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Dougie Hamilton ready for NHL debut | 01.19.13 at 12:20 pm ET |
It's cliche to say that every young hockey player dreams of one day being in the NHL, but it's true. Dougie Hamilton will finally realize his dream when he takes the ice Saturday night at TD Garden against the Rangers.
Hamilton, 19, comes into the NHL with some big expectations. The 6-foot-5 blueliner was drafted with the ninth overall pick in 2011 and dominated the OHL last season with 72 points (17 goals, 55 assists) in 50 games.
Maybe Hamilton will deal with nerves (often times veterans will tell young players to try to hit someone as soon as possible on their first shift to get it out of their system and get comfortable), or maybe there will just be excitement. Hamilton doesn't know exactly what it will feel like, but he's guessing he'll like it.
"I'm sure I'll have a smile on my face," Hamilton said after Saturday's morning skate. "It's a dream come true for me. The opportunity is really special, and I'm just going to enjoy it as much as I can."
Hamilton's parents will be in town for the Ontario native's debut after catching brother Freddie Hamilton's game for the Worcester Sharks Friday night. Dougie didn't go to Friday's Worcester game, electing to rest up for what figures to be a big day. Though he may have felt like a kid on Christmas Eve, Hamilton said he "slept great."
Claude Julien hasn't hidden the fact that he has quite a bit of faith in the 19-year-old. In addition to putting him on an important pairing with Dennis Seidenberg, Julien has trusted Hamilton with a spot on the team's second power-play unit.
This is the same coach who took heat (much of it unfair) for not playing Tyler Seguin enough on the power play in his rookie year, but Julien clearly likes what Hamilton brings to the table even as a rookie, and he wants to see as much of it right away as possible.
If the mistakes come from the rookie, they come. Julien would rather Hamilton play his game and learn as he goes than take a timid approach.
"If he's still here, it's because he's good enough to play," Julien said of Hamilton. "I think you've got to allow players to go out there and play. You've heard me say that before: Go out there and play. I'd rather pull him back than have to push him. So he's got to go out there with confidence, and he's got to go out there knowing that we have the confidence in him, and just play his game."
Hamilton projects to be a top-pairing defenseman one day and has drawn comparisons to former Norris Trophy winner Rob Blake. He still needs to fill out his frame (he's a bit lanky at 199 pounds, though both Seidenberg and Zdeno Chara have each gained 20 or more pounds since coming into the league as rookies) and adjust to the physical demands of the league, among other things, but Julien looks at Hamilton's game and sees NHL experience as the only thing missing.
"He's a pretty good all-around defenseman. What he's got to do is gain some experience, and that will only come with time," Julien said. "I think we all know he's got the size, we all know he can move the puck well. We all know he skates well, we all know he's got great hockey sense, so where is his weakness? I don't think he has a weakness more than the only weakness he has is his lack of experience. We've got to allow him to get that.
"We like where he is, we like what he's brought so far, and you've seen lots of guys come in the league the same way he has and do well, and we expect him to be that guy."
Ray Bourque on M&M: Dougie Hamilton 'a little bit like I was at that age' | 01.16.13 at 2:19 pm ET |
Bruins legend Ray Bourque talked with Mut & Merloni on Wednesday about the end of the NHL lockout, his son's play at Bruins camp, and Dougie Hamilton's situation as a promising teenage defenseman.
Through Celebrities for Charities, Bourque is sponsoring a raffle in which the winner gets to watch the Bruins' season-opener with him and his family — an opportunity many Bruins fans would love no matter what, but even more so considering that Chris Bourque could be taking the ice.
"He is so excited about the opportunity," Bourque said of his son. "This kid grew up in the old Garden and the FleetCenter and the new Garden, skating. I'd bring him to the rink as much as as I could, two, three times a week, and he'd start skating. He was on skates at 2½. Chris and his brother Ryan ran around that room and drove the trainers crazy for many, many years. To put that Bruins jersey on last night [in the Bruins' scrimmage against the AHL Providence Bruins] and go out and play in the Garden was a real thrill for him.
"I wasn't at the game last night — I actually went and saw my younger son Ryan play in Portland as part of the Rangers' farm team — but I'm really excited and hoping to see [Chris] this weekend. And I got a lot of texts saying he played well and did a good job."
Bourque also weighed in on Hamilton, who will try to establish himself as a high-scoring 19-year-old Bruins defenseman this year, just as Bourque himself once did.
"The position is not an easy one to play in the NHL at a young age," Bourque said. "But I've got to say, he's coming into such a good situation, just like I did. I didn't come in with an expansion team or where expectations are for you to carry a load, to be the savior. He's just here to do his job and play his game, and his game is a very good game.
"He's got a lot of talent, he's got great size, he's got all the tools. Who knows how it's going to start, but this kid could play for the Bruins for many many years. It's a comfortable situation to come into as a young guy you're supported by so many veterans. Guys like [Zdeno] Chara and [Dennis] Seidenberg and their whole defense corps are very solid and such great veterans in how they go about their business and how they prepare and all that stuff. For a young guy to see that and to live that, there's no better situation to be in, and I know they're going to be right there in terms of support for him and giving him advice. Just watching with your own eyes and seeing how they're doing their job will be great for him.
"I met him the other night. He was at my restaurant, Tresca, and he was coming out. Very quiet, very shy, a little bit like I was at that age. I just spoke to him for a little bit and look forward to talking with him more. He's excited about the opportunity. I think we're going to see him around this year, but many, many years to come, we're going to see this guy and he's going to be a big part of the Bruins."
