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Ominous clouds hovering; financial woes, labor strife loom in next 18 months.(Chicago Tribune)
Byline: Bob Foltman
SUNRISE, Fla. _ This is supposed to be a weekend to celebrate hockey.
This is supposed to be a time to marvel at Sergei Fedorov's effortless skating ability, at Paul Kariya's breath-taking explosiveness, to wonder if it's Patrick Roy's last hurrah.
This is supposed to be the weekend to see the future of the sport in the all-around excellence of Joe Thornton, Dany Heatley and Marian Gaborik and to wonder how good they will be, whether they'll measure up to the icons of the Wayne Gretzky-Mario Lemieux era.
While hockey fans sit and watch Sunday's NHL All-Star Game, they will marvel at the talent, but they'll also be pondering other things.
Storm clouds have gathered on the NHL's horizon, and the countdown to labor Armageddon may have begun. The current collective bargaining agreement doesn't expire until September 2004, but labor talk has already dominated this season.
"I'm not going to engage in a public debate over what we need right now," NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said Saturday. "The collective-bargaining agreement has another year and a half to run, and obviously, what we do is vitally important. But I don't think we need to elevate it at this point to a full-blown distraction."
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