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IS "SENATOR" BRYDEN NOT A POPULAR CANDIDATE WITH PARTNERS?

          The Senators ownership board is scheduled to meet
     tomorrow, with many owners "angry that despite putting in the
     cash, they've seen no accounting for ages," according to
     Stuart McCarthy of the OTTAWA SUN.  Majority Owner Rod
     Bryden, who owns 80% of the team, is the only partner who has
     seen financial statements for FY '96 or '97, and therefore
     none of the others are "in any position to intelligently
     discuss the finances."  Bryden's partners, who once had a 48%
     stake in the club, now share "somewhere between" 10-20%. 
     Bryden has twice told partners to "pony up" more money or he
     would, "thereby increasing his majority."  He has also raised
     the "possibility of moving" the Senators to Portland, OR. 
     McCarthy writes that the minority partners "[e]xpect more of
     the same tomorrow -- and then some."  Partner Brian McGarry:
     "If anyone steps up and buys us out that wouldn't surprise me
     --in fact, I'm expecting it."  Bryden did not comment
     yesterday, but McCarthy called tomorrow's meeting "a real day
     of reckoning ... depending on how much red ink is spilled, it
     could also bring us one step closer to the end of the road
     for the Senators calling Ottawa home" (OTTAWA SUN, 12/17).
     

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