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	<title>Comments on: Bettman: &#8220;We very much want to preserve a full 82-game season&#8221;</title>
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		<title>By: davebabychreturns</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:37:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well I was asking for the youtube clip, anyway.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well I was asking for the youtube clip, anyway.</p>
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		<title>By: blomfeld</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[blomfeld]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 03:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Achtung Babych !

Your pathetic attempts to insult me and my writing style, are akin to some fool throwing tennis balls at a King Tiger &quot;Main&quot; Battle tank ! ... or in other words, an exercise in &quot;complete and utter&quot; futility !  Both Luongo&#039;s 46 million dollar contract and his continued &quot;annoying&quot; presence in the locker room, are massive &quot;AIG-sized&quot; conundrums which need to be remedied &quot;asap&quot; ! ... if you can&#039;t understand that, then you&#039;re obviously not a very insightful Canuck&#039;s fan !

Man, do we Kings ever have something in store for you clowns this year !  :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JDkdc246QQ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Achtung Babych !</p>
<p>Your pathetic attempts to insult me and my writing style, are akin to some fool throwing tennis balls at a King Tiger &#8220;Main&#8221; Battle tank ! &#8230; or in other words, an exercise in &#8220;complete and utter&#8221; futility !  Both Luongo&#8217;s 46 million dollar contract and his continued &#8220;annoying&#8221; presence in the locker room, are massive &#8220;AIG-sized&#8221; conundrums which need to be remedied &#8220;asap&#8221; ! &#8230; if you can&#8217;t understand that, then you&#8217;re obviously not a very insightful Canuck&#8217;s fan !</p>
<p>Man, do we Kings ever have something in store for you clowns this year !  <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text/html' width='635' height='388' src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/8JDkdc246QQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></p>
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		<title>By: blomfeld</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[blomfeld]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 03:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Praetorian Guards:  You there, halt ! ... are you an Ovechkin lover ?

husky2score:  hey man, like yeah ? ... like, he&#039;s pretty awesome right ?

Praetorian Guards:  cease with that idiotic dribble ! ... KAPOW ! .. KABOOM ! .. KAZAM !]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Praetorian Guards:  You there, halt ! &#8230; are you an Ovechkin lover ?</p>
<p>husky2score:  hey man, like yeah ? &#8230; like, he&#8217;s pretty awesome right ?</p>
<p>Praetorian Guards:  cease with that idiotic dribble ! &#8230; KAPOW ! .. KABOOM ! .. KAZAM !</p>
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		<title>By: blomfeld</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[blomfeld]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 03:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Person A:  Who is this &quot;dhillca&quot; commenter and what&#039;s he trying to say to Blomfeld ?

