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November 25, 1994
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Allison’s injury has Washington doctors confused
It could be the biggest mystery in Washington since Watergate: What’s ailing Canadian major junior player of the year, Jason Allison? Allison missed four Ontario League games with the London Knights and the Washington Capitals were so concerned they dispatched two members of their training staff to London. Afterward, the expected date of Allison’s return remained as much a mystery as the injury, originally believed to be a hip flexor. “It’s hard to pinpoint,” said Frank Costello, the Capitals’ strength and conditioning coach, after he and head trainer Stan Wong conducted on-ice tests with Allison Nov. 8. Included was a videotape of Allison’s skating stride. It will be used to create a three-dimensional computer picture to analyze his skating style to see if it’s contributing to his problems. Allison was a 1993 NHL first-round draft…
Lockout will hurt Stevens
Kevin Stevens figured he needed a full off-season of conditioning work to overcome the problems caused when he received massive facial injuries during a 1993 playoff game. What he didn’t need was an offseason that dragged into late autumn and perhaps longer. The Pittsburgh Penguins’ left winger was near peak condition when training camp ended in late September, but being idled by the NHL’s labor dispute has dulled the edge he worked so hard to regain. “Obviously, this hurts your game conditioning,” he said. “You can work out a couple of times a day, but to lose a month of training…sometimes, it takes a whole training camp to get ready for the first game.” Stevens, who returned to his offseason home in Massachusetts a few weeks into the lockout, said he has skated occasionally,…
Officials, NHL reach 60 per-cent solution
The NHL and NHL Officials’ Association reached agreement on how officials will be paid if the lockout extends beyond Nov. 30. The officials receive their fifth and final full lockout paycheck on that date. After that, they are scheduled to receive 60 per cent of their pay for the duration of the lockout. Officials are guaranteed to receive 72.5 per cent of total pay this season. If the playoffs are cancelled, each full-time official will also receive 72.5 per cent of his scheduled pay; it adds up to $5,437 of a $7,500-post-season guarantee. All officials are scheduled to receive the bonus whether or not they work post-season games. Officials continue to receive full medical benefits. They will also get a year of seniority (which affects pay schedule next year) if the season is wiped…
NHL beware: fans just don’t care
Once upon a time, I posed a simple question to an NHL player-who pays your salary?-and received a predictable response: Why the owners do. That wasn’t the answer I was looking for. All the owners do is act as middlemen. They collect revenue and. after keeping a percentage for themselves, distribute most of the rest to the players. Ultimately, it’s the fans who pay players’ salaries by buying tickets and team merchandise or just by watching games on television. They are the owners’ clients, the industry’s consumers. Right now, NHL players and owners are running a terrible risk by alienating their custurners in ways they’ve never been alienated before. You read these surveys about the fans’ position in the current work stoppage. Some support the players. Others support the owners. My own unscientific approach-which is never…
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