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How ugly is this NHLPA drama? Read on

By Scott Burnside
ESPN.com

Monday, August 31, 2009

Imagine a group of cavemen sitting around a campfire roasting a mastodon. Now, imagine some of those Neanderthals leaping up and grunting, "Fire bad … cooked meat bad," before dousing the flames and leading the rest into a dark, damp cave. Now you have a sense of the shocking developments within the NHL Players' Association in the past 24 hours. Less than two years into Paul Kelly's role as NHLPA executive director, a small but determined group of lawyers and former players toppled him ...

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