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OPINION

10/6/12

KEN CAMPBELL: Why house league hockey is an attractive option (The Hockey News)
MARK SPECTOR: NHL players out of touch (Sportsnet)
JESSE SPECTOR: If owners are thinking big picture, where does TV contract fit? (The Sporting News)
SCOTT BURNSIDE: Deja vu for Andrew Ference (ESPN)
STU HACKEL: Oklahoma City Barons look like a force (Si.com)
PIERRE LeBRUN: NHL, union meet, plan to talk (ESPN)
TIM WHARNSBY: NHL players lash out after games cancelled (CBC)
BRIAN STUBITS: Would NHL expand after new CBA is reached? Why not? (CBS Sportsline)
ANDI PETRILLO: NHL fans more vocal than during '04 lockout (CBC)
ROY MacGREGOR: Is divvying up a $3.35-billion hockey pie really that hard? (Globe & Mail)
GARY LAWLESS: Twitter: the extra player (Winnipeg Free Press)
STEVE BUFFERY: Leafs or bust in GTA (Toronto Sun)
WAYNE SCANLAN: NHL players damned if they go, damned if they don't (Ottawa Citizen)
PAT HICKEY: New Bettman book paints gloomy picture (Montreal Gazette)
DAVE FESCHUK: Twitter-savvy Allan Walsh agent of change for players (Toronto Star)
CHRIS STEVENSON: Hey, NHL, what's in it for the fans? (Ottawa Sun)
SARAH McCLELLAN: Hard work, trail blazers paved my way (Arizona Republic)Subscriber site

10/5/12

RYAN KENNEDY: Are replacement players a viable option? (The Hockey News)
MIKE SMITH: Why the players will win in the long-run (The Hockey News)
LUKE FOX: NHLers to star in 'Entourage?' (Sportsnet)
JESSE SPECTOR: Canceling games is annoying, alienating and unnecessary (The Sporting News)
MICHAEL ROSENBERG: Gary Bettman deserves bulk of blame for another NHL lockout (Si.com)
CRAIG CUSTANCE: Seth Jones is ready for spotlight (ESPN)
CHRIS NICHOLS: The right thought process (Sportsnet)
STU HACKEL: NHL blundering toward lockout disaster (Si.com)
CRAIG CUSTANCE: The dangers of a condensed schedule (ESPN)
SCOTT BURNSIDE: Players need to protect the game (ESPN)
PIERRE LeBRUN: Rumblings: Time for new CBA proposal (ESPN)
TYLER MASON: Parise, Suter and Wild find lockout frustrating (Foxsports)
SCOTT BURNSIDE: Players need to protect the game (ESPN)
BRIAN STUBITS: League cancels first two weeks of regular-season schedule (CBS Sportsline)
TIM WHARNSBY: NHL cancels games: Thank you Captain Obvious (CBC)
KEVIN ALLEN: 50-50 split is NHL answer; find way to get there (USA Today)
BRUCE DOWBIGGIN: How will the NHL placate fans and business interests once lockout ends? (Globe & Mail)
CHRIS STEVENSON: With anger boiling, it's tough to pick sides in NHL labour dispute (Ottawa Sun)
HELENE ELLIOTT: NHL hits players' wallets, cancels regular-season games to Oct. 24 (Los Angeles Times)Subscriber site
DON BRENNAN: Sens' Neil says seal a deal (Ottawa Sun)
DEJAN KOVACEVIC: NHL deflects its own problems (Pittsburgh Tribune Review)
GARY LAWLESS: Stop the spin, we aren't buying it (Winnipeg Free Press)
CAM COLE: L-word episode looks like a repeat (Vancouver Sun)
ERIC FRANCIS: NHL lockout? Wake me when it's over (Calgary Sun)

10/4/12

ADAM PROTEAU: One-on-one with Donald Fehr (The Hockey News)
MICHAEL GRANGE: Taking one for the team (Sportsnet)
JESSE SPECTOR: The sides sound presidential--and that's a problem (The Sporting News)
STU HACKEL: KHL jumps the gun on ESPN deal (Si.com)
CHRIS NICHOLS: Don't run from lockout (Sportsnet)
CRAIG CUSTANCE: Lockout's impact on 2013 NHL draft (ESPN)
GORD STELLICK: Leafs goalie coach Rick St. Croix, the 2nd time around (CBC)
ERIC DUHATSCHEK: NHL owners would do well to listen to players (Globe & Mail)
MICHAEL ARACE: Stupidity, selfishness define NHL labor talks (Columbus Dispatch)
ERIC FRANCIS: Calgary's Jared Aulin now king of Orebro (Calgary Sun)
KEN WIEBE: Pasquale's stock on rise in Jets system (Winnipeg Sun)
DAMIEN COX: Leafs farmhand Keith Aucoin victim of lockout's 'trickle-down' effect (Toronto Star)
WAYNE SCANLAN: Leafs' handling of Kadri puzzling (Ottawa Citizen)
TONY GALLAGHER: Leafs' disclosure of young player's body fat score sounds familiar (Vancouver Province)

