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| | For NHL, Seasons on the Rink (washingtonpost.com) |
 | | That's why NHL owners are determined to negotiate a hard salary cap that could dramatically rein in free spending by richer clubs such as the New York Rangers and the Detroit Red Wings. |
 | | This time, if predictions from both sides are correct, the impasse could be far longer, endangering not only one season but, much like the 1994-95 major league baseball labor strife, the start of another. |
 | | The NHL's problem is, well, that it doesn't have only one problem, beginning with an unbalanced economy in which many teams say they are losing money at the same time players are averaging $1.8 million in salary. |
| www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A23657-2004Jun7.html (488 words) |
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