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Article: Good sports: Colorado's other hockey teams refuse to exploit the NHL lockout.(sports biz)(National Hockey League)
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- November 1, 2004
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YOU CALL THIS A SPORT OF TOUGH GUYS? A GAME FOR enforcers? Recreation for puck-marked madmen? Then explain this: How come the people who run the game of hockey seem to be so confoundingly civil?
No, not those people. Not Gary Bettman or the suits who own the National Hockey League. We're talking minor leagues and college teams that are taking the ice this season while the big boys leave it to their attorneys to work out a few labor sore points.
You'd think the hockey subordinates would be predatory enough to smell some blood here. The NHL, which regularly soaks fans for a couple hundred bucks to attend a single game, is likely to be taking a hiatus this ...