WILMINGTON — Bruins rookie defenseman Dougie Hamilton has been paired with Dennis Seidenberg from the start of training camp, and with little time to mix and match in a shortened camp, it would appear that the two will be partners as the season opens this weekend.
Claude Julien did his best to pump the brakes on the buzz the pairing has created, saying Wednesday that while the two are partners for now, there's still the possibility that Hamilton will play with another B's blueliner in the coming days or weeks.
"You put those guys with the guys you know you can trust, but this is just a start," Julien said. "I don't want anybody thinking that it's carved in stone that that's his partner. You're probably going to see throughout the year pairs moved around a little bit, but certainly he can benefit from the wisdom of those veteran players around him."
Julien did say that he's liked the job that Seidenberg, 31, has done helping the 19-year-old along.
"Any time a young player plays with a veteran you can gain a lot, especially if the veteran is a good veteran that will share his experience, his expertise with the player and help calm him down when maybe he gets running around a little bit or he gets uptight, whether it's on the bench or on the ice. Coaches do a lot, but a teammate with some experience can do a lot as well."
Though Hamilton and Seidenberg seem to be the pairing for now, it wouldn't be crazy for the B's to try to get some games out of the usually reserved-for-playoffs pairing of Seidenberg and Zdeno Chara early on. That would certainly be an easy way to prevent getting off to a slow start in the 48-game season.
Bruins get to work on power play | 01.14.13 at 10:23 am ET |
WILMINGTON — The second day of training camp meant addressing a common source of frustration for the Bruins, as they worked on the power play in anticipation of the upcoming season.
The B's, who finished 20th in power play efficiency (scoring 16.2 percent of the time) in 2010-11 and 15th (17 percent) last season, used the following units, with Rich Peverley and Gregory Campbell mixing into the first unit:
PP1: Zdeno Chara, David Krejci, Nathan Horton, Tyler Seguin, Milan Lucic
PP2: Dennis Seidenberg, Dougie Hamilton, Chris Bourque, Patrice Bergeron, Brad Marchand
Campbell rotated in for Lucic as a net-front presence, while Peverley would replace Krejci on the point. Krejci said that he played some point on the power play in the Czech Extraliga during the lockout.
After the practice, Bergeron spoke about the power play work, noting that the B's will have to put Claude Julien and Geoff Ward's planning during the lockout to good use, and quickly.
"It's a short season. We don't have that much time, and we need to be prepared right away," Bergeron said. "Special teams on both sides are going to be very important. The power play is no different. We don't have that much time to work on it, so today was the perfect day to do that."
The Bruins have been pretty forthcoming with their intentions to have Hamilton on the team this year, so it shouldn't come as too much of a surprise that he's already being used on the power play. After all, the season is five days away, so cushiony period of easing him into scenarios doesn't really exist. Bergeron thinks he'll handle the challenge well.
"He looks good," Bergeron said of Hamilton. "He seems to be pretty poised with the puck and making the right plays. It's only his second practice '¦ but today I got the chance to work with him a little more and he seems to be a very good player, very smart. He doesn't look like he's 19 out there."
Hamilton is an obvious choice on the power play, as the 6-foot-5 blueliner had 17 goals and 55 assists for 72 points in 50 games last season as the OHL's most outstanding defenseman.
Zdeno Chara: Dougie Hamilton 'way better than I was at his age' | 01.13.13 at 3:24 pm ET |
Following the Bruins' first day of training camp in front of approximately 1,000 fans at TD Garden, B's captain Zdeno Chara sang the praises of fellow defenseman Dougie Hamilton. The 19-year-old, who was named the most outstanding defenseman in the OHL, is expected to make the team this year after being drafted ninth overall in the 2011 draft.
"You don't see very often guys being so humble and almost shy come around and be so good," Chara said of Hamilton. "We all can see he's very talented and willing to learn, so it's exciting for all of us to have a guy like that around and try to help him out as much as you can and see him growing as a person."
Hamilton has long looked up to Chara, as he is also a taller blueliner (Hamilton stands at 6-foot-5, while Chara is the tallest player in the history of the NHL at 6-foot-9). Asked if he saw some of his younger self in Hamilton, Chara said that he wasn't as advanced at 19 as Hamilton is now.
"He's way better. He's way better than I was, I can tell you right now," Chara said. "He's way better than I was at his age."
Hamilton, whose Twitter avatar is a picture of him standing on the ice with Chara, lit up when told of the captain's praise.
"That's awesome," Hamilton said. "Just watching him out there, you can see how good he is. I don't get to watch that much NHL hockey because we're always playing. But you go out there and watch him and he's pretty sick. If I can learn from him and try to get better and just watch him, he's going to help me out a lot. I'm really looking forward to that."
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Bruins away from Boston roundup: Stats from around the world | 10.01.12 at 12:05 pm ET |
With the NHL still locked out and lovin' it (not really, but that's catchy), here's a look at how some of the B's players and prospects are faring in various other leagues. Some players, such as Andrew Ference, have yet to join their new teams, while other players in the area still may elect to sign elsewhere, so these roundups will get longer as the weeks go on.
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– Tyler Seguin's first game with EHC Biel left him with a stat line fans might like but Claude Julien would consider a nightmare: one assist and a minus-4 rating. There are plenty more points to come for Seguin, with the 20-year-old probably eager to improve that plus/minus. Remember, Seguin had a plus-34 rating last season, something that was undoubtedly aided by the fact that he was on a line with the Selke winner.