Person B:  I&#039;m not sure friend, though I do suspect that his intentions are good ?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Person A:  Who is this &#8220;dhillca&#8221; commenter and what&#8217;s he trying to say to Blomfeld ?</p>
<p>Person B:  I&#8217;m not sure friend, though I do suspect that his intentions are good ?</p>
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		<title>By: blomfeld</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[blomfeld]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 03:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[@ricepilof - It sounds friend like you&#039;ve got a really good handle on things ... good show ! ... jolly good show !  :)   But no kidding about big man &quot;Ovi&quot; eh ?  Like you, I also hope that he&#039;s made to be feel utterly embarrassed by his own fans there in Washington when they drop the puck again.  What that bastard did with his callous threats was the equivalent of &quot;kicking your own&quot; square in the teeth !  The goof gets 10 million per year &quot;plus&quot; and he&#039;s the toast of the town there in DC, yet all that can just &quot;piss off&quot; as far as he&#039;s concerned, when the first sign of adversity appears ?  In many ways, his childish attitude is a direct facsimile of his play on the ice ... a lot of &quot;razamataz&quot; no doubt, but completely lacking in any meaningful substance, especially when it counts.  Anyway, with luck an &quot;issue&quot; will arise regarding his US work visa, compelling the clown to remain with his stupid Novosibirsk Reactor buddies !  We can only hope eh ?  :)]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@ricepilof &#8211; It sounds friend like you&#8217;ve got a really good handle on things &#8230; good show ! &#8230; jolly good show !  <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />    But no kidding about big man &#8220;Ovi&#8221; eh ?  Like you, I also hope that he&#8217;s made to be feel utterly embarrassed by his own fans there in Washington when they drop the puck again.  What that bastard did with his callous threats was the equivalent of &#8220;kicking your own&#8221; square in the teeth !  The goof gets 10 million per year &#8220;plus&#8221; and he&#8217;s the toast of the town there in DC, yet all that can just &#8220;piss off&#8221; as far as he&#8217;s concerned, when the first sign of adversity appears ?  In many ways, his childish attitude is a direct facsimile of his play on the ice &#8230; a lot of &#8220;razamataz&#8221; no doubt, but completely lacking in any meaningful substance, especially when it counts.  Anyway, with luck an &#8220;issue&#8221; will arise regarding his US work visa, compelling the clown to remain with his stupid Novosibirsk Reactor buddies !  We can only hope eh ?  <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: husky2score</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[husky2score]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 22:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I agree with islesjb now. As for blomfeld, I feel that Ovie said what he said in an effort to get a jumpstart on the NHL talks. He is one of the prime and most popular players of the NHL, and I can&#039;t think of any good reason why he would stay, other than that he is in his hometown. If Ovie is being serious, I have lost a little likeness in him and I am disappointed.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree with islesjb now. As for blomfeld, I feel that Ovie said what he said in an effort to get a jumpstart on the NHL talks. He is one of the prime and most popular players of the NHL, and I can&#8217;t think of any good reason why he would stay, other than that he is in his hometown. If Ovie is being serious, I have lost a little likeness in him and I am disappointed.</p>
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		<title>By: ricepilof</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ricepilof]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 22:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blomfeld: The odds of Ovi staying in Russia are worse than the Blue Jackets winning the cup this year. Each league honors each others contracts. That&#039;s a fact. Although, both you and I wish he&#039;d just stay put there and come crying back to the states taking out a full page ad in the Washington Post with the title: Sorry Folks]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Blomfeld: The odds of Ovi staying in Russia are worse than the Blue Jackets winning the cup this year. Each league honors each others contracts. That&#8217;s a fact. Although, both you and I wish he&#8217;d just stay put there and come crying back to the states taking out a full page ad in the Washington Post with the title: Sorry Folks</p>
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		<title>By: ewoods6</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ewoods6]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 22:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I REALLY want to be optimistic here, but i don&#039;t trust that POS troll doll and his greedy, fat-f*ckhead of a lawyer sidekick. 

Until one of the Fehrs gives me something to cheer about, I&#039;ll hold back for now.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I REALLY want to be optimistic here, but i don&#8217;t trust that POS troll doll and his greedy, fat-f*ckhead of a lawyer sidekick. </p>
<p>Until one of the Fehrs gives me something to cheer about, I&#8217;ll hold back for now.</p>
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		<title>By: dhillca</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[dhillca]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blomfeld
Your not supposed to quote yourself.
Its similar to saying &quot;Bloomfield no like this strike&quot; or &quot;Bloomfield feels like this has gone on long enough&quot; :-)]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Blomfeld<br />
Your not supposed to quote yourself.<br />
Its similar to saying &#8220;Bloomfield no like this strike&#8221; or &#8220;Bloomfield feels like this has gone on long enough&#8221; <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: davebabychreturns</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[davebabychreturns]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[blomfeld I don&#039;t know what&#039;s worse, your writing style or your reasoning. I guess at least you didn&#039;t embed some awful youtube video this time.. 

Luongo has a huge contract and is not going to return fair value in a trade but he is hardly the boat anchor some like to pretend he is. He&#039;s still a top goaltender in this league and he&#039;s done absolutely nothing to indicate that his continued presence in Vancouver will be a problem in the room.

