From: Gord Ace Payne To: Larry Lavitt Subject: FW: Congratulations hotHOCKEY hotSPORTS Award Winner, 10/09/00! Date: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 11:15 AM -----Original Message----- From: hotHOCKEY [mailto:links@hothockey.com] Sent: October 10, 2000 9:37 AM To: commish@nshl.com Subject: Congratulations hotHOCKEY hotSPORTS Award Winner, 10/09/00! Congratulations! Your website has been selected as a hotHOCKEY hotSPORTS Award winner for the week of October 9, 2000. Thanks to suggestions provided by hotHOCKEY's visitors and the obvious dedication that you have made to your site, it goes without saying that this award is well deserved. Every week, each sports-related portal that make up hotSPORTSnetworks award sites within its directory. At hotHOCKEY, five such sites are selected every Monday. To view your award listing, please visit http://www.hotHOCKEY.com/links/_hotSPORTS_Award_Winners/. In addition, if you were lucky enough to be selected as the "Site of the Week," a further listing will appear on the front page of our site, at http://www.hotHOCKEY.com. At the end of this week, your site will be permanently stored in the hotHOCKEY hotSPORTS Awards archives section at http://www.hotHOCKEY.com/links/_hotSPORTS_Award_Winners/Archives/. As an award winner, we invite you to publicize your accomplishment by placing the hotHOCKEY hotSPORTS Award button on your site. The following code enables you to do just that:

hotHOCKEY This code will embed the default hotSPORTS Award button, one with a green background. To better match your site, we also offer buttons in blue, red, and maroon. To view these styles and find out how to adjust your code to these specifications, please visit http://www.hotHOCKEY.com/hsnawards/code.shtml. Once more, congratulations on your efforts. hotHOCKEY Awards Committee Welcome To The Global Arena http://www.hotHOCKEY.com Part Of hotSPORTSnetworks http://www.hotSPORTSnetworks.com