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OPINION

12/22/12

KEN CAMPBELL: Can't-miss NHL prospects - big pay day for McDavid; speedy Day to play for Canada (The Hockey News)
MARK SPECTOR: Grab your bowling shows (Sportsnet)
STU HACKEL: My favorite hockey stories of 2012 (Si.com)
JOHN SHANNON: No end in sight to NHL lockout (Sportsnet)
ALLAN MUIR: 2013 World Junior Championship preview (Si.com)
PIERRE LeBRUN: Will NHLPA go through with disclaimer? (ESPN)
ADAM GRETZ: Winnipeg seems to have a problem with Evander Kane (CBS Sportsline)
CHRIS NICHOLS: NHL pride dwindling (Sportsnet)
TIM WHARNSBY: Colgate's triplets finding their groove (CBC)
KEN DRYDEN: Concussions prevalent in many sports other than hockey (Globe & Mail)
KEN DRYDEN: The need to know more about concussions (Globe & Mail)
WAYNE SCANLAN: Never too old for hockey (Ottawa Citizen)
GREG DOUGLAS: Buble weighs in on the lockout, vintage-radio style (Vancouver Sun)
DAVE STUBBS: The year the Canadiens became the Keystone Cops (Montreal Gazette)
DAVE FESCHUK: To Russia, with no love lost (Toronto Star)
PAT HICKEY: Gauthier's bizarre moves led to downfall of Canadiens (Montreal Gazette)
CAM COLE: Lumps of coal for selected members of sports world (Vancouver Sun)
WES GILBERTSON: What might have been (Calgary Sun)
KEN WIEBE: Canada's 2005 roster might be best ever at a world junior (Winnipeg Sun)
DAMIEN COX: Even if NHL owners, players reach some sort of deal, the damage has been done (Toronto Star)

12/21/12

ADAM PROTEAU: Contentious issues would be magnified in 48-game season (The Hockey News)
KEN CAMPBELL: Players appear in favor of disclaiming interest (The Hockey News)
LUKE FOX: homesickness hits Couture (Sportsnet)
CRAIG CUSTANCE: Best fits for top six NHL draft prospects (ESPN)
STU HACKEL: A 'Yes' with a season in the balance (Si.com)
CHRIS NICHOLS: Hockey hearsay (Sportsnet)
GRANT SONIER: Top 30 prospects for the 2013 draft (ESPN)
ADAM GRETZ: League cancels games through Jan. 14 (CBS Sportsline)
TIM WHARNSBY: NHL's next cancellation will be the season (CBC)
ERIC DUHATSCHEK: Canadian appetite for NHL likely to endure (Globe & Mail)
DAVID SHOALTS: NHL players contemplating a leap into the great unknown (Globe & Mail)
DON BRENNAN: Ottawa Senators ready for the end of the world (Ottawa Sun)
JASON BOTCHFORD: Bubble players get chance to get healthy with latest NHL setback (Vancouver Province)
WAYNE SCANLAN: The end is near (Ottawa Citizen)
DAVE FESCHUK: Flyers' Wayne Simmonds reflects on hockey, racism in Europe (Toronto Star)
IAIN MacINTYRE: Home-for-the-holidays Chris Higgins used to thin ice (Vancouver Sun)

12/20/12

RYAN KENNEDY: Dreaming of an all-time game (The Hockey News)
SEAN GENTILLE: Bill Daly says 'yes,' but don't overdo optimism (The Sporting News)
MARK SPECTOR: Another scorn for the league (Sportsnet)
PIERRE LeBRUN: NHL normalcy missed at charity game (ESPN)
JESSE SPECTOR: On pay days in Toronto, R.A. Dickey is Dion Phaneuf (The Sporting News)
RYAN DIXON: Hands stand out (Sportsnet)
STU HACKEL: Two Minutes For Booking: The secrets of the C; more hockey reading (Si.com)
LUKE FOX: NHL hustlin' for the kids (Sportsnet)
CHRIS NICHOLS: Hockey hearsay (Sportsnet)
STEVE RUSHIN: As the lockout continues, how many people really miss hockey? (Si.com)
CRAIG CUSTANCE: What if every player was a free agent? (ESPN)
TIM WHARNSBY: Ryerson goalie crashes NHLPA charity game (CBC)
BRIAN STUBITS: Daly thinks season will happen; expects more cancellations (CBS Sportsline)
ELLIOTTE FRIEDMAN: Only NHL game being played is waiting game (CBC)
ERIC DUHATSCHEK: Canadian appetite for NHL likely to endure (Globe & Mail)
DAVID SHOALTS: NHLers play charity game at former shrine as lockout drags on (Globe & Mail)
MIKE ZEISBERGER: Locked-out NHLers hit old Maple Leaf Gardens (Toronto Sun)
PAT HICKEY: Galchenyuk on a roll heading into world junior tournament (Montreal Gazette)
TOM MAYENKNECHT: Is NHL flirting with Apuckalypse? (Vancouver Sun)
GARY LAWLESS: Kane's days are numbered in 'Peg (Winnipeg Free Press)
ED WILLES: Lockout will allow us to see all of CanadaÕs best players at World Junior Championship (Vancouver Province)
GEORGE JOHNSON: From Kane's twitter pic to Daly's ultimatum, NHL lockout continues ugly ride (Calgary Herald)
JOE WARMINGTON: Hockey night in Toronto (Toronto Sun)
BRENDA BRANSWELL: In lockout, the puck stops here (Montreal Gazette)
TONY GALLAGHER: NHL takes, players give, league says 'We want more' (Vancouver Province)
PAUL FRIESEN: Jets winger Evander Kane doesn't have a clue (Winnipeg Sun)
DAVE STUBBS: Nothing can tarnish the Stanley Cup (Montreal Gazette)