The team that eventually acquires Luongo is going to be very happy with their investment, and like I said the Canucks won&#039;t get fair value but they should get a good player or a nice selection of picks and prospects back.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>blomfeld I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s worse, your writing style or your reasoning. I guess at least you didn&#8217;t embed some awful youtube video this time.. </p>
<p>Luongo has a huge contract and is not going to return fair value in a trade but he is hardly the boat anchor some like to pretend he is. He&#8217;s still a top goaltender in this league and he&#8217;s done absolutely nothing to indicate that his continued presence in Vancouver will be a problem in the room.</p>
<p>The team that eventually acquires Luongo is going to be very happy with their investment, and like I said the Canucks won&#8217;t get fair value but they should get a good player or a nice selection of picks and prospects back.</p>
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		<title>By: lostpuppysyndrome</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[lostpuppysyndrome]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, I tend to agree.  Even if they knocked off 6-10 games, they&#039;d eliminate 2-3 weeks, which is much more than it sounds.  I could watch hockey pretty much year round but I talk to enough people who&#039;d watch more hockey if it didn&#039;t run through the middle of June.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, I tend to agree.  Even if they knocked off 6-10 games, they&#8217;d eliminate 2-3 weeks, which is much more than it sounds.  I could watch hockey pretty much year round but I talk to enough people who&#8217;d watch more hockey if it didn&#8217;t run through the middle of June.</p>
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		<title>By: nothanksimdriving123</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[nothanksimdriving123]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;m sure many will disagree, but IMHO one of the NHL&#039;s problems in recent years has been the 82 game season followed by 2 months of playoffs, which is absurdly grueling and does not improve the caliber of play in the games and is probably a factor in some injuries. No repeat Cup champs in several years. Many reasons why, but this seems likely to be one of them.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m sure many will disagree, but IMHO one of the NHL&#8217;s problems in recent years has been the 82 game season followed by 2 months of playoffs, which is absurdly grueling and does not improve the caliber of play in the games and is probably a factor in some injuries. No repeat Cup champs in several years. Many reasons why, but this seems likely to be one of them.</p>
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		<title>By: pariseinminnesotabichez</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[pariseinminnesotabichez]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey dumb asses on the top, how about u be happy wer actually getting a season, jesus!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey dumb asses on the top, how about u be happy wer actually getting a season, jesus!</p>
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		<title>By: blomfeld</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[blomfeld]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ain&#039;t gonna happen pal ...

You do know that Ovechkin has threatened to stay in the KHL, right ? ... so given the fact that he&#039;s a &quot;man of his word&quot; and a &quot;pillar of integrity&quot; among other things, we&#039;ve therefore probably seen the last of him ... sad but true.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ain&#8217;t gonna happen pal &#8230;</p>
<p>You do know that Ovechkin has threatened to stay in the KHL, right ? &#8230; so given the fact that he&#8217;s a &#8220;man of his word&#8221; and a &#8220;pillar of integrity&#8221; among other things, we&#8217;ve therefore probably seen the last of him &#8230; sad but true.</p>
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		<title>By: islesjb</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[islesjb]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;m sure they&#039;ll be heading to the airport to make the first plane back. Not to knock the KHL but there&#039;s no comparison with the NHL. In addition to offering fatter paychecks, the all around experience is superior in terms of facilities, travel and overall living conditions. 

These guys lives for the most part are in USA/Canada. They&#039;ll be back with bells on. I don&#039;t buy Ovechkin&#039;s BS for a second that he&#039;s going to remain in Russia all year. 

Let&#039;s make a deal and get the pucks dropping by Nov 2nd!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll be heading to the airport to make the first plane back. Not to knock the KHL but there&#8217;s no comparison with the NHL. In addition to offering fatter paychecks, the all around experience is superior in terms of facilities, travel and overall living conditions. </p>
<p>These guys lives for the most part are in USA/Canada. They&#8217;ll be back with bells on. I don&#8217;t buy Ovechkin&#8217;s BS for a second that he&#8217;s going to remain in Russia all year. </p>
<p>Let&#8217;s make a deal and get the pucks dropping by Nov 2nd!</p>
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		<title>By: blomfeld</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[blomfeld]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;a very well-thought plan&quot; eh ? ...

&quot;..........................................................&quot;  :)]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;a very well-thought plan&#8221; eh ? &#8230;</p>
<p>&#8220;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8221;  <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: blomfeld</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[blomfeld]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;AHEM&quot;  ...