– Alexander Khockhlachev has one goal and a minus-5 rating through 11 games in the KHL. The plan was for the Bruins' 2011 second-round pick to play in the KHL this season regardless of CBA goings on, as a season with the Moscow Spartak working for his father (Igor Khokhlachev is the team's general manager) figured to be more beneficial than a third turn turn in the OHL for the 19-year-old.
– In five games for Moscow Oblast Atlant, Bruins backup goalie Anton Khudobin is 2-1-1 with a 2.63 goals-against average and a .927 save percentage.
– Dougie Hamilton scored his first goal of the season on Sunday night in Niagara's 5-4 loss to Kingston, a game in which Hamilton added an assist and had a plus-4 rating. Through four games in his fourth season with Niagara, Hamilton has a goal and three assists for four points and a plus-6 rating with four penalty minutes. Hamilton will join the Bruins for camp if and when a new collective bargaining agreement is reached.
– 2011 third-round pick Anthony Camara has a whopping five goals and six points through five games this season for the Barrie Colts. The tough guy has added 10 penalty minutes and has a plus-1 rating. Three of those goals came in the form of a hat trick in Barrie's season-opener.
Remember, Camara was a somewhat surprising pick when the B's grabbed him as early as they did in 2011, as he had totaled just 14 goals in two OHL seasons to that point. Last season, Camara had 16 goals between Saginaw and Barrie, and it's clear that his exponential offensive improvement is still going. Keep an eye on Camara, as his grit and newfound scoring touch could one day make him an ideal Bruin.
– Through four games with Belleville, 2012 24th overall pick Malcolm Subban is 2-2-0 with a 1.98 goals-against average and a .935 save percentage. Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli told reporters Friday that the B's could bring Subban to camp this season the way they will with Hamilton, but you'd have to think that would be very unlikely given how far away from NHL-ready the 18-year-old is.
Dougie Hamilton's OHL coach: 'Once the lockout ends, he will join the Bruins' | 09.14.12 at 6:11 pm ET |
Friday's news that the Bruins had assigned Dougie Hamilton back to his OHL team meant that the Bruins had to be pretty darn sure that they'd be able to get him back once the lockout ended.
While the CHL/NHL transfer agreement expired this summer, Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli said last week that he was confident that teams would be able to assign junior-eligible players to their junior teams and recall at least one of them to the NHL once a new CBA was reached, and that Hamilton would be that player for the B's. Following Hamilton's assignment, Niagara IceDogs coach and general manager Marty Williamson told WEEI.com that it's everyone's understanding that Hamilton will be a Bruin as soon as the lockout ends.
"Absolutely," Williamson said. "There's no way our league's going to stop these guys from going [to the NHL]. I know 100 percent they're behind it that as soon as the lockout ends, that he will join the Bruins."
Hamilton, who would have attended this week's Bruins rookie camp (the camp, which was slated to begin Friday was cancelled due to CBA uncertainty), has been practicing with the IceDogs for nearly two weeks, according to Williamson. Now that he's officially been assigned to the OHL, he will play in his first game next Thursday.
The ninth overall pick in the 2011 draft, Hamilton had 72 points last season in 50 regular-season games.
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It's not even legible writing.
I think someone was actually trying to stab her with a ballpoint, and her implants just deflected the blows.
Ugh..that's disgusting.
I think you are all just mistaken… it says "A screaming came across the sky…"
The REST of the full (annotated) text of "Gravity's Rainbow" is continued below the bra line.
That's "comes" not "came".
Ironic literary correctness.
she looks more like a man in every picture i see of her. what does any guy see in her disease carrying, abused body?
ray j isn't even looking at her. he's looking down sheepishly, ashamed to be caught with her, as she reacts to the camera as a vampire does to sunlight.
ray j internal monologue:…it's not worth looking at pamela unless her titties are facing me..
pamela also manhandles her red jacket in a unique manner. perhaps practicing to be a matador? is the reason she looks so terrified because a bull is charging at her?
i just can't wrap my head around the strangeness of this photo.
Well, she really does have over 50% more skin then other people, why not use it wisely?
I'm sure her sons are very proud. But those are definetly numbers.
Hell the woman could probably use her vagina as a DAY RUNNER.
But really if she's wants to use up her ample space- she should start with that vacant mellon on her shoulders.
HA, good one hafaball.
"Wow mommie- letters too!"
Chick is such a slut, the boob probably reads:
"Shoot ur load here!"
haha comment #1 made me laff
Actually what's written are the activation codes for the toxic nerve gas within her implants. QUICK, CALL JACK BAUER!
That woman has no class. She looks ugly without the fresh make up , the fresh hair…She would not be nobody without her implants and the long blond hair!! She get up in the morning for her kids after partying so many times!!?
It's clearly the beginning of "For Whom The Bell Tolls." The rest of the 496-page classic is found on the underside (cleverly hidden under her shirt).
For once….I wouldn't hit it.
That coat looks like leather and fur, Miss Animal Rights. Someone alert Peta to arm the flour gun.
What a boob.
I'd venture to say that the coat is fake leather and faux fur. However, if you check out the rest of the pictures at hollywoodrag.com, you'll see pictures of her getting out of a car with (gasp!) leather seats. At least, I'm pretty sure they're leather. Last time I checked, the super-fancy cars that celebrities use aren't upholstered with naugehyde. What a hypocrite.
Sorry to make a serious post here but, those poor kids! She always talks about what a great mother she is yet, in every picture she's out partying. I just feel bad for her kids! Hollyweird just has no clue how to raise children!