12/19/12

RORY BOYLEN: NHL, NHLPA so close, yet so far (The Hockey News)
MICHAEL GRANGE: JVR trying to win off the ice (Sportsnet)
BRIAN CAZENEUVE: Vital facts about the U.S. National Junior Team (Si.com)
JESSE SPECTOR: Go ahead, tear up those contracts--and hit the reset button (The Sporting News)
LUKE FOX: OKC's male pattern bonding (Sportsnet)
STU HACKEL: Beer leaguers no substitute for the real thing; more signs of lockout damage (Si.com)
CHRIS NICHOLS: Hockey hearsay (Sportsnet)
PIERRE LeBRUN: NHL, NHLPA waiting for the other to move (ESPN)
BRIAN STUBITS: How bad is perception of NHL? It's BP oil spill bad (CBS Sportsline)
TIM WHARNSBY: Crosby-led Canadian juniors only dream team (CBC)
KYLE WOODLIEF: Top NHL draft prospects on display after Christmas (USA Today)
GARY LAWLESS: Dithering NHL, union need to deal (Winnipeg Free Press)
IAIN MacINTYRE: Blue-liner Jason Garrison rejoins locked-out Canuck teammates (Vancouver Sun)
DAVE STUBBS: Subban, Stamkos face each other in charity game (Montreal Gazette)
ERIC FRANCIS: After NHL lockout, new Stanley Cup tradition shouldn't include Gary Bettman (Calgary Sun)
DON BRENNAN: Ottawa Senators centre Kyle Turris complains about Finland in newspaper story (Ottawa Sun)
BOB DUFF: In the mind of a Leafs fan (Windsor Star)
DON BRENNAN: Ottawa Senators bring Christmas cheer to CHEO patients (Ottawa Sun)
IAIN MacINTYRE: Record book victimized by NHL's lockout years (Vancouver Sun)

12/18/12

KEN CAMPBELL: NHL preoccupied with crushing NHLPA (The Hockey News)
PIERRE LeBRUN: No winning this lame blame game (ESPN)
CHRIS NICHOLS: Hockey hearsay (Sportsnet)
CRAIG CUSTANCE: Clarifying the disclaimer (ESPN)
STU HACKEL: NHL's CBA dispute enters legal swamp (Si.com)
SCOTT BURNSIDE: Only winning move is not to play (ESPN)
GORD STELLICK: NHL needs to 'make whole' with fans (CBC)
BRIAN STUBITS: Some suggestions for how NHL could win back fans in short season (CBS Sportsline)
TIM WHARNSBY: AHL Notebook: Jordan Eberle on a tear (CBC)
ROY MacGREGOR: NHL lockout doing 'alarming' damage to brand (Globe & Mail)
CAM COLE: Dissolution of NHLPA would result in chaos (Vancouver Sun)
GREGG KRUPA: Front-loaded deals on NHL owners' hit list (Detroit News)
MARCIA C. SMITH: Ducks' Boudreau, coaches left skating in circles (Orange County Register)
BOB DUFF: Charity game to feature former Wings (Windsor Star)
ERIC FRANCIS: Flames scouting staff 'nailed it' (Calgary Sun)
IAIN MacINTYRE: Edler's back, but may never be 100 per cent (Vancouver Sun)
IAN MENDES: Charities need an NHL truce (Ottawa Citizen)
JIM MATHESON: NHL, players union doing their best to alienate fans, destroy a $3.3-billion a year business (Edmonton Journal)

12/17/12

ERIC MACRAMALLA: The NHL's lawsuit and what's next (TSN)
CHRIS NICHOLS: Hockey hearsay (Sportsnet)
FRANK SERAVALLI: NHL lockout enters new arena: Court (Philadelphia Daily News)
CHRIS STEVENSON: NHLPA starts voting on disclaimer of interest (Ottawa Sun)
JASON GREGOR: NHL lockout ventures into a different arena with lawsuit (Edmonton Journal)
JACK TODD: Bettman can't take Canada's game away from us (Montreal Gazette)

12/16/12

JOHN SHANNON: Everybody loses (Sportsnet)
CRAIG CUSTANCE: NHL lawsuit is a pre-emptive strike (ESPN)
MARK SPECTOR: Sad state of affairs (Sportsnet)
GARY SHELTON: Rays, Bucs, Lightning have great examples of leadership (Tampa Bay Times)
BRUCE GARRIOCH: Ottawa Senators face wrath of angry fans (Ottawa Sun)
GREGG KRUPA: With tactics coming to a head, fate of NHL season will be known soon (Detroit News)
LARRY BROOKS: NHL fears Fehr itself (New York Post)
DON BRENNAN: Binghamton Senators love playing for coach Luke Richardson (Ottawa Sun)
SAM CARCHIDI: What would shortened NHL season look like? (Philadelphia Inquirer)

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