herald)
TIM BAINES: Little sympathy for owners (Ottawa Sun)
MICHAEL ARACE: Bettman speaks from owners' hip pocket (Columbus Dispatch)
WAYNE SCANLAN: Another lockout could bite Bettman in the behind (Ottawa Citizen)
TOM HOFFARTH: Stone cold lockout: Another delay to NHL season appears to be here -- again (Los Angeles Daily News)
CHRIS STEVENSON: Bettman cries poor while NHL teams go on spending spree (Ottawa Sun)
MIKE HEIKA: Rich deal for Dallas Stars' Kari Lehtonen comes on brink of lockout (Dallas Morning News)Subscriber site
DON BRENNAN: Spezza: Don't expect miracles (Ottawa Sun)
DAMIEN COX: New Leafs owners Rogers, Bell get painful introduction (Toronto Star)

9/14/12

ADAM PROTEAU: GMs smart to sign players under new CBA (The Hockey News)
MICHAEL GRANGE: Saner heads not prevailing (Sportsnet)
DAVID NAYLOR: Measuring up Fehr and Bettman in CBA showdown (TSN)
STEPHEN BRUNT: Fans forgotten in CBA Fight (Sportsnet)
CRAIG CUSTANCE: Cramming in deals before lockout (ESPN)
JESSE SPECTOR: As sides dig in, the game is about to freeze (The Sporting News)
MARK SPECTOR: Bettman bad for business (Sportsnet)
PIERRE LeBRUN: Crosby embraces leadership role in NHLPA (ESPN)
SEAN GENTILLE: Sidney Crosby's words are sad proof--the lines are drawn (The Sporting News)
SCOTT BURNSIDE: Time for Fehr to stand and deliver (ESPN)
ALLAN MUIR: NHL CBA hope vanishes in blizzard of words and numbers (Si.com)
KATIE STRANG: Players 'frustrated' but prepared for lockout (ESPN)
CHRIS NICHOLS: NHL lockout could help Jets (Sportsnet)
TIM WHARNSBY: Players united and not ready to budge to NHL owners (CBC)
PIERRE LeBRUN: Owners should fear Fehr's trump card (ESPN)
ELLIOTTE FRIEDMAN: Bettman should consider stepping away from talks (CBC)
JEFF BLAIR: Fehr has learned from his past (Globe & Mail)
BRUCE DOWBIGGIN: HBO series 24/7 could be catalyst for a deal (Globe & Mail)
KEN DRYDEN: League and players are fighting in an age of disagreement (Globe & Mail)
BRUCE ARTHUR: Mark your calendar; the NHL lockout starts Saturday night (National Post)
JEFF GORDON: Bettman's lockout will give you the Deja Blues (St. Louis Post Dispatch)
ROBERT TYCHKOWSKI: NHLPA has two choices when it comes to labour negotiations, both are bad (Edmonton Sun)
PAUL FRIESEN: Too bad, NHL fans (Winnipeg Sun)
LARRY BROOKS: Owners' avarice steers league to lockout (New York Post)
TONY GALLAGHER: Bettman's mess smells like the last one (Vancouver Province)
JOHN FEINSTEIN: Same old NHL labor story (Washington Post)Subscriber site
DAVID STAPLES: Katz Group and city council must avoid miserable failure on arena (Edmonton Journal)
GARY LAWLESS: All spin, no bargaining (Winnipeg Free Press)
FRANK SERAVALLI: Both sides united in NHL stalemate (Philadelphia Daily News)
JOHN NIYO: NHL owners, players reprise stubborn ways (Detroit News)
CHRIS STEVENSON: Jarome Iginla willing to lose another NHL season for a fair deal (Ottawa Sun)

