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Owner issues shouldn't get in way of NHL's progress

By Scott Burnside
ESPN.com

Friday, July 18, 2008

In a summer when the National Hockey League should be celebrating so much -- a terrific postseason, last season's outdoor game in Buffalo, this upcoming season's Winter Classic in Chicago, regular-season openers in Stockholm and Prague, a new generation of stars more than capable of erasing the sins of the past -- leave it to the league's owners to rain on their own parade. Sad, but utterly predictable. The postseason wasn't even over and Anaheim Ducks owner Henry Samueli was already admitting ...

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