Toronto Mike

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Hopes Up

The media is full of reports that there is a chance that 2004-05 regular season and playoffs could be saved.  In fact, there is some speculation that a deal will be struck this weekend. Great, my hopes are up once more.  I was just coming to grips with the reality
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Final Thoughts

This will be my final entry on this subject for a while. I wish the Raptors were better.  In a perfect world the Raptors would be playoff bound and we'd have playoff games at the ACC this spring.  I'll be watching the b-ball, unfortunately I'll be watching bad b-ball.I
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Repugnant Bettman

While I slept last night, the NHLPA agreed to accept a salary cap.  This was a most significant concession on their part.   The NHL offered to remove its demand for a link between league revenues and player costs, a most significant concession on their part.  With this glorious, unexpected progress
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4:51

Gary Bettman will follow my lead any day now and cancel the 2004-2005 NHL season.  This entry isn't about that but about a Maple Leaf memory I can't erase from my psyche, no matter how hard I try. In March 2003, Pat Quinn traded for Doug Gilmour at the deadline.
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Free Stanley

Unwilling to wait for it to become official, I cancelled the 2004/2005 NHL season back on Christmas Eve.  I'm glad I did as its given me a period of time to accept what I cannot control.  Any day now Gary Bettman will call a press conference and explain to
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