It reads:
Thoughts? Other than why she would choose such an ugly color for her bra. Or bother with one at all…
Full text on her boob: (Including the part obscured by clothing)
Golddigger for hire, call:
David Lee
Roth … PLEASE! I NEED THE MONEY!!!
Pam still has a vagina..CHRIST! She has a "little mileage" on her. I heard that a college student lost his computer and was desperate and ran into Pam Anderson's melons and begged her to write his senior thesis on her tits. She obliged.
I'd fuck her still, however her twat is like throwing a toothpick in the Lincoln Tunnel, it won't do any good.
THIS made superficial news??? God…this site is slipping…Yawn…NEXT.
Wait a minute
#21, of course thats whats in all the pictures. would you expect pictures of her getting her boys breakfast and taking them to school?
I wouldnt feel sorry for her boys. I'm sure they are just fine.
Feel sorry for the kids of crack head junkies instead.
(sorry to be serious)
Looks to me like the Westside Bloods tagged her ass. So you Eastside punks better not go near her less you get a cap in your ass.
Ray J (whoever the f$ck he is) evidently got bored trying to carry on a conversation with Pam, which is understandable since it's been discovered that her head doesn't cast a shadow. Anyway, to fight the boredom he started doodling on the biggest surface he could find. She probably doesn't even know the writing's there.
And #7 Evangelia – it looks like she's swinging her coat around to put it on. That doesn't explain the deer-in-the-headlights look on her ravaged, aging face, however.
Doesn't she have Hepatitis C? With all the partying this old bag does, shouldn't she be yellow?
In response to #30 – I think that is why she tans to offset the color.
What is Ray J doing with her? That's the part that is really bothering me. Forget the written on boob. That is an odd siting.
She is in talks to do a new movie "TransPamela". she is perfect for the part with her fake boobs, man hands and swarthy jawline. Oh and her fake Va-youknowwhat.
Oh, Pammy. Pammy, Pammy, Pammy. I don't think your vagina's so big it can be used for transportation. Please loan me $5000 so I can get implants and be cool like you. Pleeease?????
Wow, that wall must have hurt when she smashed into it….when did Pam Anderson start to look the same as Melanie Griffith?
Why not she's used them for everything else.
Pamela, you are no longer hot. Can't you read the writing on the boob?
Someone signed her breast looks like. She looks like she's on crack. What the hell?!
People, its just the face she's making that makes her look so horrible. Have you ever taken a picture of yourself while you were talking?? I guarantee you you look just as bad if not worse.
She's just keeping track of who she gave hep c to that day.
One day, if she's lucky and keeps up with the plastic surgery she can look this good.
I kept trying to read it and then i realized i was staring at pam's boob. ugh. the burning!
#22 & 23 – I'm pretty impressed
so she had her implants taken out, then put back in? That can't be good for the body…
The writing clearly says 'the combination is 38-15-23. The Jade Monkey is inside'
#42…I'm a pharmacist. I translate illegible handwriting for a living, although will say I've never had to read a prescription written on an inflatable mammary before.
It is some guy's number
David Ro
could be 401-238 and David Bo
The phone number is for David Lee Roth. He heard she had a thing for washed up rockers from the 80's. Watch for the video in stores soon.
#44…DuDE!! I want to go to pharmacy school!!!! Any pointers…where did you go???
Oh…and WTF is Pam Anderson doing with Ray J?…Thats like …uh…Pam Anderson hanging out with Ray J….(Couldnt think of anything worse)
Why does Ray-Jay's ski cap have a freakin' chin-strap? It looks like an old-timey leatherhelmet that retards in the 1970's used to wear so they wouldn't hurt themselves when they ran full-speed into walls, playgroung equipment and/or urinals. Urinals used to hurt the worst.
Anyways, maybe its best Ray-Jay is around two fully deployed air (more like saline) bags.
I think the writing on Pam's airbags is a warning to midgets and small children that they could be killed in case of a colision.
She looks like shit in this photo. I guess those $500 oxygen facials don't do a thing. She is why you should use sunblock and condoms. I do admit, she was hot on Home Improvement and in her early 20's.
youre all fucking useless … ray j's "helmet" is a backwards hat and those are his SUNGLASSES under his chin
Pam is a PETA supporter so of course she wouldnt wear real leather or fur
she looks awesome for having hepC and if you will recall it wasnt from sleeping around … it was from TOMMY … her HUSBAND when he gave her a tattoo
the reason you dont see Pam with her kids is b/c she DOES take care of them, she has managed to keep them low on the radar and has so protected them from the photogs who harrass celebrity kids
the only place Pam is showing her age is her hands … and they always age first … as for the rest of her skin, if you call that weathered, you must be carved from stone b/c her complexion is better than mine and im sure she has a couple decades on me
Pam takes good care of herself and it shows … as far as sleeping around, im sure she has no more skeletons in her closet than any of you, go pick on lindsay lohan you fiends
plus who really even gives a fuck what it says on her boob … get back to work, fools !

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Johnny CurrenAn up-and-down sophomore season and competition from Anthony Sarao could have made Lamar Dawson fold. But the junior middle linebacker rose to the challenge this spring.
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USC Trojans depth chart after spring practice analysis
Johnny CurrenThe quarterback battle will continue and freshmen are making their presence felt in analysis of USC's depth chart after spring practice.
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USC's Sun Bowl history not very positive
Johnny CurrenUSC has had the Sun Bowl blues, as it has lost its only two trips to El Paso, falling to Michigan State in 1990 and TCU in 1998.
