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Found September 16, 2012 on Queen City Sports: Yardbarker Blogger Network
PLAYERS: Gary Bettman,  Jochen Hecht,  Thomas Vanek,  Jason Pominville,  Derek Roy,  Ryan Miller,  Luke Adam,  Brayden McNabb,  T.J. Brennan,  Zemgus Girgensons,  Tyler Ennis,  Jeff Skinner,  Tyler Seguin
TEAMS: Buffalo Sabres,  Dallas Stars,  Carolina Hurricanes,  Boston Bruins
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The greatest fear of NHL fans has been realized as the lockout is now officially upon us.  For the second time in eight years, and the third time in Gary Bettman’s tenure the NHL owners have locked out the NHL Players Association after failing to come to terms on a new collective bargaining agreement. For now this is a minor inconvenience, training camp is scheduled to start within a week, but the first regular season contest isn’t scheduled until Thursday October 11th.  So there remains a sliver of hope games aren’t lost if the two sides can come to terms prior to that date.  Realistically it looks as though if an agreement can be reached it might be until late November or early December until we see regular season action, coinciding with a shortened season ala the 1994-95 campaign that featured a 48 game season. What does this mean for the Buffalo Sabres?  Well at the moment it doesn’t change much as we are still in pre-training camp time.  The Sabres were scheduled to open up cam...
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