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The NHL and NHLPA have hammered out an interesting deal. In exchange for Ilya Kovalchuk's contract, along with all previous contracts such as Marian Hossa's being accepted the NHLPA has agreed to amend the CBA.

The new rules state that if a player is older than 40 years old when a long-term (five years or longer) contract expires, the player's average salary until he is 40 is the cap hit until he is 40. After that, the salary he gets every year is the cap hit.

The second thing they said is that before the player turns 40 if he gets paid less than a million dollars in any year in a long term contract it will count as one million dollars. However, this will

not apply retroactively to any current contracts such as Kovalchuk, Henrik Zetterberg, or anyone else signed long term. So what is the problem I have? The main problem for me is that it does not count retroactively. I understand this is a concession given by the NHL as part of the negotiations, but that does not mean it is fair. If these deals must end, they have to apply it to everyone the same way, regardless of when they signed their contract. Now this opens up a floodgate when the next CBA is negotiated. Since the precedent has been set that you can waive rules for players if they signed a contract before a certain date, the new CBA can have a clause where teams that signed...(Read Full Article)

Luke Schenn, the future of the Toronto Maple Leafs' defense, had a few very important words for Nazem Kadri."There's lot of expectations," Schenn told Mike Ulmer of mapleleafs.nhl.com, "but the minute you start listening to everyone outside the rink, people tell you how good you are and you forget what got you here."In other words, Kadri don't get too caught up in the hype.Two seasons ago, Luke Schenn was the young stud defenceman for the Leafs. Often one of the few brights spots on the team, Schenn provided Leafs Nation hope for the future.A season removed from his rookie year, and Schenn is the new whipping boy of Leafs Nation. After a slow start to the season, Schenn was scratched for three games.

Schenn's play continued on inconsistently for a few months until—what will soon be known as the renaissance, Brian Burke made two blockbuster moves.January 31 of 2010, Brian Burke traded Ian White, Jamal Mayers, Matt Stajan, Nik Hagman to the Calgary Flames and Vesa Toskala and Jason Blake to the Anaheim Ducks. The Leafs received their new captain, Dion Phaneuf, a great penalty killer in Fredrick Sjostrom, and monster defensive prospect Keith Aulie from the Flames, and Conn Smythe Winner Jean-Sebastien Giguere from the Ducks.From this date on, Schenn's play improved under a new blueline presence, Phaneuf. Schenn finished strong enough to improve in goals going from two goals the previous season to five last season. Schenn finished with three more points and...(Read Full Article)

Welcome to the first edition of Baby Penguins Banter for the month of September! The American Hockey League rolled out their regular season schedule last week. This edition will be devoted to looking at some of the most notable games on the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins 2010-2011 season schedule. Mark your calendar to follow the Baby Penguins on these dates:   October 9, 2010: Penguins vs. Hershey Bears Saturday, October 9 marks the Penguins home opener against the Hershey Bears. The Bears are the AHL affiliate of the Washington Capitals and are the defending two-time Calder Cup champions. The Penguins have put up some remarkable efforts against Hershey in the regular season (they even won a game 5-0 this past February) but have struggled against them in the playoffs. Both

teams already have a drastically different look from last season. Last year, the Penguins were mostly made up of players with limited professional experience. Now, those players are another year older and wiser and know a little more about what Hershey brings to the table. Hershey, who has been dominant for the last two AHL seasons, was depleted over the summer. The Bears’ most significant loss was offensive powerhouse Alexandre Giroux, who signed with the Edmonton Oilers organization. They also lost Kyle Wilson (to Columbus), Chris Bourque (to Europe), and Greg Amadio (to Detroit). The Penguins will need to win this game to leave a good impression on their fanbase, who were largely dissatisfied with the 2009-2010 season. They will also have to show the Bears...(Read Full Article)

According to SNY Rangers Blog and icethetics.info, the New York Rangers' new alternate jersey design has been revealed. Here is the leak coming straight from icethetics: "Icethetics has discovered that the Rangers will wear a navy blue third jersey, with NEW YORK emblazoned in red, diagonal text down the front. However, it's not the typeface we're used to seeing on the Rangers. It's more of a "retro" font, if you will—straight (not italic) with a vintage white stroke on the letters. In addition, there is a thick red stripe that wraps around the sleeves and bottom of the jersey, bordered in thinner vintage white stripes. The collar is vintage white with vintage white laces and the little Reebok triangle is red." Sounds like it will look very nice,

and it will fit into the Rangers' 85th Anniversary. The complete jersey will be revealed in mid-November.Read more NHL news on BleacherReport.com...(Read Full Article)

RaiderPower.com's Travis Cram and Josh Harvey of PonyStampede.com give their three keys to the SMU-Texas Tech game.

