PM offers to help resolve lockout
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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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Representatives for team owners and  locked-out players met under a cloak of secrecy Wednesday, with  no indication if the two sides had come closer to resolving the  labor dispute threatening to wipe out the entire ice hockey  season.
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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 (1600 GMT) Wednesday or it's  commissioner Gary Bettman will cancel the 2004/05 season.
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Five hours of talks Tuesday brought owners and players no closer to resolving labor disagreements that will lead to a lockout when the collective bargaining agreement ends Sept. 15.
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TORONTO - An NHL lockout is a virtual certainty when the collective bargaining agreement between owners and players expires at 12:01 a.m. Thursday...
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A look at European hockey rosters shows that Sweden&#39;s MoDo might have benefited the most from the NHL&#39;s lockout. By Karl Gehring, AP/The Denver Post.
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The NHL and the players' association appeared headed toward a lockout when talks broke off yesterday after the union's first new proposal in nearly a year.
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The NHL Players&#39; Association handed the NHL a strong proposal Thursday it believes can not only salvage the season but more importantly address all of the league&#39;s economic issues.
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The NHL players&#39; association will begin issuing lockout pay to more than 730 players. Payments will start this month, and players will get $10,000 each for November and another $10,000 for December, with subsequent
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NEW YORK - The NHL and the playersâ association will resume talks next week in an effort to end the 78-day lockout and save the season.
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Toronto - It&#39;s getting so late in the game, so to speak, Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin has offered federal mediation as a last-ditch possibility.
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Seeking to end the lockout, the players association on Thursday offered an immediate pay reduction of 24 percent and other concessions to the N.H.L.
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On the 77th day of the NHL lockout and with the season in jeopardy, the league and players union announced yesterday that they would hold negotiations next week for the first time since Sept.
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An NHL lockout nine weeks old won&#39;t end any time soon unless owners show some willingness to negotiate, agents said after a meeting with the players&#39; union.
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The NHL and the players' association will resume talks next week in an effort to end the 78-day lockout and save the season.
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The NHL and the players&#39; association appeared headed toward a lockout when talks broke off yesterday after the union&#39;s first new proposal in nearly a year.
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In an effort to end the three-month-old NHL lockout, the NHL Players&#39; Association yesterday offered significant and sweeping concessions, highlighted by an immediate 24 percent rollback of