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BETTMAN, TO NHL OWNERS: ALL TOGETHER NOW, ALL TOGETHER NOW

          It has been a quiet NHL off-season in big-money free
     agent player signings, as NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman
     "finally managed to get his message across to NHL ownership
     and management that they were headed in a dangerous
     direction," according to ESPN.com's Al Morganti.  Bettman
     "hit the owners and general managers upside the head and
     knocked some sense into them about controlling payroll." 
     Canucks GM Brian Burke: "For the first time in a long time,
     I really see some hope that we won't be headed for a
     [financial] disaster before the end [of the CBA in 2004]." 
     Burke: "This is an area where Gary does not get nearly the
     credit from owners and GMs that he should.  It was all done
     smoothly, and it was done behind the scenes. ... Now, for
     the first time in a long time, I have hope that we can live
     in some kind of [fiscal] sanity."  Burke, on "collusion":
     "Absolutely no way. ... Collusion?  I think we have proven
     in the past we would be incapable of collusion" (ESPN.com,
     9/10).  In Miami, David Neal: "Collusion?  Or collective
     good sense.  Both make sense."  More Neal: "Professional
     sports leagues are almost collusive by nature."  Neal wrote
     that Bettman is "one of the few people who constantly has
     had a realistic view of where this league is and what it
     needs" (MIAMI HERALD, 9/12).  In Montreal, Jack Todd writes
     that if the Senators "hold firm," it "looks like hockey is
     absolutely united against" Senators' hold-out Alexei Yashin
     and agent Mark Gandler.  Todd writes that with the exception
     of the "irresponsible" Rangers, NHL "GMs have held the line
     on idiotic contracts" (Montreal GAZETTE, 9/13).

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