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Could Paul Kelly Return
by Paul on 09/17/09 at 12:47 PM ET
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from Camwest News Service via the National Post,
Chris Chelios is planning to talk with other players about the possibility of bringing back Paul Kelly as executive director of the National Hockey League Players’ Association, according to a report on the website of a Montreal radio station.
According to the CKAC report, Chelios said he was misinformed when he was told Kelly was in a conflict of interest with Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux - two former players who have stakes in NHL teams. CKAC reports that perceived conflict led to Kelly’s downfall. Chelios, currently a free agent, has a long history with the union.
I am all for that, how about you?
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Surely a key question is why Paul Kelly would want to work with/for these people again. By all accounts--except for the small cabal who fired him in the dead of night--Kelly is an admirable fellow, who conducts himself professionally.
How do you cheerfully return to work with and for people you know don’t trust you? People who were so desperate to be rid of you that they stabbed you in the back at 3 AM?
It’s kind of hard to imagine.
Posted by Diplomatica on 09/17/09 at 12:16 PM ET
“executive director of the National Hockey League Players’ Association”
What is the difference between this and the job he had? He was the boss of the union? What was the proper name of it?
Posted by Nathan from BC on 09/17/09 at 12:29 PM ET
Nathan, that was his job. The article is about him returning to his same job at the union (the player’s union’s name is the National Hockey League Players Association).
Posted by NHLJeff from Boston, MA on 09/17/09 at 12:40 PM ET
No way does Paul Kelly go back to work for these idiots.
If he did, he must demand the ouster of Ian Penney, who just got a 5 year contract, Buz Hargrove (ombudsman), Ron Pink (the Halifax lawyer who heads the advisory board and covets the CEO job), Eric Lindors (former ombudsman) and all the rest of the thugs.
Posted by w2j2 on 09/17/09 at 12:54 PM ET
According to the CKAC report, Chelios said he was misinformed when he was told Kelly was in a conflict of interest with Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux - two former players who have stakes in NHL teams. CKAC reports that perceived conflict led to Kelly’s downfall.
I thought it was a squabble over player privacy?
So in other words, they canned him because he was “in the way”, since nobody can seem to agree why they gave him the boot in the first place…
Or maybe they just realized they took the apple from the snake.
Posted by Primis on 09/17/09 at 08:42 PM ET
Something’s fishy.
Posted by Hippy Dave from San Francisco by way of Detroit on 09/18/09 at 12:54 AM ET
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Posted by Matt Fry from Winnipeg on 09/17/09 at 11:52 AM ET