21.   Owners have maintained they must bargain merely over the effects of contraction, such as a dispersal draft of players.

22.   Owners say they would bargain over the effects of contraction, such as a dispersal draft of players.

23.   Owners say they merely must bargain over the effects of contraction, such as a dispersal draft of players.

24.   A dispersal draft will be held this month to assign Tampa and Miami players to other teams.

25.   Contraction has chilled the trade market because of uncertainty over which teams will fold and which players will become available either as free agents or in a dispersal draft.

26.   Last year, the Ottawa Rough Riders selected defensive end Derrell Robertson in the Las Vegas Posse dispersal draft.

27.   The defending CHL champion Indianapolis Ice took defensemen John Vary from Topeka and Sandis Girvitch from Border City in the dispersal draft.