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Bob Clarke's optimism is waning. Though still hopeful the entire NHL season won't be wiped out by the lockout, he knows that time is clearly running out. "Obviously we're reaching the stage where we're going to run out of time," Clarke recently told Phillyburbs.com. "Whether there's a date set [to make an announcement] or you just run out of time, it doesn't make any difference." Clarke said "there can be nothing good for the game or for the players" if an entire season is missed for the first time since the NHL was established in 1917. "What do you accomplish?" he said in the interview. "Players give up a full year's salary Ð the hurt that's going to be put on the game is going to be bad, too, for everybody." Clarke suggested in a previous interview that the players' union look at the salary structures in place in the NBA and NFL, where wages are connected to revenues. After spending three seasons with the Flin Flon Bombers, Clarke was drafted by the Flyers in 1969. He played 15 seasons in Philly, becoming one of the most popular athletes in the city's history en route to a Hall of Fame career. To read the complete interview with Clarke, log onto www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/101-01122005-431063.html