That&#039;s all fine and dandy there Babych, but you are forgetting about one slight detail ... a &quot;46 million&quot; dollar detail to be exact !  Now I &quot;know the deal&quot; myself, living here &quot;not but a brisk walk&quot; from Rogers Arena ... and I do have tremendous respect for the Sedin brothers.  Nonetheless, attempts by you Canuckle people to &quot;gloss over&quot; the massive elephant in the room that is Bobby Loo, makes about as much sense as a couple of cooks in the Titanic&#039;s kitchen arguing about what&#039;s going to be on the evening menu, an hour &quot;after&quot; hitting the iceberg !  Once this CBA get&#039;s signed (which it will be shortly) then you people have got to seriously get cracking a find a way to get this clown back to Florida asap !  If not, then I suspect it&#039;ll be the Wild having the last laugh at you guys ?  :)]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;AHEM&#8221;  &#8230;</p>
<p>That&#8217;s all fine and dandy there Babych, but you are forgetting about one slight detail &#8230; a &#8220;46 million&#8221; dollar detail to be exact !  Now I &#8220;know the deal&#8221; myself, living here &#8220;not but a brisk walk&#8221; from Rogers Arena &#8230; and I do have tremendous respect for the Sedin brothers.  Nonetheless, attempts by you Canuckle people to &#8220;gloss over&#8221; the massive elephant in the room that is Bobby Loo, makes about as much sense as a couple of cooks in the Titanic&#8217;s kitchen arguing about what&#8217;s going to be on the evening menu, an hour &#8220;after&#8221; hitting the iceberg !  Once this CBA get&#8217;s signed (which it will be shortly) then you people have got to seriously get cracking a find a way to get this clown back to Florida asap !  If not, then I suspect it&#8217;ll be the Wild having the last laugh at you guys ?  <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: lostpuppysyndrome</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Realignment won&#039;t happen until the Phoenix situation gets settled.  Don&#039;t worry, the Jets will be kicking the Wild&#039;s keester 6 times a year before you know it ;)]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Realignment won&#8217;t happen until the Phoenix situation gets settled.  Don&#8217;t worry, the Jets will be kicking the Wild&#8217;s keester 6 times a year before you know it <img src='http://s1.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: lostpuppysyndrome</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[lostpuppysyndrome]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#039;s what I thought too, but judging by Bettman&#039;s comment about playing &quot;full playoffs as we normally do and be done before the end of June,&quot; it sounds to me like they may not compress anything and simply run a regular schedule that just happens to end later.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s what I thought too, but judging by Bettman&#8217;s comment about playing &#8220;full playoffs as we normally do and be done before the end of June,&#8221; it sounds to me like they may not compress anything and simply run a regular schedule that just happens to end later.</p>
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		<title>By: davebabychreturns</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[davebabychreturns]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of course they will. A lot of guys are being compensated not much more than enough to insure their NHL deals, no way do most of them stick around all year for peanuts when the best league in the world (where they have a vastly more lucrative contract) starts up.

Maybe it&#039;ll be different for the Russians in the KHL but I would bet most of them head back.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Of course they will. A lot of guys are being compensated not much more than enough to insure their NHL deals, no way do most of them stick around all year for peanuts when the best league in the world (where they have a vastly more lucrative contract) starts up.</p>
<p>Maybe it&#8217;ll be different for the Russians in the KHL but I would bet most of them head back.</p>
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		<title>By: davebabychreturns</title>
		<link>http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/10/16/bettman-we-very-much-want-to-preserve-a-full-82-game-season/comment-page-1/#comment-106238</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[davebabychreturns]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(God is it ever nice to be actually talking about hockey again)]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(God is it ever nice to be actually talking about hockey again)</p>
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		<title>By: davebabychreturns</title>
		<link>http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/10/16/bettman-we-very-much-want-to-preserve-a-full-82-game-season/comment-page-1/#comment-106237</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[davebabychreturns]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well Parise and Suter will help the Wild be much more competitive this year, but I don&#039;t think either player is going to force them to change their game all that much (as a matter of fact I think going out and acquiring a former Predator and Devil is a great move in the Wild want to keep their philosophy intact.. and why wouldn&#039;t they, on balance it&#039;s worked well for them). 

