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NHLPA Has a Heavyweight in Donald Fehr

The battle lines have been drawn for a long time and now that NHL players have finally found credible leadership in Donald Fehr, the preparations for what could be a messy war will soon begin. According to several reports, Fehr, who led the Major Baseball players union from 1986 to 2009, has agreed to become head of the...

Paul Kelly Admits Escrow Payments to Rise

Last night between games on HNIC, NHLPA executive director Paul Kelly was interviewed by Ron MacLean (link to HD video of the entire interview). The first thing they discussed was the rumor that escrow payments made by the players would be rising from 13% of their pay to 17-20%. Kelly wouldn't say exactly how much the...

Will the US Dollar Sink the Salary Cap?

For those who follow the goings on in the financial markets closely, the recent rally in the US Dollar in terms of the trade-weighted index was quite an event, considering the extreme weakness of world's reserve currency over the past 7 years. The blast upwards to 76 on the index has some people proclaiming (and I'm not...

Glen Metropolit's Big Give

Few ever associate Canadian cities and low class "projects" in the same breath, but Canada, like any other country, has its share of communities where people barely scrape by on welfare and minimum wage jobs.Regent Park, an area of Toronto, is the picture of a typical "American" inner city: Drug dealers, prostitutes,...

Hello Numminen! Sabres Re-Up with Teppo

It's been in the works for a while now, but yesterday the parties made it official by agreeing to a one-year $1.1 million contract to bring more-than-veteran defenseman Teppo Numminen back to the Blue and Gold for 2008-09. It seems the stumbling block was the outstanding grievance that Numminen filed with the NHLPA over...