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CALGARY – A radio station in Alberta has given up a format featuring shorter versions of songs which it said gave listeners “twice the music.”

UNIONDALE, N.Y. – The New York Islanders are selling a minority stake of the team, with a former Washington Capitals co-owner and a London-based investor to become full owners in two years.
OTTAWA – The Ottawa Senators have signed forward Clarke MacArthur to a US$23.25-million, five-year contact extension.
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Three lawsuits filed by retired NHL players over concussion-related injuries have been consolidated and will be heard by a federal judge in Minnesota.
NEW YORK, N.Y. – The NHL draft lottery will have a slightly different look next year and a drastically different one in 2016.

TORONTO – The Vancouver Canucks are confirming that a “mutually agreeable” settlement has been reached in Steve Moore’s lawsuit against NHL forward Todd Bertuzzi over an infamous on-ice attack that ended Moore’s career 10 years ago.

TORONTO – President and chief executive officer Tim Leiweke is focused on his immediate goals at Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment.

TORONTO – Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment has cleared up the uncertainty surrounding president and chief executive officer Tim Leiweke’s long-term future with the company.
TORONTO – Jermain Defoe would like to honour the man who brought him to Toronto with his team’s first ever playoff appearance.
TORONTO – Aaron Ekblad is getting back to work.

OTTAWA – The Ottawa Senators believe they’ll have one of the best goaltending tandems in the NHL rather than a goaltending controversy.
KAMLOOPS, B.C. – A former NHL tough guy is facing assault and driving charges after an alleged incident in Kamloops, B.C.
TORONTO – Tim Leiweke says his desire to be an entrepreneur led to his decision to leave Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment.

They played in a rink at a shopping mall, celebrated goals with music that sounded like a 1970s television theme song and have been gone from pro hockey for 17 years. Yet the iconic blue and green of the Hartford Whalers is as popular and visible as ever.
TORONTO – Rogers has announced its 45-person team for Sportsnet’s NHL coverage in the network’s first season with exclusive Canadian national television rights.

TORONTO – A debut novel from filmmaker David Cronenberg, a short story collection by literary treasure Margaret Atwood, and autobiographies by Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and hockey legend Gordie Howe are among the homegrown highlights of what publishers tout as a diverse and robust fall book landscape in Canada.
Justin Schultz isn’t a fully-formed No. 1 NHL defenceman just yet, so the Edmonton Oilers are giving him a chance to grow into one.
There are some hockey fans in “The Simpsons”‘ writers’ room but apparently the NHL felt a joke that soiled the Stanley Cup went too far.

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Former NHL defenceman and six-time all-star Carol Vadnais died Sunday at 68 years old.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Country star Carrie Underwood and NHL player Mike Fisher chose the Labor Day holiday to announce they are expecting their first child.

WINNIPEG – The Winnipeg Jets have agreed to terms on a three-year, entry-level contract with 2014 first-round pick Nikolaj Ehlers.

OTTAWA – QMI Agency has retracted a story that said NHL superstar Sidney Crosby had been arrested by Ottawa police, saying there was no basis for the report and that it regrets the error.

WINNIPEG – The Winnipeg Jets Hockey are keeping their American Hockey League farm team in St. John’s, N.L., at least to the end of the 2015-’16 season.

BOUCHERVILLE, Que. – Gary Bettman has vehemently denied the NHL is considering expansion.