NHL gets it right with tributes
The NHL does a lot of things that make you question whether it's an international professional sports league or a fantasy football league run by a guy who does things to benefit his friends.
Whether it's selective enforcement of CBA rules—arbitrarily deciding which cap-circumventing contracts are punished because they circumvent the cap, retracting punishments for circumventing the cap despite none of the facts of the case changing, allowing a player still under contract with a team to work in the front office—paying to keep destitute teams afloat while allowing others to relocate or having a huckster purchase a franchise despite having no money, the NHL does a lot of things that make you wonder how it stays afloat.
Say what you want about the NHL's Old Boys Network, but the NHL also showed last week why that network can also work as a community that's unrivaled by any other sports league.
In the wake of the separate incidents in Canada that took the lives of two soldiers, Cpl. Nathan Cirillo in the shootings and Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent in a hit-a ...
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