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WHA stocking teams with NHL free agents

Associated Press

Saturday, July 17, 2004

NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario -- With a labor dispute threatening to postpone the NHL season, several star players were selected in the World Hockey Association's free agent draft Saturday. The WHA, a revival of a league by the same name that merged with the NHL in 1979, has plans for a 76-game schedule beginning Oct. 29, but it isn't clear whether its eight franchises will be operational by then. Teams drafting top players did so in the hopes that the NHL season is wiped out. The collect ...

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