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          A NEW LEAF: The Maple Leafs "agreed to pay" the final
     three years of Dmitri Khristich's US$10.3M contract and the
     option on the fourth, which "averages" $100,000 more per
     season than the $2.8M the Bruins declined to pay him in
     arbitration (NATIONAL POST, 10/22).  In Toronto, David
     Shoalts notes that Khristich will be paid almost $400,000 a
     year less this year in the new deal than he would if he
     accepted the arbitration ruling (GLOBE & MAIL, 10/22).  But
     in Calgary, Eric Francis writes that the Bruins "did what
     they could" to help teams like the Flames "survive" by
     holding firm on Khristich's salary demands, but yesterday
     the Maple Leafs "did what they could to help kill them" with
     the signing of Khristich.  Francis: "So much for the
     solidarity [Maple Leafs President Ken] Dryden preached at a
     recent summit where all six Canadian clubs discussed ways to
     save hockey north of the border" (CALGARY SUN, 10/22). 
          TESTING, TESTING, ONE, TWO, THREE: In N.Y., Peter
     Vecsey wonders how the media "discovered" six players
     reportedly tested positive for marijuana during the NBA's
     drug-testing period in training camp.  Vecsey: "Far be it
     from me to accuse [NBPA Exec Dir] Billy Hunter of being the
     source. ... for the express purpose of turning a crime into
     a persecution, hoping to have collected evidence suppressed,
     or, at the very least, transform the culprits into
     sympathetic victims" (N.Y. POST, 10/22).  In Toronto, Craig
     Daniels writes the media leak is "precisely what the league
     and the union signed up for when they opened the issue
     during negotiations.  What is unfathomable is why either
     side bothered. ... Marijuana use widely is accepted as
     something other than the depraved habit of the
     lunatic/criminal fringe" (TORONTO SUN, 10/22).  NBC's Jay
     Leno said the fact that NBA players have to provide urine
     samples to the league is "bad news for the Clippers.  Not
     one of 'em yet has been able to hit the cup" (NBC, 10/21). 

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