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The purpose of these college football threads and articles are to help those who don't know a ton about the sport to stay informed throughout the year up until draft time. There are several people on this site, and others from other SBNation sites, that love to talk about college football. If you consider youself not interested, or not understanding why it's being discussed on a Niners related website then there are plenty of other great articles and fanposts on the site to focus on relative to the 49ers. There have already been some really intriguing games and matchups. College Football kicked off this past Thursday and will continue on in to Monday. So there is still plenty of action left this week with a majority of it

happening this morning and continuing on in to the evening. I am going to start the body of the article with a few important recaps and then get in to the rest of the remaining schedule discussing a few of the more important matchups. If you didn't get a chance to see it, here is the College Football Top 25 Preview Article I posted on Wednesday before things hit full-swing. Feel free to post comments about what games mean the most to you and of course just general comments about any game that is on throughout the course of the day. Hit the continue button below to get the rest... Recapping Thursday and Friday's games: The most interesting game from Thursday was probably the upset of the #15 Ranked...(Read Full Article)

The Texas Tech Red Raiders will open the 2010 season at home against the SMU Mustangs on Sunday, as college football continues through Labor Day Weekend with the NFL not starting till next week. The last time these two teams met was in 2008, when the Red Raiders beat up on the Mustangs 43-7. Texas Tech finished the 2009 season 9-4, including a nice win over Michigan State in the Alamo Bowl. The Red Raiders will have a much different look to them this season, as they bring in Tommy Tuberville to take over for Mike Leach, who was let go at the end of last season due to player misconduct. Texas Tech does have 14 starters back this season, but figure to be slow out

of the gates having to learn new systems on both sides of the ball. The Mustangs also ended the 2009 season on a good note, as they beat Nevada 45-10 in the Hawaii Bowl to push their overall record to 8-5. The Mustangs have 15 starters back, and will look to compete with Houston for the top spot in the Conference USA West. If you are interested in doing some college football betting on the game this Sunday, Sports Interaction has the Red Raiders 13.5 point favorites over the Mustangs with the total currently sitting at 60.5 points. It is hard telling just what the Red Raiders offense will look like without Leach running the show, but there is no question that they still have the talent to...(Read Full Article)

Week one of the RCT Community picks are finalized and we ended up getting 31 votes total.  Not too bad for week 1 and hopefully as the season goes along those numbers will pick up each week.  I'm going to keep the results here short and sweet, especially this week because there is a pretty clear favorite in all but two games.  Throughout the season  I will keep track of the community's record so we can brag about our expertise at the end of the season.   The games will be broken down into three categories.  Category one will be the locks and I'll put any team that gets 85% of more of the vote into this group.  Category two will be the "pretty confident" group

and this category will be games that have any from 60% to 84% of the vote for one team.  The third category will be the "toss up" group, these games will have the votes split from 40% to 59% for one team.  Time for the results after the jump! Locks Kansas over North Dakota State:  The Jayhawks ran away with the vote and pitched a shutout.  Impressive work for the Jayhawks.   Iowa State over Northern Illinois: 97% for Iowa State, good call on this one. Missouri over Illinois: 87% for the Tigers in this one today.  Higher than I expected considering it requires us to vote for Missouri but it's the correct pick.  Way to swallow your pride men. Texas over Rice: 100% for Texas.  Yawn. Nebraska over...(Read Full Article)

The way June Jones sees it, Tommy Tuberville has a 13-0 lead going into Sunday’s game between Texas Tech and SMU. “They know what we’re about,” Jones said this week as his team prepared for its season opener in Lubbock. “They’ve had the ability to watch all 13 games while we’re unsure of what they’re [...]

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By starting his college football career at Tennessee, Donald Langley got to suit up in all sorts of stadiums. He went on the road with the Volunteers to Georgia, Alabama, Auburn and LSU, to name a few. All those places can assemble a bigger home crowd than Texas Tech, but Langley can’t wait to come [...]

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