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NHLPA Search Committee With An Infusion Of Youth
by Paul on 12/18/09 at 08:23 AM ET
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from Eric Duhatschek of the Globe and Mail,
Nice to see that one of the NHL’s rising young stars, the Anaheim Ducks’ Ryan Getzlaf, agreed to join the search committee for the union’s next executive director. In recent years, they have mostly ceded that role to their more experienced colleagues. The next step will be to involve one of the Russian elites in the process – someone such as the Atlanta Thrashers’ Ilya Kovalchuk, a smart young athlete with a good-enough command of the English language to take on that responsibility. And it wouldn’t hurt to see Sidney Crosby volunteer for a position either, especially if the next incarnation of the union wants to be taken seriously by commissioner Gary Bettman and his ownership gang …
more hockey talk from Eric…
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