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Khaled Holmes a coach for USC Trojans on the field
Johnny CurrenServing as an impromptu coach during Wednesday's practice was no big thing for USC senior center Khaled Holmes, who has been a coach of sorts in the middle of the Trojans' offensive line.
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Mater Dei Monarchs Long Beach Poly Jackrabbits renew rivalry
Johnny CurrenTwo of the L.A. areas most successful high school football programs will meet Saturday for the SIF Southern Section championship.
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USC Trojans defensive tackle Leonard Williams another impact Flor...
Johnny CurrenDefensive tackle Leonard Williams is the latest in the long line of Florida freshman who have instantly made an impact at USC.
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Inside Saturday's game between the USC Trojans and the Colorado B...
Johnny CurrenColorado has been scuffling en route to a 1-5 start, not the best way to enter a game against USC.
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Inside Thursday's game between the USC Trojans and the Utah Utes
Johnny CurrenUtah and its strong front seven look to bounce back from a 37-7 loss to Arizona State against USC.
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USC upcoming schedule
Johnny CurrenA statistical breakdown of the remaining opponents on USC's schedule.
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Inside Saturday's game between the USC Trojans and the Cal Bears
Johnny CurrenUSC has won eight in a row against the Bears, but Cal looks to snap that streak on the heels of a strong performance against Ohio State.
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Inside Saturday's game between USC Trojans and Syracuse Orange
Johnny CurrenSyracuse's offense, led by senior quarterback Ryan Nassib, can pass with anyone, but can the Orange put up enough points to hang with the No. 2-ranked USC Trojans?
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USC cornerback Nickell Robey makes big impact with small frame
Johnny CurrenMost 5-foot-8 football players are easy to miss. But USC cornerback Nickell Robey has made himself impossible to ignore.
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Inside Saturday's game between USC Trojans and Hawaii Warriors
Johnny CurrenWhile some of the focus Saturday will shift to Norm Chow returning against USC as a head coach, Hawaii faces quite the (obvious) test on the field, particularly with an unproven starter at the helm in QB Sean Schroeder.
Story | Conversation | August 30, 2012


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This 2005 text explores the implications of a bargaining perspective for institutional governance and public law in deregulated industries such as electric power and telecommunications. Leading media accounts blame deregulated markets for failures in competitive restructuring policies. However, the author argues that governmental institutions, often influenced by private stakeholders, share blame for the defects in deregulated markets. The first part of the book explores the minimal role that judicial intervention played for much of the twentieth century in public utility industries and how deregulation presents fresh opportunities and challenges for public law. The second part of the book explores the role of public law in a deregulatory environment, focusing on the positive and negative incentives it creates for the behavior of private stakeholders and public institutions in a bargaining-focused political process.
The Scope of Regulatory Bargaining
Contracts and other bargains are fundamental to competitive markets. Deregulated electric power and telecommunications markets look to contract to define the relationships between private firms, as well as between private firms and customers. As Joseph Kearney and Thomas Merrill (1998) note in the leading legal treatment of the topic of deregulation: "The new paradigm seeks to subject to ordinary contractual relations all common carrier and public utility services that can be provided through multiple competing providers" (1363). With deregulation, contract will become the primary mechanism for ordering market transactions between private firms and their customers, largely displacing traditional regulatory doctrines that required firms to provide service to customers on predetermined terms and conditions.
Contract is also fundamental to theories of regulation and regulatory law.1 As economists studying regulated industries with natural monopoly characteristics have long recognized, regulation bears structural similarity to a long-term bilateral contract (Goldberg, 1976; Joskow & Schmalensee, 1983). The actions of the regulator can be analogized to contracts and other bargains. More than for run-of-the-mill industries, the contractual understanding of regulation is fundamental to capital-intensive industries, such as electric power and telecommunications.2 For these infrastructure industries, capital investments comprise a large portion of the firm's costs. The firm is only able to pay for these investments over a sustained period of time, making contract a useful way of approaching the finance issue faced by firms and regulators (Gómez-Ibáñez, 2003). To the extent it encourages investment, commitment is fundamental to any account of economic regulation. Contract - a legal tool for establishing commitment - is thus an obvious mechanism for regulatory law to invoke in order to promote investment.
Although notions of the regulatory contract are not foreign to regulatory law, discussion of the regulatory contract is highly polarized. Only at the fringes of regulatory law do contractual and other bargaining concepts enter into serious discussion. This may be due to overreliance on courts as the final arbiter of contracts and a narrow understanding of the scope of contractual bargaining. A bargaining account of government relations can shed light on the history of regulation, as well as on its operation and any changes in regulatory approach. With deregulation and other legal transitions, contractual aspects of regulation have taken on renewed vigor. However, in the context of electric power and telecommunications deregulation, litigants and commentators have made a distinctively legalistic turn in discussion of the regulatory contract and its enforcement. Their approach to the regulatory contract is typically limited to discrete bargains between the firm and governmental bodies, ignoring the bargaining process and other transactional settings, such as bargaining between governing bodies. Many of the important public law questions in economic regulation that are implicated by contractual bargaining remain largely unexplored.
