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Linden vs Chelios
by Alanah McGinley on 10/29/07 at 12:47 AM ET
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From Iain Macintyre at the Vancouver Sun,
Eleven years ago, when the Vancouver Canucks beat the Chicago Blackhawks 2-1 in overtime, Trevor Linden got into Chris Chelios’s face after the winning goal and the pair tussled.
Chelios threw the first punch and, after the players were separated, accused Linden of covering up and refusing to fight. And that was the high point of their relationship. It has devolved the last two years as Chelios leads his crusade for justice within a National Hockey League Players’ Association that Linden, as the union’s former president, led through a labour war that scuttled the 2004-05 season.
Sunday, Linden seemed ready for the fight.
“It’s easy to pile on,” Linden said before facing Chelios and the Detroit Red Wings Sunday night at GM Place. “I will say this: I’m extremely proud of the decisions the [NHLPA] executive committee made. I think we made, in very difficult times, good decisions for the players.”
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I’m not surprised that Linden is still proud of what he did. He feels that the CBA he and Ted Saskin negotiated was in the best interests of the NHLPA’s membership and the game, and he believes that they had every right to both determine what kind of CBA the players would agree to play under and who would lead the NHLPA.
I don’t expect him to change his tune about the NHLPA’s dissidents being nothing more than conspiracy theorists with shoddy evidence, either.
Chelios has other opinions, and both Chelios and Linden are equally committed to what they believe to be true. As to what side the NHL fan should take, that’s up to each individual.
Posted by George James Malik from South Lyon, MI on 10/29/07 at 01:39 AM ET