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OPINION

12/06/08

RYAN KENNEDY: The lost art of autograph collecting (The Hockey News)
ALLAN MUIR: The 2009 NHL Mock Draft (Si.com)
WES GOLDSTEIN: Ruff's position safe for now despite rough times in Buffalo (CBS Sportsline)
CRAIG CUSTANCE: Capitals facing injuries, adversity head-on (The Sportine News)
MIKE BROPHY: Avoiding Avery (Sportsnet)
AL STRACHAN: Avery, Bettman on the wrong side for hockey (Foxsports)
MARK SPECTOR: Financial roughing (Sportsnet)
GARE JOYCE: Ann Arbor could yield more young NHL-caliber stars at 2009 draft (ESPN)
ERIC DUHATSCHEK: Avery mess overshadows on-ice excellence (Globe & Mail)
MICHAEL GRANGE: Tanenbaum closer to dream (Globe & Mail)
ROB LONGLEY: Where's the beef? (Toronto Sun)
GEORGE JOHNSON: It's up to Avery to get help (Calgary Herald)
FILIP BONDY: Sean Avery's suspension a lifetime achievement award (New York Daily News)
RED FISHER: Stars GM Hull could pay a big price for decision to sign Avery in first place (Montreal Gazette)
MICHAEL ARACE: Avery's clearly a jerk, but disciplining him is tricky (Columbus Dispatch)
JOHN MacKINNON: Bettman's punishment fails to go far enough (Edmonton Journal)
WAYNE SCANLAN: Sens must act now (Ottawa Citizen)
RANDY SPORTAK: Yes, NHL bad boy deserves anger (and stupidity) counselling, but league needs help handing down suspensions that work (Calgary Sun)
BOB DUFF: All's well with Wellwoods (Windsor Star)
RICH CHERE: Claude Lemieux will make it back to the NHL (Newark Star Ledger)
LARRY BROOKS: Rangers seeking crisper play (New York Post)
GARY LOEWEN: Trash-talking Avery becomes NHL pariah (Toronto Sun)
BRUCE GARRIOCH: 'Hopefully Avery learns from it' (Ottawa Sun)
LARRY BROOKS: Time of will help Avery (New York Post)
PAT HICKEY: Suspending bad-boy Avery is a good start (Montreal Gazette)
TERRY KOSHAN: Although they didn't defend Avery, a couple of ex-teammates offer words of support ... Injuries fail to slow Bruins, Caps (Toronto Sun)

12/05/08

ADAM PROTEAU: Avery doesn't care; why should we? (The Hockey News)
KOSTYA KENNEDY: Sid The Kid's putting on a show (Si.com)
JIM KELLEY: Laviolette learns what a Cup is worth, and readers sound off (Si.com)
WES GOLDSTEIN: Bargains and busts: From Red hot to Wildly disappointing (CBS Sportsline)
JIM KELLEY: Gone in 32 seconds (Sportsnet)
JASON WHITLOCK: Avery might be dumb, but Bettman overreacted (Foxsports)
PIERRE LeBRUN: Meet the Limbo Club -- players without a team, fighting against the clock (ESPN)
KEVIN ALLEN: Avery's worst offense has been being a bad teammate (USA Today)
COLBY COSH: Sean Avery is a bad, bad boy, thank God (National Post)
GARY LOEWEN: New putter a perfect fit for Leafs' Blake (Toronto Sun)
BERNIE LINCICOME: Avery vulgarity no match for NHL thuggery Denver Rocky Mountain News)
RED FISHER: Rangers look like playoff pretenders (Montreal Gazette)
TONY GALLAGHER: Little big Koivu is intense both on and off ice (Vancouver Province)
SAM DONNELLON: Flyers' Sbisa shows that a young man is still a man (Philadelphia Daily News)
JOHN MacKINNON: Sharks devouring NHL opposition in campaign's early going (Edmonton Journal)
LUKE DeCOCK: Mo's arrival feels a little like 'Wall Street' (Raleigh News & Observer)

