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How do you not know Ray the fokin wizard Whitney??

Great Canadien Kid. Coulda been the next Gretz.
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Good lord!!! The Wizard? He's a good Canadian kid for sure, but I'm not so sure that Dallas will be a good fit for him. Phoenix played a more defensive first type of style, but not sure about the Dallas system.

Wasn't Ray Whitney Edmonton's stick boy when he was a kid???
 
Not only that FW, shitty owners and GM's who went out and signed certain players to INSANE fucking deals just before the CBA expired only to cry poor a couple days later. Being a die hard hockey fan, that really pissed me off and I've been on the players side ever since.
 
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Not only that FW, shitty owners and GM's who went out and signed certain players to INSANE fucking deals just before the CBA expired only to cry poor a couple days later. Being a die hard hockey fan, that really pissed me off and I've been on the players side ever since.
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Yup. Most every sports labor issue isn't players vs owners, its small markets vs big markets. Hockey is different in which some of the small markets are big US cities in non-hockey hotbeds.
 
http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=nhl/news/news.aspx?id=4554574

Tentative deal in place to end NHL lockout


New York, NY (Sports Network) - The National Hockey League and the Players' Association reached an agreement on the framework of a new collective bargaining agreement to end the lockout that has been in place since mid- September.
The breakthrough came after a 16-hour marathon negotiating session that lasted all day Saturday and into Sunday morning at the Sofitel Hotel. The NHL announced the agreement in principle shortly after 5 a.m. ET Sunday.
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and union head Donald Fehr stood together announcing they had the framework of a new contract.
"Don Fehr and I are here to tell you that we have reached an agreement on the framework of a new collective bargaining agreement, the details of which need to be put to paper," Bettman said in front of several reporters. "We have to dot a lot of I's and cross a lot of T's. There is still a lot of work to be done, but the basic framework has been agreed upon. We have to go through a ratification process and the Board of Governors has to approve it from the league side and, obviously, the players have to approve it as well. We are not in a position to give you information right now about schedule, when we are starting. It's early in the morning and we have been at this all day and all night, obviously. But, we will be back to you very shortly, hopefully, later today with more information in that regard."
The league said the new labor package, which will reportedly be for 10 years, must be "drafted and formerly approved by both parties" before it can be finalized.
The NHL and its Players' Association had met separately with a federal mediator throughout the day Friday and into the evening. On Saturday afternoon, the two sides met face-to-face with federal mediator Scot L. Beckenbaugh as they worked toward a new labor deal.
Bettman has said a regular-season schedule of at least 48 games must begin by Jan. 19. The existing 2012-13 NHL schedule has already been canceled through Jan. 14.
The two sides have been without a CBA since the previous one expired just before midnight on Sept. 15.
Depending on ratification of the new CBA, training camps could open in the middle of the coming week.
TSN of Canada reports the 10-year deal also has an opt-out clause that kicks in after eight years.
 
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