A good example of the polarized nature of the issue is "deregulatory takings" - a prominent theory first advanced a decade ago by scholars and utility advocates. Writing at the height of electric power and telecommunications deregulation in the 1990s, J. Gregory Sidak and Daniel F. Spulber invoked the regulatory contract (which they refer to interchangeably as both a "compact" and a "contract") as a foundational concept for their account of the state's obligations in introducing competition to industries such as telecommunications and electric power. According to them, the regulatory contract between the firm and the regulator is comprised of reciprocal burdens and benefits:
The regulated utility submits to various regulatory restrictions including price regulations, quality-of-service requirements, and common carrier regulations. In return the regulated firm receives a protected franchise in its service territory, and its investors are allowed an opportunity to earn revenues subject to a rate-of-return constraint. Without the expectation of earning a competitive rate of return, investors would not be willing to commit funds for establishing and operating the utility....Once the utility invests these funds, the long depreciation schedules typical in electricity and telecommunications regulation credibly commit the utility to performing its obligations under the regulatory contract by denying it the opportunity to recover its capital before the end of its useful life.3
This argument for deregulatory takings is a modern application of an implied regulatory contract in which the terms of the bargain are not necessarily express. Critics of this view, writing mostly from a legal perspective (Chen, 1999; Hovenkamp, 1999b; Rossi, 1998b), stake out an alternative view of the explicit regulatory contract that would allow regulators to change the terms and conditions of the regulatory contract with little or no attention to the costs this may impose on incumbent firms. In the 1990s, the debate represented by these two polar positions was among the most significant issues facing regulatory law.
Although this debate may have been the rage among regulatory lawyers during the 1990s, the issues faced today in industries such as electric power and telecommunications have little or nothing to do with deregulatory takings. As we near the end of more than a decade of legal transitions, dismantling old regulatory structures and replacing them with new ones, the short-lived theory of deregulatory takings might lead us to question whether the regulatory contract on which deregulatory takings is premised retains any relevance for these industries. That is, once old regulatory structures crumble, can the regulatory contract still be brought to bear on the conflicts infrastructure industries face, or is it a relic of an older economic and legal order with little modern application? In this book, I set out to advance government relations bargaining - a political process theory of the regulatory contract - as relevant to the deregulatory context and other legal transitions. Contract remains relevant, I argue, but bargaining accounts of regulation are challenged to tackle new issues in a changing regulatory environment. Bargaining accounts of government relations will bring important new insights to bear for public law in the context of economic regulation.
In the summer of 2003, a massive blackout left 50 million customers in much of the Northeast and portions of the Midwest without electric power. The blackout affected an area extending from New York, Massachusetts, and New Jersey west to Michigan, and from Ohio north to Toronto and Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The economic costs it imposed are staggering.4 Media accounts were quick to blame the blackout on deregulatory policies the electric power industry adopted throughout the 1980s and 1990s.5 Although intuitively appealing, efforts to blame deregulation for the problem fail to explain the mechanism by which deregulation might have contributed to the problem. There is, for example, little reason to expect traditional rate regulation would have fared better in avoiding the 2003 blackout.6
How, if at all, has deregulation failed? Has deregulation made industries such as electric power better (cheaper, more reliable, etc.) or worse for consumers, investors, and firms, and what role, if any, has the law played in this? Notions of the regulatory bargain can shed light on the issues faced by deregulated industries, such as electric power, and by other industries in transition. The conventional account of deregulation's weakness suggests that enhanced competition between firms will sometimes - perhaps even frequently - lead to predatory market conduct that harms consumers (Kuttner, 1999). This account might be applied to critique electric power deregulation, perhaps as much as in any other sector of the economy affected by deregulation. In California's newly deregulated electric power market in the late 1990s, energy supply firms were able to manipulate supply and prices, seeking short-term gain at a cost to consumers and others (Weaver, 2004). Similarly, in deregulated wholesale power markets (structured primarily by federal as opposed to state regulators), private greed certainly contributed in part to a serious shortage in generation supply and transmission capacity, exacerbating the blackouts that left New York City and much of the northeastern United States in the dark in the summer of 2003.7 On this account of deregulation's weakness, private greed is the core cause of failures in the transition to competitive markets.
This account of deregulation's weakness is controversial. It may or may not have merit, but it is not the full story. Deregulated markets face another challenge that is underexplored in the popular and academic press. Most economists believe that properly designed markets can curtail the negative impacts of greed in the competitive process. Changes to regulatory structure are not only relevant insofar as they influence how private firms compete with each other in the unregulated sphere of the marketplace. Regulatory change also affects how firms interact with and influence governmental bodies in the formulation and implementation of regulatory law. Government relations bargaining in this context have serious consequences for the regulatory process and for public law.
For example, the failure of electric power deregulation in California was as much a consequence of ill-conceived government competition policies, frequently framed by public law doctrines, as it was a consequence of private greed in deregulated markets. Like most deregulated markets, California's plan to deregulate retail electric power did not dismantle government regulation. Instead, it emphasized new types of regulation, such as a state-supervised power pool that prohibited certain types of transactions and sanctioned others. Wholesale power supply markets, largely deregulated by the federal government in the 1990s, before California's retail market opened, are subject to market-based supply decisions by private firms and large price swings. California retail power suppliers, however, were subject to a price cap imposed by state lawmakers and were also prohibited from using long-term contracts to serve retail customers. Due to the state-imposed price cap, California utilities were precluded from passing on their costs to customers, forcing them to absorb monumental losses in highly volatile short-term supply markets when wholesale power prices skyrocketed. Several electric power utilities in the state - previously considered risk-free investments - went bankrupt. Undoubtedly, state policy decisions in California to cap retail prices and prohibit long-term contracts were influenced by strategic lobbying and other regulatory maneuvers on the part of private stakeholders in the California law-making process. Private manipulation of government regulation is as significant as, and may even eclipse, private abuse of competitive markets.8 To the extent public law invites such manipulation, it shares responsibility for failed market policies.
