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Gap widening between haves, have-nots

By Terry Frei
Special to ESPN.com

Tuesday, December 2, 2003

Where does it say this in the NHL's collective bargaining agreement? "In the final season of this agreement, as the NHL and NHLPA each leak equally preposterous opening bargaining proposals and publicly excoriate each other for ignoring said equally preposterous proposals, inferior teams can pack it in early. Moreover, however, this shall not be perceived to refer to an on-ice strategy in the first period. Rather, this shall be interpreted as license for said franchises to give up long before i ...

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