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BRUCE GARRIOCH: Sparring school pays off for wanted Winchester (Ottawa Sun)
PAT HICKEY: At last, reality seeps into All-Star Game voting (Montreal Gazette)
ROB LONGLEY: Leafs' room is better off without Avery (Toronto Sun)
MARY ORMSBY: Only thing `sloppy' is Bettman's judgment (Toronto Star)

12/04/08

RYAN DIXON: Avery’s act finally played out (The Hockey News)
JAMES DEACON: Agitator Sean Avery's latest stunt truly boggles the mind (AOL Sports)
MICHAEL FARBER: Pot-stirrer Avery gets burned (Si.com)
WES GOLDSTEIN: Given an opening, Stars should close door on Avery (CBS Sportsline)
ALLAN MUIR: Stars are fed up with Avery's antics (Si.com)
CRAIG CUSTANCE: Avery apology: Step toward reconciliation or departure? (The Sporting News)
MARK SPECTOR: The Mouth That Roared (Sportsnet)
PIERRE LeBRUN: Laviolette's firing shows a coach's shelf life is short in postlockout NHL (ESPN)
CRAIG CUSTANCE: Crosby's surge: I played with Malkin a few times (The Sporting News)
DAMIEN COX: What message should we take from NHL's suspension of words? (ESPN)
ERIC DUHATSCHEK: Did Avery breach his Stars contract? (Globe & Mail)
JENNIFER FLOYD ENGEL: Crass Avery is now irrelevant to Dallas Stars (Fort Worth Star Telegram)Subscriber site
TERRY JONES: Home, cool home (Edmonton Sun)
ERIC FRANCIS: Taunter not smirking now (Calgary Sun)
TED MONTGOMERY: Some hockey lingo deserves a spot in the penalty box (USA Today)
DAMIEN COX: This time could be different for Maurice (Toronto Star)
JASON BOTCHFORD: Bernier counting goals not sheep (Vancouver Province)
DON BRENNAN: Book it! Dominant on shelves, Dany delivers for Pizza Line ... Scrappy Winchester comes out with all guns blazing (Ottawa Sun)
THOMAS BOSWELL: On Top of Their Game (Washington Post)Subscriber site
DAN BARNES: A Hull of a situation (Edmonton Journal)
LUKE DeCOCK: Are old pals the best ones? (Raleigh News & Observer)

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RANDY SPORTAK: Avery hurts the game (Calgary Sun)
MIKE HEIKA: If Avery's out, what now for the Dallas Stars? (Dallas Morning News)Subscriber site
PAT HICKEY: No sympathy for pest Avery from Laraque (Montreal Gazette)
STEVE SIMMONS: Worst side of hockey (Toronto Sun)
WAYNE SCANLAN: Donovan, Vermette, Fisher impressive (Ottawa Citizen)
WILLIAM HOUSTON: Viewership increases sharply for hockey (Globe & Mail)

