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January 27, 1995
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Super Show great exhibition
For hockey equipment manufacturers, most of which are Canadian-based, The Super Show represents an opportunity to showcase their growing product offerings to the growing United States market. Held annually in Atlanta, this year’s Super Show runs Feb. 3-6. While traditional hockey goods manufacturers, such as Canstar, CCM and Karhu will be there in full force, they make up only a small portion of the entire exposition. Now 10 years old, The Super Show covers 2.3 million square feet in the Georgia World Congress Center, Georgia Dome, Atlanta Apparel Mart and the INFORUM. Billed as “one-stop shopping for all sporting hard, goods, softgood and apparel,” this year’s event will draw roughly 2,800 exhibitors in 10,000 booths and more than 100,000 attendees. Still, The Super Show has become increasingly important for hockey manufacturers as they…
St. Louis excited about its team’s Cup chances
No sooner had NHL players and owners reached a tentative collective bargaining agreement, than talk of the Stanley Cup resumed in St. Louis. Management held a news conference in the Blues’ new dressing room at Kiel Center. The backdrop was a wall emblazoned with the words “We Work And Win Together,” the bluenote and a photograph the Stanley Cup. Blues’ president Jack Quinn noted the agreement lasts until the year 2000 and predicted, “I’m confident that we’ll bring that Cup here in that period.” General manager and coach Mike Keenan got into the act, too, shrugging off a question about the asterisk that might be applied to the Cup winner in this abbreviated season. “If we have the opportunity to worry about (an asterisk), the people in this community won’t give a damn,” he…
Free at last… at 32 Unrestricted free agency main issue owners refused to slip through hands
NEW YORK-The year 2001 promis-es to be an odyssey for Jeremy Roenick. That’s when the Chicago Blackhawks’ superstar will be eligible for Group III unrestricted free agency for the first time. Roenick, 25, has to play six more seasons before reaching age 31 and qualifying for complete freedom-something he covets so much it strongly colors his view of the new collective bargaining agreement. “I don’t like the deal very much,” he said. “We gave up way too much. We pretty much limited free agency to almost nobody.” Roenick is the Blackhawks’ player rep and wouldn’t say how he voted on ratification, but his team endorsed the new contract. “I think the free agency is a killer,” Roenick said. “When you have virtually no free agency in the sport, to limit where you can go, where…
Laying out guidelines for players in middle
The transition game is often the difference between winning and losing for NHL teams. Teams that make quick shifts from defensive to offensive postures usually capitalize on turnovers all over the ice. This year, the most important transition games will take place off the ice under a commplicated set of rules and regulations set out by the NHL and NHL Players’ Association to facilitate a changeover from terms of the old collective bargaining agreement to the new CBA. Those of significance include: Players drafted in 1994 or before aren’t subject to the new entry-level salary cap provided they sign before the 1995 entry draft. Teams who made offers to players before the signing freeze took effect last fall cannot withdraw the offers before the 1995 draft, likely July 8 in Winnipeg. Notable players…
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