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Paul Kelly’s First Year
by Alanah McGinley on 10/24/08 at 06:09 PM ET
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From Pierre LeBrun at ESPN,
It’s time to stop calling Paul Kelly the “new” leader of the players’ union. On Friday, he celebrated his one-year anniversary on the job as executive director of the NHL Players’ Association.
“Today is the big day,” Kelly told ESPN.com in an interview Friday.
Much has changed in his 365 days in office. The players’ union was a divided group when Kelly came on board, still reeling from its controversial decision to accept the sport’s first salary cap in order to end the NHL lockout three years ago.
continued… with a look back and looking ahead
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