When it comes to laying bets, bookmakers are very suspicious about large bets on unlikely events, and in general will refuse very large bets.

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In this era, when powerful board members can throw out a chairman, as they've done at Coca-Cola, Kodak, General Motors and Mattel, they can refuse to go along with handing over the reins.

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Pominville has a partial no-trade clause in his contract and appears to have handed a list of teams he'd refuse to play for to general manager Darcy Regier.

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