9/13/12

RYAN KENNEDY: Five teams to watch in 2012-13 (The Hockey News)
DAVID ALTER: Scrivens deserving of deal (Sportsnet)
JESSE SPECTOR: Wednesday meltdown aside, there's a deal to be had -- maybe (The Sporting News)
MICHAEL GRANGE: No bridge for that gap (Sportsnet)
JESSE SPECTOR: Charity efforts likely to feel crunch during owner/player divide (The Sporting News)
SCOTT BURNSIDE: Will different dynamics save season (ESPN)
STU HACKEL: NHL CBA action in New York (Si.com)
PIERRE LeBRUN: CBA negotiations won't end anytime soon (ESPN)
TIM WHARNSBY: NHL, NHLPA continue on lockout collision course (CBC)
JAMES MIRTLE: Give and take between NHL and NHLPA not nearly enough (Globe & Mail)
BRUCE ARTHUR: NHL, players still speaking different languages in labour talks (National Post)
DAMIEN COX: Deadlines donÕt work if money isn't attached to them (Toronto Star)
CHRIS STEVENSON: NHL, players can't decide how to divide the revenue pie (Ottawa Sun)
FRANK SERAVALLI: Twisting in the NHL spin (Philadelphia Daily News)
ROBERT TYCHKOWSKI: NHLPA actually the good guys (Edmonton Sun)
PAUL FRIESEN: NHL labour negotiation headed for 50-50 split (Winnipeg Sun)
IAIN MacINTYRE: Vancouver Canucks' Roberto Luongo has 'no reason to be frustrated' with team, will remain patient for trade (Vancouver Sun)
STEVE BUFFERY: A few of my favourite things about the possible NHL lockout (Toronto Sun)
PAULA SIMONS: Katz Group makes PR blunder in asking for more (Edmonton Journal)
DON BRENNAN: Chabot to put Senators through paces (Ottawa Sun)
JOHN NIYO: NHL owners, players reprise stubborn ways (Detroit News)
MIKE BERARDINO: With Don Fehr running union, NHL players aren't about to blink (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
GARY LAWLESS: Lockout could do Jets good (Winnipeg Free Press)
GEORGE JOHNSON: Hartley and crew itching for camp to begin (Calgary Herald)

9/12/12

RORY BOYLEN: Overbearing parents ruin minor hockey for kids (The Hockey News)
MICHAEL GRANGE: Some talk, no action (Sportsnet)
SEAN GENTILLE: NHL labor: Sides to meet Wednesday, 3 days from lockout (The Sporting News)
ALLAN MUIR: Tyler Seguin's new contract shows GM Peter Chiarelli learned lesson (Si.com)
LUKE FOX: Bieber offered ECHL contract (Sportsnet)
SEAN GENTILLE: Sidney Crosby sharp in pre-NHL lockout workout, feeling '100 percent' (The Sporting News)
CHRIS NICHOLS: They 'seem deadset' on lockout (Sportsnet)
STU HACKEL: NHL's storm before the CBA calm (Si.com)
CRAIG CUSTANCE: Potential lockout winners and losers (ESPN)
SEAN GORDON: The NHL's greed creed (Globe & Mail)
SCOTT BURNSIDE: Don't blame Gary Bettman for lockout (ESPN)
CHRIS IORFIDA: Remembering the '87 Canada Cup, as best possible (CBC)
SEAN GORDON: The NHL's greed creed (Globe & Mail)
ERIC DUHATSCHEK: Seguin deal at odds with owners' plea of poverty (Globe & Mail)
BRUCE ARTHUR: More player unity means a longer NHL lockout (National Post)
JOHN BRENNAN: Devils get thumbs up for fan friendliness (Bergen Record)
GEORGE JOHNSON: Just tell us when you're going to play again (Calgary Herald)
CHRIS STEVENSON: Daniel Alfredsson the poster boy for NHLPA sacrifice (Ottawa Sun)
JONATHAN WILLIS: Oilers in great shape compared to other teams when it comes to potential NHL lockout payouts (Edmonton Journal)
TONY GALLAGHER: Tennis players can only look at NHL with envy (Vancouver Province)
KEVIN PAUL DUPONT: Amid uncertainty, Bruins give out big contracts (Boston Globe)Subscriber site
STEPHEN HARRIS: Who wants a lockout (Boston Herald)
MARK PURDY: NHL lockout will affect many (San Jose Mercury News)Subscriber site
ERIC FRANCIS: Flames backpedal on charity golf decision (Calgary Sun)

