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  • Hockey Fan Curses Lockout from Beyond the Grave

    01/21/2005 2:13:04 PM PST · by Dan from Michigan · 30 replies · 543+ views
    reuters ^ | 1-21-05
    Hockey Fan Curses Lockout from Beyond the Grave Fri Jan 21, 1:56 PM ET Oddly Enough - Reuters TORONTO (Reuters) - A Canadian man has cursed the heads of the National Hockey League -- from beyond the grave. Archie Bennitz, 84, an ardent hockey fan from Kanata, Ontario, near Ottawa, used his own obituary to blast NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and NHL Players' Association executive Bob Goodenow, for the lockout which has left fans without hockey this year. The obituary, published in the Ottawa Citizen, was written by Bennitz's 45-year-old son David, who took dictation at his hospital bedside. In...