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What lessons should NHL Players' Association learn from Paul Kelly's dismissal?

By Pierre LeBrun

Monday, August 31, 2009

Shawn Horcoff's phone was filled with voice mail and text messages from his Edmonton Oilers teammates Monday. They wanted to know what the heck was going on. Great question. Horcoff, the Oilers' player representative, was one of the 30 executive board members who gave executive director Paul Kelly his walking papers in the middle of the night Sunday. Despite all the rumors and rumblings we had been hearing the past few weeks regarding Kelly's standing, it was still a stunning result. "Until w ...

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