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GM Maloney optimistic (for now) amid ownership mess, Gretzky's absence

By Pierre LeBrun

Monday, September 14, 2009

OK, so let me get this straight ... Theo Fleury and Jason Allison were on the ice as NHL training camps opened, but Wayne Gretzky wasn't? Strange start to the NHL season, isn't it? It's sickening to see the game's greatest all-time player left twisting in the wind while the Phoenix Coyotes' ownership mess waits to be decided by a bankruptcy judge. Gretzky, the team's coach and managing partner, is doing the right thing by staying away until his role with the club is ironed out. But it has to ...

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