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  • adjective Before a lockout.

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pre- +‎ lockout

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  • That is just craziness, but it illustrates how much things have changed since the prelockout days of clutch-and-grab hockey.

    Higgins Hockey Fantasy Index 2010–2011 Rob Higgins 2010

  • That is just craziness, but it illustrates how much things have changed since the prelockout days of clutch-and-grab hockey.

    Higgins Hockey Fantasy Index 2010-2011 Rob Higgins 2010

  • That is just craziness, but it illustrates how much things have changed since the prelockout days of clutch-and-grab hockey.

    Higgins Hockey Fantasy Index 2010–2011 Rob Higgins 2010

  • "I do have confidence now that I know how to run start-ups and turnarounds, and the Caps were in turnaround prelockout," Leonsis said.

    Archive 2008-04-01 James Mirtle 2008

  • I'd take watching these Wings dismantle an overmatched Eastern Conference team over those coma-inducing prelockout finals any day.

    Archive 2008-06-01 James Mirtle 2008

  • There are some really solid names on there, and especially on defence, and there's a ton more 'youth' up for grabs than prelockout, when only players aged 31 and over were up for grabs, both on July 1 and as rental players at the trade deadline.

    Archive 2008-02-01 James Mirtle 2008

  • Washington hasn't won a playoff series in a decade; Philadelphia's last win was prelockout, in 2004 against the Maple Leafs.

    Archive 2008-04-01 James Mirtle 2008

  • Highsticking was actually the third-most called penalty prelockout, behind roughing and hooking, and its all the way down to eighth this season — with little more than twice the number of highsticking penalties as puck over the glass calls.

    Archive 2008-01-01 James Mirtle 2008

  • Most of the time teams only have one first-round pick to hang their hat on, and prelockout, that was rarely used on an undersized teen.

    Archive 2008-02-01 James Mirtle 2008

  • Actually, the closest to the "limelight" — other than a well-publicized run in with Al Eagleson — Gillis has really been was his star turn in Money Players, a book written prelockout about the high stakes involved with NHL agents and free agency.

    Archive 2008-04-01 James Mirtle 2008

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