No Sign of Last-Minute Push to Salvage N.H.L. Season
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If there was any contact between the league and the players on Saturday, it was not made public by their official spokesmen.
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It&#39;s been a week without progress in the NHL lockout. So far, there have been no overtures from the league or the players to resume talks to save a season that is already starting to slip away.
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In another sign the NHL season is slipping away, the league yesterday canceled its All-Star Game because of the lockout. No regular-season games have been played since the season was scheduled to begin Oct.
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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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It may be several more weeks before the 2004-05 NHL season officially dies. But barring an utter collapse in the resolve of locked-out players, any real hope the league will play this season disappeared yesterday.
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The National Hockey League and its  players ended three days of labor talks in an apparent deadlock  on Thursday, with little progress seen in avoiding a lockout by  team owners later this month.
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TORONTO (Sports Network) - As the clock ticks down on hope  of any semblance of a season, the National Hockey League wants  to hold talks with the Players' Association in the very near  future.
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Thursday&#39;s collective bargaining meeting between the NHL and NHLPA lasted only four hours, but it&#39;s still unknown if anything came out of it to save the 2004-05 season.
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For hockey fans, this winter might just be the coldest, longest yet. As expected, no agreement has been reached between National Hockey League owners and players, and at midnight last night a decade-old collective bargaining agreement expired with no new deal in sight and the upcoming season on the brink of nonexistence.
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NEW YORK (Sports Network) - The National Hockey League  labor talks concluded Friday after roughly four hours, and the  prospects for a season appear to be unlikely. Both sides  reported no progress in negotiations toward the lockout's  conclusion.
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Man, is it quiet. With just over two weeks to go before the NHL trade deadline, general managers are moving little more than office furniture (tossing desk chairs in frustration?), further underscoring that the new collective bargaining agreement has turned the building of roster chemistry into strictly a midsummer exercise around free agency.
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There just might be some hope for the hockey season. While the NHL Players Association has been denying it is not currently preparing a new proposal designed to at least reopen talks with the league, the rumor won't go away.
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Negotiations broke off Thursday between the N.H.L. and its Players Association as hope dwindled for saving even a fragment of the season.
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With less than a month remaining before the current collective bargaining agreement expires, representatives for the NHL and the Players&#39; Association met for nearly 4 1/2 hours yesterday without making any progress on a new CBA.
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Hopes of saving the National Hockey League season all but vanished Tuesday when players and team owners rejected proposals to end the labor dispute.
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The N.H.L. and its locked-out players union negotiated again on Thursday at a hotel in Manhattan to try to save a season on the brink of cancellation.
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RALEIGH - Itâs about to strike midnight on North Carolina Stateâs football team unless it can deliver tonight. The Wolfpack is one loss away from elimination from bowl consideration when it plays its home finale against No.