NHL Players Offer to Cut Pay in First Meeting
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NHL players yesterday offered to cut existing player contracts by 24 percent, a collective pay reduction of approximately a half-billion dollars over three years, in an attempt to break the deadlock with owners that has resulted in the cancellation of the
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The National Hockey League has  delivered a final salary offer to locked out players that must  be accepted by 11 a.m. EST Wednesday or its commissioner, Gary  Bettman, will cancel the 2004/05 season.
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Negotiators for the NHL and its players' union discussed various topics in their first face-to-face meeting in over a month, but the league's labor problems were not the focus of the talks.
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The NHL players' association offers an immediate 24 percent rollback of salaries Thursday as the centerpiece of a new proposal handed to the league in an effort to end the lockout.
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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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Any hope of salvaging part of the NHL season likely was shattered last night when talks between the league and the players' association broke off in New York after four hours following the NHL's presentation of a proposal that contained a salary cap.
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The leaders of the National Hockey League have slammed the door on players, instituting a lockout that began at 12:01 this morning, upon the expiration of the 10-year-old collective bargaining
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Gary Bettman has already won the first stare-down of the NHL lockout. He got the NHL Players&#39; Association to make the first move -- a new offer -- in an attempt to open negotiations that have been stalled since Sept.
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The NHL players&#39; union insists its proposed salary rollback will dramatically change the league&#39;s economics. It remains to be seen whether that&#39;s enough to persuade
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The locked-out National Hockey League players union offered to cut salaries by 24 percent and place a tax of up to 60 percent on high-end payrolls in the first talks with management in three months.
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NHL players emerged Tuesday from a four-hour meeting united behind union leadership in the nearly 7-week-old lockout. By Adrian Wyld, AP.
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Representative of NHL owners and locked  out players met for nine hours Thursday, in a final desperate  bid to end a bitter labor dispute and salvage the ice hockey  season.
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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 could be the last chance to save the hockey season.
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A look at key points in the NHL's proposal Wednesday to the NHL Players' Association:
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The NHL and the NHLPA have planned a meeting for December 9th in Toronto to discuss the NHLPAâs new proposal for a new collective bargaining agreement.
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Ottawa, ON (Sports Network) - The negotiations to save the National Hockey League from a work stoppage seemed to take a turn for the worse on Thursday.
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All those players who have griped about how little progress has been made toward reaching a settlement to end the NHL lockout will have the opportunity to have their voices heard today.