Most accounts of California's failed deregulatory policies focus on private greed in the marketplace. In contrast, a government relations bargaining story of California's failed deregulation plan highlights weak links in the political processes leading to the formation and implementation of competitive retail power markets in the state. Firm-government interactions had significant influence on the path of California's competition policies as it implemented its deregulation plan. So did government-government interactions, as utilities in the state were brought to the brink of financial disaster while federal and state regulatory bodies faced off in inaction - each attempting to pass the blame to the other for the failures in California's deregulated markets, with neither one stepping up to the plate to address the serious regulatory problems that had been created. Public law doctrines, such as the filed rate doctrine (see Chapter 6) and federal preemption (see Chapter 8), were central to this crisis.
A government relations bargaining account can also be used to explore the issues of transmission reliability - perhaps the greatest problem competitive markets in electric power will face in the coming decade. A massive blackout in the summer of 2003 left large portions of the Northeast and Midwest without power due to a cascading failure of the interstate transmission grid. The 2003 blackout may have been triggered by individual negligence (and perhaps even greed, although that is doubtful), but private market behavior was certainly not the immediate reason the blackout spread from Ohio, where it is widely reported the initial event leading to the blackout occurred, to New York and other states. Consequences were made far worse for areas like New York City due to both public and private failures to expand transmission facilities over several decades. These failures were influenced by private conduct in a regulatory process - both preceding and following deregulation - as much as by deregulation itself. As one author observes, "[e]lectricity consumption increased by 35 percent in the 1990s alone (and is twice the level of the early 1970s), with transmission carrying capacity increasing by only 10 percent" (Sillin, 2003: 34).
Private utilities - owning both transmission, a natural monopoly network, and generation, which is competitive - frequently resist the expansion of transmission when it is not in the interest of their profits. Their influence is magnified, perhaps even masked, by environmental interest groups, who are allied with powerful incumbent firms in favoring state and local regulation of the industry. As James Madison predicted long ago in Federalist No. 10, if left to its own devices the state regulatory process is particularly vulnerable to the influence of powerful private interest groups. Where federal regulators also lack plenary authority to solve transmission problems, both federal and state regulators can readily fall into a cycle of evading difficult network congestion problems.
For example, the state of Connecticut has strongly opposed the Cross-Sound Cable, a 23-mile merchant transmission line that would allow Long Island Power Authority to import power from New Haven, Connecticut. Some Connecticut officials cite environmental concerns in support of their opposition to the project, such as impacts on shellfish beds and dredging operations in the New Haven Harbor; however, the project complies with all state siting and environmental statutes. The cable, already in place, was authorized to operate under a temporary emergency order issued by the Secretary of Energy following the August 2003 blackout, which was lifted in early 2004. There is reason to believe that the issue is within the jurisdiction of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), but the scope of federal authority over the matter is not clear because the FERC does not site transmission lines. Connecticut's Attorney General, backed by environmental interest groups and a major incumbent utility serving Connecticut customers (Northeast Utilities, which owns an older, parallel transmission line), threatened litigation if the Cross-Sound Cable was allowed to go live again.9
As electric power transmission illustrates, the behavior of private stakeholders is not only relevant in the market sphere, but also in the regulatory process that implements the constitutive governance of deregulated markets and the public law doctrines that frame this process. Because states retain jurisdiction over the siting of power plants and transmission lines, public law defines the range of permissible regulatory responses in state politics and thus plays a central role in framing disputes over the location and expansion of transmission lines (see Chapter 7). As in the case of California's deregulation plan, prior to the 2003 blackout, interactions between governments were a major impediment to the expansion of transmission; long-standing jurisdictional conflicts and gaps under extant public law doctrines have left both state and federal regulators unable to take action to expand transmission (an issue addressed in Chapter 8).
Focus on private interactions with governmental bodies and interactions between governmental bodies - what I collectively refer to in this book as government relations bargaining - is not a new insight for regulatory lawyers and economists. A large literature explores private bargaining with the government. Since public choice theory came into its own in the 1960s, economists and political scientists have increasingly paid attention to how private firms interact with the government. Most applications, however, focus attention on a specific moment of change - for example, a regulator's decision to regulate or deregulate, the passage of a major piece of legislation, the repeal of previous regulatory approach. Public choice theory is downright cynical about the ability of regulation to enhance social welfare. Apart from condemning capture of the regulator, the literature rarely focuses attention on the continuing and recurring interactions between private firms and the government in a deregulatory environment. However, because deregulation seldom entails the complete dismantling of government - the general literature on regulation broadly defines deregulation as including restructuring initiatives that depend on government for some implementation and oversight (Borenstein & Bushnell, 2000; Cudahy, 2002a; Hirsh, 1999)10 - such interactions regularly occur in the adoption and implementation of policies designed to enhance competition. A growing literature also explores interactions among governmental bodies, such as interactions between the federal government and states (see Chapter 3). Focusing on bargaining in the regulatory process shines light on a different kind of greed than popular critics of market transitions condemn. Rather than focus on private market greed, government relations bargaining focuses on private behavior and incentives in public ordering. Even in times of regulatory system stability, greed in politics may pose as a much of a challenge to market transactions as greed in private transactions. With deregulation and other legal transitions, however, focus on government relations bargaining brings to the fore important issues that other contractual accounts of regulation largely obfuscate.
