August 2010
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TSN, TSN2 TO SHOW 124 REGULAR SEASON NHL GAMES →
With the most nationally-televised NHL regular season games in Canada, TSN and TSN2 deliver Canada’s favourite pastime to fans from coast to coast with its 124-game NHL ON TSN broadcast schedule for the 2010-11 regular season. All games are available nationally in High Definition. Games and highlights are also available on demand on TSN.ca.
This year’s combined 124-game...
Ilya Kovalchuk to Sign New Contract with New... →
REPORT: NHL TO CHANGE REGULAR-SEASON TIEBREAKER... →
The NHL will change its regular-season tiebreaking system for the 2010-11 season, ESPN.com reported Saturday.
The first tiebreaker will be a combination of regulation time and overtime victories, with shootout wins excluded, according to the online report.
In the past, the first tiebreaker had been total wins of any kind.
Columbus Blue Jackets GM Scott Howson proposed the change at the...
The Province: Why the NHL won't void Roberto... →
So, Jason Botchford’s overall conclusion is that Luongo’s contract (and likely the other ones pointed to as “under investigation”) won’t be revoked following Kovalchuk’s, which is all well and good.
The interesting part of the article, though, is this:
Interestingly, the Canucks could have avoided the league’s ire. As a courtesy, before the contract...
Shit just got real...
From James Mirtle’s Globe and Mail article on the Kovi debacle:
Bloch also noted that several other long-term contracts are under investigation for circumvention, listing deals given to Vancouver Canucks netminder Roberto Luongo, Boston Bruins centre Marc Savard, Philadelphia Flyers defenceman Chris Pronger and Chicago Blackhawks winger Marian Hossa as raising similar red flags to...
Liz Mullen of the Sports Business Journal just tweeted that according to her sources, the arbitrator in the Kovalchuk case has sided with the league.
So, now the question is going to be, does he renegotiate with NJ? Sign in LA? Go to the KHL?
Also, how in the Hell do they justify, oh, every other front loaded contract that has a player supposedly active in their 40s (save for Pronger’s,...
