Wayne Gretzky tells young Canadian players to enjoy the big game
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TORONTO (CP) - Wayne Gretzky had a message for the younger members of Team Canada on the eve of the biggest game of their careers.
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Jaromir Jagr cracked himself up when reciting the perfect analogy for goals by hard-hitters Colton Orr and Ryan Hollweg. "I would have compared it to when a big fat guy scores a touchdown in football," the New York Rangers' captain said. "Everyone loves it. I want to see a big guy dancing. Don't tell them. They're going to want to beat me up now."
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - Prime Minister Paul Martin said Friday he believes the National Hockey League and its players will eventually overcome their acrimonious labour impasse.
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Canada&#39;s TV sports leader has brought its biggest ever World Juniors production crew to Grand Forks with hopes of drawing a record audience, and network bosses think they&#39;ve got a good chance of achieving their goals.
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By George Sipple, Detroit Free Press  Feb. 13--Red Wings defenseman Chris Chelios spent last Friday night the same way so many other parents start their weekends: He watched one of his sons participate in a sporting event.
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You might think Bruin Glen Murray would like the extra quarter-inch curve on his stick.
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Attendance is up and some players with NHL experience welcome the playing time in the minors. Ten of the American Hockey League&#39;s top 13 scorers were on NHL rosters a year ago.
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PHOENIX -- Phoenix managing partner Wayne Gretzky, asked if he was interested in coaching the Coyotes, put the idea on the back burner.
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ST. PAUL, MINN.âBefore their huge game here last night âand even before they&#39;d played their first NHL games - Keith Tkachuk, Mike Modano and Bill Guerin were brothers in arms.
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ATHENS -- Adam van Koeverden has a message for his fellow Canadian athletes -- quit whining about circumstances you can&#39;t control. &quot;You can&#39;t fall into a corner and cry and say the Canadian sports system has let me down. You have to do things for ...
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Celebration replaced trepidation inside a Manhattan club. The NHL hosted a big bash this week, kicking off a new season free of lockout clouds, labor unrest and questions about the league's viability.
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PITTSBURGH -- Maxime Talbot loves playing hockey and, perhaps even more, talking about it. The enjoyment he gets from playing the sport is difficult to disguise.
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Wayne Gretzky is an ice hockey god to millions of Canadians but even the &quot;Great One&quot; is unable to offer a solution to the labor dispute now threatening to wipe out the entire NHL season.
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Ice hockey legend Wayne Gretzky has admitted he has no solution to offer which might help end the current NHL lockout. The &#39;Great One&#39;, now part-owner of the Phoenix Coyotes, and says he can see both sides of the dispute between team owners and players.
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ANAHEIM, California  - NHL commissioner Gary Bettman conceded the league faces big challenges in gaining the major network television exposure it covets in the United States but that new technology will help attract new fans.
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With the final sands of the National  Hockey League's season slipping through the hourglass due to a  labor dispute, many players are desperately turning to far  flung regions to salvage some playing time.
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Don&#39;t tell me this is part of sports, life or any kind of world I want to be in. Don&#39;t try to justify it, pick sides or celebrate it like some video-game adrenaline rush.