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Despite CBA uncertainty, Lacroix carries on

By Terry Frei
Special to ESPN.com

Friday, August 27, 2004

So if Gary Bettman and Bob Goodenow surprise us, meet on Prince Edward Island and decide on terms of a new collective bargaining agreement that enables the NHL to play a full season, it better not include an immediate hard salary cap of, say, $42 million. Or if it does, the Colorado Avalanche will be scrambling, trying to figure out how to get under that figure. Most likely, this is all moot, of course, given the Players Association's stance that a hard salary cap is a "non-starter," and the ...

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