Not just rules for players anymore in NHL

         In This week's edition of the sports business journal there is an article on a new rule in the NHL.  This rule though is for the owners and not the players.  The new rule requires all NHL team owners to disclose any business deals that are made with other team players.   The rule was written in September because of a loan that was taken from AEG (who owns the LA kings) by the former Predators owner that had to list the loan when he filed for bankruptcy.  The league never knew about the loan.
         I am not sure about this rule for the NHL; this will just help to make sure that something like this doesn't happen again.  It really doesn't do anything other than that, some would say that this relates to collusion, but it doesn't.  You have to remember that collusion is illegal so I am pretty sure that owners wouldn't make it a public document.  It does however show which owners are having business relationships which could relate to something like that if a collusion case was ever brought up in the future.

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