Short sales took off in the Seattle area in the fourth quarter of 2011: 925 preforeclosure homes were sold. That's a whopping 46 percent increase from the same period a year earlier and represented 7.4 percent of all home sales in the area, at an average price of $245,403. Buyers of short sale homes reaped a nearly 25 percent discount off nonforeclosure homes.But one thing is certain when the hockey world convenes in Los Angeles later this month for the 2010 NHL Entry Draft, every team in the league will be trying to follow, in one way or another, the blueprint utilized by the Avalanche a year earlier. NHL, the NHL Shield, the word mark and image of the Stanley Cup and NHL Conference logos are registered trademarks of the National Hockey League. And the National Hockey League..

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