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Haggerty: Spooner deal represents his last chance with Bruins

The Bruins and Ryan Spooner wisely came to a contract agreement on a one-year, $2.825 million deal just prior to the start of Wednesday’s arbitration hearing. Don Sweeney hasn’t yet taken a B’s player to arbitration during his three years running the Black and Gold, and it could have grown unnecessarily contentious with a player like Spooner if they’d been forced to point out his flaws as a player in the uncomfortable setting of an arbitration hearing. “It’s a fair deal for both sides in our opinion,” said Spooner’s agent Murray Kuntz to CSN after the one-year contract had been agreed upon.  Now that Spooner has been signed to the one-year deal, it represents the last chance for the 25-year-old

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  Ryan Spooner, Bruins Avoid Arbitration With Reported $2.825M Contract

  New England Sports Network
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  Fresh Links: Ryan Spooner Needs GRIT, A Harvard Legacy

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Felger: Red Sox need a manager to come in and say 'shut up and play'

Is Red Sox manager John Farrell on the hot seat, again?

Tanguay: Price altercation worse than 'chicken and beer' incident

Lou Merloni joins to discuss a source telling him Pedroia applauded Price for his altercation with Eckersley and Tanguay says this has been worse than

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  Do fans care about David Price-Dennis Eckersley incident?

  CSNNE.com
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  Dan Shaughnessy on the David Price/Dennis Eckersley altercation

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