1.   And Cablevision Systems and ITT Corp. own the Knicks and the New York Rangers hockey franchise as well as Madison Square Garden, though the partners are squabbling.

2.   And until Heritage Canada finds a way to subsidize its hockey franchises, we can expect Edmonton and other teams to consider moving across the border.

3.   Ascent, owner of the Denver Nuggets basketball team, the Colorado Avalanche hockey franchise and a hotel video business, has been a drag on Comsat earnings.

4.   ATLANTA- Bring on a national hockey league franchise, I say.

5.   Cohen and Sudikoff struck a deal earlier in the week to sell the financially strapped hockey franchise to billionaire Philip F. Anschutz and Edward P. Roski Jr.

6.   Eleven months ago, this city saw a minor-league hockey franchise ascend to the highest height possible -- for a minor-league franchise.

7.   Is the Bay Area, which has a mixed legacy of supporting hockey franchises, already saturated because of the Sharks?

8.   Madison Square Garden is the home of the New York Knicks basketball team and the Rangers hockey franchise.

9.   So he let partner Harry Glickman, who had owned a successful minor-league hockey franchise, run the Blazers.

10.   The city already has a successful hockey franchise, the IceCats, who draw very well at the Centrum.