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Bettman's bottom line buried beneath cap

By Damien Cox
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, December 2, 2004

Ted Saskin was sort of right, and sort of wrong. Certainly, when the NHL Players' Association senior director said this week that NHL commissioner Gary Bettman was not the right man to lead the league, he could point to some points of NHL history and commerce as meaningful evidence. Saskin's inflammatory comments got everybody in the hockey world chattering, of course, and may indeed have been a rhetorical prelude to the union's announcement that it has a new proposal to give to the league next ...

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