9/11/12

KEN CAMPBELL: NHL players united like never before (The Hockey News)
LUKE FOX: Lupul to Europe? (Sportsnet)
MICHAEL GRANGE: Heading nowhere, fast (Sportsnet)
BOB McKENZIE: Fear, loathing and 'I can't believe were doing this again' (TSN)
JESSE SPECTOR: Players' labor petition is about exhausting options, winning PR battle (The Sporting News)
PIERRE LeBRUN: Gretzky still stoked about 1987 Canada Cup win (ESPN)
CHRIS NICHOLS: Ready to go Sept 21 (Sportsnet)
STU HACKEL: Can NHLPA get lockout ruled illegal? (Si.com)
CRAIG CUSTANCE: The social media effect (ESPN)
TIM WHARNSBY: League calls NHLPA's labour board plights "a joke" (CBC)
PIERRE LeBRUN: Kings' Cup celebration dimmed by CBA (ESPN)
TIM WHARNSBY: New Maple Leaf Gardens worth 13-year wait (CBC)
ERIC DUHATSCHEK: Here's what the fans can do to take back their game (Globe & Mail)
DON BRENNAN: Cowen game for Bingo (Ottawa Sun)
WAYNE SCANLAN: Sideshows distract from NHL deal (Ottawa Citizen)
ANDREW GROSS: Duped fans should put NHL on ice for good (Bergen Record)
CHRIS STEVENSON: NHLPA's labour board tactic draws sharp retort from league (Ottawa Sun)
IAIN MacINTYRE: Canucks star Daniel Sedin 'not too optimistic' as Saturday NHL bargaining deadline looms (Vancouver Sun)
ERIC FRANCIS: Flames pull out of charity golf tourney (Calgary Sun)
LUKE DeCOCK: Why hockey can't get a labor deal done (Raleigh News & Observer)Subscriber site
IAN MENDES: Magic of Gretzky and Lemieux in '87 Canada Cup resonates 25 years later (Ottawa Citizen)
DAVE STUBBS: NHL seems locked-in for lockout says Erik Cole (Montreal Gazette)

9/10/12

JACK TODD: Subban a victim of stingy owners (Montreal Gazette)
MARK SUTCLIFFE: Why professional athletes arenÕt overpaid (Ottawa Sun)
DAVE STUBBS: Players' union looks at labour laws to block NHL lockout (Montreal Gazette)
TERRY JONES: Oilers coach Ralph Krueger ready for big step (Edmonton Sun)

9/9/12

MALCOLM KELLY: Summit Series: Russians outclass Canada, Esposito fumes (CBC)
JAMES MURPHY: Is Marchand's extension a bargain for B's? (ESPN)
GORD STELLICK: Summit Series Game 4: A new low (CBC)
STEVE SIMMONS: Why is Brooks in the Hall and not Henderson? (Toronto Sun)
DAVE CAMERON: Oil Kings' Griffin Reinhart given No. 4 by New York Islanders (Edmonton Sun)
SAM CARCHIDI: NHL owners, players no closer as deadline and lockout loom (Philadelphia Inquirer)
TONY GALLAGHER: It's time to consider getting rid of the NHLPA all together (Vancouver Province)
TERRY JONES: Second nature for Oilers Krueger (Edmonton Sun)
RANDY SPORTAK: Hockey fans in Canada, Russia not that different (Calgary Sun)
LARRY BROOKS: Owners go back on collective word (New York Post)

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