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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...

NHLPA Throws Down Gauntlet with IIHF

While most of us in North America were trying to find a way to get away from the heat, Paul Kelly, head of the National Hockey League Players Association wasn't being chary about raising the heat when it came to the fight that's beginning to engulf international hockey. On Saturday, Kelly released a statement protesting an...

Is the NHLPA Digging In for a Fight?

When the NHLPA announced that it hired Glenn Healy away from the television studios to become their "Director of Player Affairs", I was rather happy that our airwaves were now free of his crappy color commentary, and that was the end of that.What I didn't expect, however, was that this hiring could be the signal that the...

What Gene Upshaw Loves, Hates About the NHL Players Association

NFL Players Association executive director Gene Upshaw wanted to make a statement about the steely resolve his members would have in a potential labor showdown with the League. And he decided to use the NHLPA as Exhibit A: "We are not hockey players," Upshaw said Thursday afternoon. "And they are not hockey owners. So this...

An 84-Game Schedule: Coming to an NHL Near You?

Does anyone feel that the NHL season is too short? Do you not get enough hockey after 82 regular season games and four rounds of playoffs to satiate your addiction?The answer is YES, if you are NHLPA head honcho Paul Kelly. In his mind, it's really quite simple: one more home game per team equals more revenue which equals...

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05/31/12 Friday footy fun: The Fat XII Source: news.com.au You can Thank Fox It's Friday and join us for The Fat , a look at sport from a rather different angle.
05/29/12 Fire destroys family's Australian dream Source: Gold Coast Bulletin PAUL Kelly watched in horror as his family home in Highland Park was gutted after flames erupted from the garage home about 7pm last night.
05/23/12 Singleton and Kelly to shoot cancer awareness warning... Source: Border Mail JOHN Singleton, Paul Kelly and Wagga will star in a television commercial promoting bowel cancer awareness.
05/23/12 Paul Kelly On Mountain Stage Source: NPR Australian singer-songwriter Paul Kelly makes his fifth appearance on Mountain Stage , recorded live in Charleston, W.V. Kelly has been recording for more than 25 years, earning awards back home for his film and TV compositions and a cult-like following in the U.S. and abroad.
05/22/12 NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Push for new laws to attack... Source: News Weekly The Gillard Labor Government's inquiry into new anti-discrimination legislation has become the source of a concerted attack on churches, independent schools and government funding to church-based welfare organisations.