12/03/08

SAM McCAIG: Would a Habs All-Star ballot sweep be that bad? (The Hockey News)
MICHAEL FARBER: Kovalchuk soldiers on, Oil's not well, and the Norris race (Si.com)
JIM KELLEY: Goal is to get better (Sportsnet)
MIKE BROPHY: This Star is falling fast (Sportsnet)
SCOTT BURNSIDE: Isolated incident? No, Avery's career has been defined by indiscretions (ESPN)
ERIC DUHATSCHEK: NHL acts swiftly as Avery steps over line (Globe & Mail)
DAVID SHOALTS: McLellan makes good on golden chance (Globe & Mail)
DAN BARNES: Standing in the line of fire (Edmonton Journal)
TIM COWLISHAW: should have let Flames punish Dallas Stars' Avery (Dallas Morning News)Subscriber site
ERIC FRANCIS: Dion takes high road after diss (Calgary Sun)
ROB LONGLEY: New coach brings culture shift to San Jose (Toronto Sun)
JOHN MacKINNON: Avery crosses line -- again (Edmonton Journal)
PAT HICKEY: Avery is wearing out his welcome - again (Montreal Gazette)
TONY GALLAGHER: Babcock likes what he's seeing from his Red Wings (Vancouver Province)
GEORGE JOHNSON: 'It's about winning' (Calgary Herald)
MARK PURDY: Wilson gets respectful reception in his return (San Jose Mercury News)Subscriber site
PHIL SHERIDAN: Thanks to Biron, Hartnell's glove toss at Malone was just a funny story (Philadelphia Inquirer)
ROBERT TYCHKOWSKI: 'Open canvas' (Edmonton Sun)
ERIC FRANCIS: Super-pest crosses line, should cost him his career (Calgary Sun)
WAYNE SCANLAN: Ottawa's Escape Getting harder (Ottawa Citizen)
STEVE BUFFERY: Brian Burke has some time to get acquainted with his new roster, but once he does his first order of business must be to deal Jason Blake (Toronto Sun)
BRUCE DOWBIGGIN: Trash talkers should be dealt with in-house (Calgary Herald)
COLIN STEVENSON: The end of the checking line as we know it? (Newark Star Ledger)
JIM MATHESON: Room for a few more banners in Rexall's rafters (Edmonton Journal)
KEVIN PAUL DUPONT: Out of cold storage (Boston Globe)Subscriber site
MIKE BOONE: Oh to be immortalized as the butt of pigeon poop (Montreal Gazette)
RICH HOFMANN: With Tocchet, you always know where you stand (Philadelphia Daily News)
DON BRENNAN: Forward thinking (Ottawa Sun)
GEORGE JOHNSON: Classless Star (Calgary Herald)
DAMIEN COX: Vile Avery trash-talking himself out of the game (Toronto Star)
RED FISHER: It should have been a walk in the park (Montreal Gazette)
BRUCE GARRIOCH: Stuck in the 'O' zone (Ottawa Sun)
GARY LOEWEN: Plaxico, politics, Bettman ... what crisis? (Toronto Sun)

12/02/08

KEN CAMPBELL: Who are Canada's centers at 2010 Olympics (The Hockey News)
DARREN ELIOT: Cherry's new book is a sweet read (Si.com)
LYLE RICHARDSON: What's in store for Leafs under Burke? (Foxsports)
SCOTT BURNSIDE: Kovalev's missing game, power-play debates and potential politics in Toronto (ESPN)
DAVID SHOALTS: Players look for roles in Burke's masterplan (Globe & Mail)
ERIC DUHATSCHEK: San Jose knows the way to first place in NHL (Globe & Mail)
GARY LOEWEN: Burkie has got to go (Toronto Sun)
DAN BARNES: Standing in the line of fire (Edmonton Journal)
BOB DUFF: Burke by no means perfect (Windsor Star)
PAT HICKEY: Kostitsyn might need reality check (Montreal Gazette)
BOB HUNTER: Blue Jackets' potential for improvement encouraging (Columbus Dispatch)
ED WILLES: Life with Brian interesting in extreme (Vancouver Province)
HELENE ELLIOTT: Loss is a tough lesson for the Kings (Los Angeles Times)Subscriber site
ROBERT TYCHKOWSKI: Another opportunity for Schremp (Edmonton Sun)
WAYNE SCANLAN: Ottawa's Escape Getting harder (Ottawa Citizen)
GARY LOEWEN: Ocho Cinco's Leafs bro (Toronto Sun)
DAVE DYE: Don't look for Lemieux's return (Detroit News)
RED FISHER; Esposito trade revived tired Bruins (Montreal Gazette)
CHRIS STEVENSON: Vermette snaps at practice (Ottawa Sun)
BILL LANKHOF: Big dreams, little chance (Toronto Sun)