Predominant accounts of utility regulation focus on three interrelated projects. Traditional progressive accounts view regulation as ensuring private markets do not ignore the public interest (Mitnick, 1980; Posner, 1974). Neoclassical economic approaches view regulation primarily as correcting for market failure in the interest of promoting economic efficiency or enhancing social welfare (Posner, 1974). Public choice theory focuses on the incentives and consequences of regulation (Farber & Frickey, 1991; Mashaw, 1997; Quirk, 1981). The more cynical strand of public choice embraces a "capture" thesis that sees regulators as beholden to the powerful firms they are charged with regulating (Stigler, 1971). These approaches first emphasize the ends of regulation (intentional and otherwise), and then pay attention to process only insofar as it is useful to achieving these ends.
More than 10 years ago, George Priest argued that the project of two of the predominant accounts of the origins of regulation - "public interest" theory, which sees regulation as a solution to market failure, and "public choice" theory, a strand of which views agency regulators as operating under the dominant influence of (or "captured" by) the private firms subject to regulation - are misplaced. Rather than attempt to identify a singular theory of the origins of regulation or of exogenous substantive ends, Priest (1992) imagined a research agenda in which scholars make an effort "to understand the mechanics of a change in regulatory regime before deriving a theory of it" (323). Implicit to this project is the recognition that theories of regulation place inordinate attention on the substantive content of regulation. In contrast, a research agenda that focuses on mechanism of evolution and change in regulated industries poses a fundamentally different series of questions than conventional accounts.
An account of government relations bargaining places more emphasis on such questions than conventional accounts of economic regulation, such as public interest or public choice theories. Focus on government relations bargaining is not dismissive of ends - of course they are important - but recognizes that ends are not necessarily prior (or exogenous) to the theory of regulation. Process can matter as much as ends. Rather than begin with externally generated ends, analysis of economic regulation might take on different emphasis and realize fresh insights from paying attention to process first.
The goals of regulation are numerous; however, public interest, efficiency, and pluralist preference aggregation are most prominent. Public interest theories of regulation have intuitive appeal as a starting point for understanding the goals of regulation, although at best they are ambiguous. They focus almost exclusively on the substance of regulation rather than how it evolves and or promotes stable solutions to regulatory problems. As Bruce Mitnick's (1980) extensive study of regulation puts it, "there remains no accepted definition of the phrase ['public interest'], much less an accepted operational definition offering indicators that we may use to determine empirically whether something is in the public interest" (259). Approaching regulation as a bargain challenges us to focus not only on the substance of the public interest, but also on its evolution and, in particular, its ability to promote coordinated voluntary solutions to conflicts (its "equilibria" characteristics).
In addition, a government relations bargaining approach to regulation diverges from neoclassical economic theory in that it views natural monopoly regulation not merely as an efficiency-promoting solution to market failure, but also as a negotiated equilibrium that is the product of bargaining conditions and incentives. Such an approach also departs from many public choice accounts in that it does not embrace a strong capture thesis or condemn all rent seeking; instead, it acknowledges the reality of continuing interactions between firms and the government, and the incentives faced by private firms, as strategies used by stakeholders to sustain the commitments of the incomplete contracts surrounding the firm and its institutional arrangements in an industry.
It is certainly not a new insight for regulatory law to focus on bargaining. However, discussion of regulatory contracts generally assumes that the terms of the contract are complete, or downplays the incentive implications of incompleteness for the regulatory process. The contract and the regulatory ends it reflects are assumed to exist independent of the mechanisms of regulatory evolution and enforcement. For example, Sidak and Spulber take Priest's invitation seriously to observe that regulation might be analogized to a "contract," but they interpret bargains in a legalistic manner to rely on third-party enforcement (typically courts) to deter or compensate for renegotiation (Sidak & Spulber, 1997). This approach leads them to make numerous recommendations for regulatory law, most of which rely on judicial enforcement of a preexisting substantive bargain. Most prominently, Sidak and Spulber argue that courts have a primary role to play in enforcing regulatory commitments, under both contract law principles and the Takings Clause of the U.S. Constitution, a topic to which I return in Chapter 5.
1. The scope of regulatory bargaining; Part I. Extending Incomplete Bargains from the Economics of the Firm to Public Governance: 2. Regulatory bargains and the stability of natural monopoly regulation; 3. The incompleteness of regulatory law: moving beyond the 'small world' of natural monopoly regulation; 4. Refin(anc)ing service obligations for a competitive environment; Part II. Incomplete Regulatory Bargains, Institutions, and the Role of Judicial Review in Deregulated Industries: 5. Deregulatory takings, incomplete regulatory bargains, and judicial review; 6. Incomplete regulatory tariffs and the role of courts; 7. Bargaining for state-assisted monopoly; 8. Overcoming bargaining failures in a federalist system; 9. Incomplete regulatory bargaining and the lessons for judicial review.
Posted May 31, 2005
Rossi is one of the leading legal scholars writing on regulated industries in the U.S. His account of deregulation turns the conventional wisdom on its head. Rather than blame markets for harming consumers, Rossi places some blame with government and, in particular, with 'public law'. His main suggestion is that courts pay attention to how deregulation fundamentally changes the bargaining conditions under which regulation if formed, which has implications the filed rate doctrine, federalism, etc. I am not convinced by all of his proposals (for instance, letting states take the lead in implementing deregulation seems odd to me), but Rossi has reasons to support all of them and an interesting conceptual way of shedding light on a new set of issues. Rossi is not an economist, but this book raises many questions which could be studied in a much more rigorous manner by those who have the tools, and I would recommend it especially for those looking for new and interesting questions in regulated industries.
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