As for the Canucks, I&#039;m not worried. The Sedins are extremely fit and other than them the only core player over 30 is in the process of being replaced by a younger player. I think the team&#039;s organizational depth is underrated and while there&#039;s no future superstars it should help the team remain competitive. If they can keep adding a core player here and there through UFA and pull off maybe two or three good trades over the next few years they should be able to prolong their &#039;window&#039; indefinitely.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well Parise and Suter will help the Wild be much more competitive this year, but I don&#8217;t think either player is going to force them to change their game all that much (as a matter of fact I think going out and acquiring a former Predator and Devil is a great move in the Wild want to keep their philosophy intact.. and why wouldn&#8217;t they, on balance it&#8217;s worked well for them). </p>
<p>As for the Canucks, I&#8217;m not worried. The Sedins are extremely fit and other than them the only core player over 30 is in the process of being replaced by a younger player. I think the team&#8217;s organizational depth is underrated and while there&#8217;s no future superstars it should help the team remain competitive. If they can keep adding a core player here and there through UFA and pull off maybe two or three good trades over the next few years they should be able to prolong their &#8216;window&#8217; indefinitely.</p>
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		<title>By: husky2score</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[husky2score]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is great that a deal appears to be close and reasonably acceptable BUT... Most All Stars are playing in other countries. Will they want to comeback? If not, what will happen them?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is great that a deal appears to be close and reasonably acceptable BUT&#8230; Most All Stars are playing in other countries. Will they want to comeback? If not, what will happen them?</p>
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		<title>By: lsxphotog</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So far, it appears this is a very well-thought plan that blends the cancelled/postponed games into the schedule.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So far, it appears this is a very well-thought plan that blends the cancelled/postponed games into the schedule.</p>
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		<title>By: mcbratz1187</title>
		<link>http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/10/16/bettman-we-very-much-want-to-preserve-a-full-82-game-season/comment-page-1/#comment-106232</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[mcbratz1187]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bet there won&#039;t be any...]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bet there won&#8217;t be any&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: therealjr</title>
		<link>http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/10/16/bettman-we-very-much-want-to-preserve-a-full-82-game-season/comment-page-1/#comment-106231</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[therealjr]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;m no Wild fan, but I would think anyone that has legitimate interest in hockey would recall they they signed Parise and Suter and have a couple highly rated young players ready to contribute. 

I&#039;d be more worried about the expiration date on that Canucks window, myself.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m no Wild fan, but I would think anyone that has legitimate interest in hockey would recall they they signed Parise and Suter and have a couple highly rated young players ready to contribute. </p>
<p>I&#8217;d be more worried about the expiration date on that Canucks window, myself.</p>
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		<title>By: dbarnes79</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[dbarnes79]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Both sides are so dumb. Why didn&#039;t they just start at 50/50 two months ago?  We all pretty much knew it would come down to that figure or somewhere close to that.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Both sides are so dumb. Why didn&#8217;t they just start at 50/50 two months ago?  We all pretty much knew it would come down to that figure or somewhere close to that.</p>
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		<title>By: jessejames182</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jessejames182]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I guess I&#039;m excited that hockey could be coming back sooner rather than never. But a lot of damage has already been done from my perspective. The players that received the most awards took off when things got though to take some minor league player&#039;s job just so they could stay in shape until they could come back and take their inflated salaries. It&#039;ll take a while before I can believe either side cares much at all.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I guess I&#8217;m excited that hockey could be coming back sooner rather than never. But a lot of damage has already been done from my perspective. The players that received the most awards took off when things got though to take some minor league player&#8217;s job just so they could stay in shape until they could come back and take their inflated salaries. It&#8217;ll take a while before I can believe either side cares much at all.</p>
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		<title>By: ryan02190</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ryan02190]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There would be one extra game every five weeks.  

Puh-leeze]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There would be one extra game every five weeks.  </p>
<p>Puh-leeze</p>
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		<title>By: aventador12</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[aventador12]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 18:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#039;s going to be a lot of back-to-back-to-back games. Definitely gonna be a test to all players.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There&#8217;s going to be a lot of back-to-back-to-back games. Definitely gonna be a test to all players.</p>
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