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Steve Zipay takes you inside the locker room, home and on the road, with the New York Rangers, and also writes about the NHL, off and on the ice.

Lockout musings: Weekend pressure points and beyond

NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, right, and deputy commissioner

Photo credit: AP

I believe it was Plato who said that a beard doesn't make one a philosopher, but I'll toss some musings out anyway: 

All the hockey writers spread out around New York City  today have been tweeting that the federal mediator, Scot Beckenbaugh, has been meeting separately with the two sides, and that no full negotiating session has yet been scheduled.

BUT, how do we know there...

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