YASHIN FORCED TO PAY NHL'S LEGAL FEES OVER FAILED APPEAL

          Ontario Court Justice Douglas Cunningham has ruled that
     Senators C Alexei Yashin must pay C$27,649.39 in legal fees
     incurred by the NHL when Yashin attempted to have a ruling
     by an independent arbitrator overturned in an Ottawa
     courtroom last month, according to Bruce Garrioch of the
     OTTAWA SUN.  The NHL was originally seeking C$46,000 from
     Yashin for the court session.  Yashin's agent Mark Gandler
     said he was "thoroughly disgusted" by the ruling.  Gandler:
     "This ruling by the judges on legal fees just shows that
     he's not willing to let [the Yashin case] go and the NHL
     won't just let it go.  I think everybody should just let it
     go" (OTTAWA SUN, 10/26).  In Toronto, Lance Hornby writes
     the cost of the ruling is "not steep but the ruling is
     ominous for Yashin's chances of avoiding paying" US$930,000
     to Senators Chair Rod Bryden and the NHL, who are suing for
     damages from his holdout (TORONTO SUN, 10/26).