10/3/12

RORY BOYLEN: Barrie Colts' Gregg Sutch stuck on the sidelines (The Hockey News)
DARREN DREGOR: Frustrations building as CBA talks continue (TSN)
MARK SPECTOR: All about perspectives (Sportsnet)
JESSE SPECTOR: How does Gary Bettman's story end? (The Sporting News)
STU HACKEL: NHL lockout notebook: Scab threat, KHL on ESPN, and Senators weigh in (Si.com)
CHRIS NICHOLS: Kesler pretty far behind (Sportsnet)
CRAIG CUSTANCE: Coaches stuck in standby mode (ESPN)
TIM WHARNSBY: Jeff Twohey thriving with the enemy Generals (CBC)
PIERRE LeBRUN: It's Groundhog Day in CBA negotiations (ESPN)
ELLIOTTE FRIEDMAN: NHL landscape littered with landmines (CBC)
DAVID SHOALTS: A soft cap, with a tax, would solve NHL lockout (Globe & Mail)
BRUCE ARTHUR: Neither side willing to make the first move in NHL lockout (National Post)
STEVE SIMMONS: What if the NHL cut salaries and ticket prices in half? (Toronto Sun)
BRUCE GARRIOCH: Canadian NHL teams hit hardest during lockout as losses start piling up (Ottawa Sun)
PAT LEONARD: NHL lockout resolution? Don't hold your breath as league and players still far apart on core economic issues (New York Daily News)
DON BRENNAN: Ottawa Senators defenceman Chris Phillips carries on legacy of his late father (Ottawa Sun)
ERIC FRANCIS: NHL star influx during lockout fine with KHL (Calgary Sun)

10/2/12

KEN CAMPBELL: Krys Barch ramblings and ownership fires (The Hockey News)
MARK SPECTOR: NHL naive to steroid use (Sportsnet)
PIERRE LeBRUN: Couture feeling good about Swiss experience (ESPN)
JESSE SPECTOR: Everyone hates the preseason--so overhaul it (The Sporting News)
LUKE FOX: 'Being hated' part of Bettman's job (Sportsnet)
NEIL GREENBERG: Lost season could halt Hall passes (ESPN)
STU HACKEL: Blues lose as John Davidson departs (Si.com)
PIERRE LeBRUN: Gretzky content to sit back and watch (ESPN)
BRIAN STUBITS: Delving into process of negotiating new CBA (CBS Sportsline)
TIM WHARNSBY: No end in sight for labour dispute despite Gretzky's Jan. 1 hope (CBC)
IAN MENDES: The Senators stories you're missing -- and the cliches you aren't (Ottawa Citizen)
ANDREW GROSS: Rick Nash's injury overseas raises issues for NHL (Bergen Record)
DAMIEN COX: New Maple Leafs goalie coach Rick St. Croix back for another round in Toronto pressure-cooker (Toronto Star)
WAYNE SCANLAN: And the NHL serves up ... nothing (Ottawa Citizen)
MIKE ZEISBERGER: Wayne Gretzky sees hockey being played before 2013 (Toronto Sun)

10/1/12

CRAIG CUSTANCE: Barch goes off in the Twitterscape (ESPN)
BRIAN STUBITS: Sides break after five hours Sunday, won't meet Monday after all (CBS Sportsline)
JACK TODD: NHL, NFL owners show ugly face of unending greed (Montreal Gazette)

9/30/12

ADAM GRETZ: Sides have 'frank exchange of views' on hockey revenue (CBS Sportsline)
JEFF Z. KLEIN: Bettman Undisputed NHL Enforcer (New York Times)Subscriber site
LARRY BROOKS: It's up to players now (New York Post)
DAMIEN CRISTODERO: Financial pain not yet impetus for NHL labor deal (Tampa Bay Times)
TERRY JONES: Momentous move by Katz (Edmonton Sun)
TOM GULITTI: NHL needs NFL-like fan revolt (Bergen Record)
BILL SHAIKIN: Call it the Fehr Factor (Los Angeles Times)Subscriber site
SAM CARCHIDI: Phantoms stocked with talent (Philadelphia Inquirer)
DAVE FESCHUK: For Maple Leafs prospect Tyler Biggs, hockey's bred in the bone (Toronto Star)
MARIA C. SMITH: Paddock is pushing the limits of cerebral palsy (Orange County Register)

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