[ESPN NHL Guru] 2006 Olympic hockey squeezed into 12 days

ArticleBot · 10-05-2004, 01:38 PM

Plan minimizes disruption to NHL seasonGENEVA, Switzerland -- Defending gold medalist Canada will
play Italy to open the 2006 Turin Olympics hockey tournament. The 12-team event will have a 12-day schedule so the NHL season
-- if there is one -- isn't interrupted for too long, International
Ice Hockey Federation president Rene Fasel said Tuesday. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman told Fasel the league's labor
situation would have to be settled by January if its players were
going to compete in Turin. Bettman...

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ArticleBot Member Joined: Jul 2001 Posts: 991 TTP Friends: (0)	[ESPN NHL Guru] 2006 Olympic hockey squeezed into 12 days Plan minimizes disruption to NHL seasonGENEVA, Switzerland -- Defending gold medalist Canada will play Italy to open the 2006 Turin Olympics hockey tournament. The 12-team event will have a 12-day schedule so the NHL season -- if there is one -- isn't interrupted for too long, International Ice Hockey Federation president Rene Fasel said Tuesday. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman told Fasel the league's labor situation would have to be settled by January if its players were going to compete in Turin. Bettman... http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/news/s...C-DT9705204233 __________________ Love the Irish

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