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Swedish defenseman opts not to go to Swedish Elite League during 2012 NHL Lockout.

While the world of hockey has ended it's summer hibernation, the NHL labor front remains unsettled. One Lightning prospect is down and out, another is tied to the KHL for the next two years, a year since the trage Texas Hold'em wit Vincent Lecavalier

NHL ownership got everything they wanted in the 2004-05 lockout with thanks to a weak union. In 2012, ownership once again cries poverty in the wake of posting record revenues and awarding gargantuan cotnracts.