12/01/08

MIKE BROPHY: Blockbuster Burke (Sportsnet)
BRUCE ARTHUR: Congrats, MLSE, it's about time (National Post)
DAVID SHOALTS: Kings show Leafs how it can be done (Globe & Mail)
BRUCE ARTHUR: Congrats, MLSE, it's about time (National Post)
ERIC DUHATSCHEK: Blackhawks writing exciting new chapter (Globe & Mail)
TERRY KOSHAN: McLellan has the Sharks playing great hockey ... It has gone from bad to worse for Tampa ... Afinogenov sputtering (Toronto Sun)
BRUCE DOWBIGGIN: Sundin would inject life into battle for the Northwest (Calgary Herald)
MIKE BOONE: Komisarek suits up for stint behind bench (Montreal Gazette)
DON BRENNAN: Goalie's Auld they got (Ottawa Sun)
LUKE DeCOCK: Crowds dwindle at RBC (Raleigh News & Observer)

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JACK TODD: Hogtown eats GMs for breakfast (Montreal Gazette)
GARY LOEWEN: Getting charge from Vesa (Toronto Sun)

11/30/08

CRAIG CUSTANCE: Burke won't blow up the Maple Leafs roster yet (The Sporting News)
LARRY BROOKS: It's time for NHL to throw in the towel (New York Post)
TONY GALLAGHER: Tough guy getting tougher to play against (Vancouver Province)
GEORGE JOHNSON: Young goalie shines in debut (Calgary Herald)
BEN KUZMA: Viggy's hand easy on reins (Vancouver Province)
BILL LANKHOF: Man, myth, legend (Toronto Sun)
KEVIN PAUL DUPONT: That 'B' stands for 'Believe' (Boston Globe)Subscriber site
DON BRENNAN: As Zack Smith's NHL journey begins, Hartsburg takes a trip down memory lane ... Comrie hoping to make a difference (Ottawa Sun)
JASON BOTCHFORD: The toughest act to follow (Vancouver Province)
JOHN SHORT: Roli's playing brain games (Edmonton Sun)
DAMIEN COX: Burke has skills to beat sizeable odds (Toronto Star)
MARK HERRMANN: Isles' Bailey youthful but lacks scoring finish (New York Newsday)
THEOREN FLEURY: Better the Devil You Know (Calgary Herald)
MICHAEL RUSSO: Wild not anti-American (Minnesota Star-Tribune)Subscriber site
ED WILLES: 'Who wants a kid who's different?' (Vancouver Province)
CHUCK GORMLEY: Gagne wants head shots taken out of the game (South Jersey Courier-Post)
STEVE GORTEN: First things first (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
MIKE ZEISBERGER: Lessons from Burke C.I. (Toronto Sun)
RED FISHER: A chance to get back in the chase (Montreal Gazette)
BRUCE GARRIOCH: Feeding blood lust in a peaceful land (Calgary Herald)
RANDY YOUNGMAN: Ducks fans should thank Burke, not question him (Orange County Register)
BRUCE GARRIOCH: Hossa's Motor City gig might be just revving up ... Burke says no to Sundin return ... Nobody's Wild about Gaborik (Ottawa Sun)
TONY GALLAGHER: Blue Jacket suits Columbus's rookie centre (Vancouver Province)
DAVE MOLINARI: A study in nutrition (Pittsburgh Post Gazette)
BUCKY GLEASON: Nichols product Mueller takes scenic route to pros (Buffalo News)
GARTH WOOLSEY: Seven-time Cup winner's seen it all (Toronto Star)
GARTH WOOLSEY: Organized hockey fans also vote for change (Toronto Star)
STEVE SIMMONS: Leafs' Kaberle checks his options ... Who is Canada's best of 2008? ... Bravo to Bruins' Chiarelli ... Hands of stone hold knife and fork (Toronto Sun)

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