Both sides reject hockey proposals
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The talks lasted about 3 1/2 hours with the league making a one-hour presentation on its counter-proposal, which included a salary cap.
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The National Hockey League Players&#39; Association has invited the NHL to the bargaining table next week in Toronto in order to present a new proposal and end an almost three-month stalemate in negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement.
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Robert Esche&#39;s tone over the past three months has slowly gone from angry to sad. On Tuesday -- after the National Hockey League owners and players each rejected a proposal for a new collective bargaining
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The N.H.L. appears poised to reject a proposal made by the players union, which included a 24 percent reduction in pay and other concessions but not a hard salary cap.
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TORONTO - The NHL and the playersâ association appeared headed toward a lockout when talks broke off Thursday after the unionâs first new proposal in nearly a year.
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A look at key points in the NHL's proposal Wednesday to the NHL Players' Association:
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Talks between team owners and  locked-out players broke off without agreement Thursday,  leaving hopes for an ice hockey season hanging by a thread.
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One day after the NHL players' association rejected the league's latest salary-cap proposal, the sides met again in what might have been the last chance to save the hockey season.
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - Prime Minister Paul Martin offered to help resolve the NHL labour dispute, but was turned down. Martin told CBC Television that both the NHL and NHL Players&#39; Association declined unspecified
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No progress doesn't mean no hockey &#151; at least not yet. NHL labor talks ended Friday after a four-hour meeting, without a resolution or a historic announcement that the season has been lost.
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The NHL and the Players Association did not deliver an early Christmas present to fans across North America. The NHL Players Association and the league both rejected counter-proposals during a three-hour meeting in Toronto on Tuesday.
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During a negotiating session today in Toronto, NHL owners are expected to turn thumbs-down on last week&#39;s proposal from the NHL Players Association.
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Negotiations between the NHL and its players have stumbled over the league&#39;s salary cap proposal, with recriminations over the numbers being thrown around.
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I said hockey. You know, the NHL. The game played on ice that&#39;s currently on ice. Hockey, for gosh sakes. Anyway, NHL players, locked out by club owners over collective-bargaining issues, offered
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Any hope of saving the NHL season hinges on whether the next proposal by the players' association stirs serious negotiating.
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Rangers have rejected a bid from Newcastle United for Jean-Alain Boumsong - and have revealed their disappointment at the timing of the approach.
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The NHL's latest salary-cap proposal to end the seasonlong lockout was rejected yesterday by the players' union, which came back with its own idea: Bring commissioner Gary Bettman to the bargaining table.