Weekend end of line for NHL
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With just a little bit of hedging, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman all but issued a drop-dead date for saving what's left of the season: this weekend.
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Few hockey purists will bemoan Wednesday&#39;s announcement that the National Hockey League has cancelled the 2005 All-Star Game in Atlanta.
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The lockout of NHL players by the league&#39;s owners moved into its eighth day today, with the stalemate expected to last for months.
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With its do-or-die deadline come and gone and no deal in sight, the NHL circled Wednesday as the day it would call off what little was left of a decimated season, The Associated Press learned Monday.
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December 5, 2004 -- THE meetings this week in Toronto be tween the NHL and the NHLPA will mark the beginning of the end, either the beginning of the end of the lockout or the beginning of the end of the NHL in any recognizable form.
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The message board in Canada&#39;s dressing room spoke volumes: Practice canceled tomorrow. No one else to beat. The next fight for these stars is with NHL owners, who are set to lock them out Wednesday night.
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First, the talking stopped. Now, the games have, too. Hockey has run out of time and tournaments. All that's left is a lockout.
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The National Hockey League and the NHL Players Association broke off talks yesterday in Toronto aimed at ending the lockout and beating a weekend deadline to save the season.
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The NHL and the players' association are taking another shot at saving the hockey season, which has been on the brink of cancellation for weeks. A two-day meeting last week produced no tangible progress toward a labor agreement. The league and the union will meet again Wednesday in Toronto, but no formal proposal will be presented by the league.
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(CP) - The NHL pulled the plug on hockey Wednesday, with an emotional Gary Bettman painting a bleak picture of a Grand Canyon-sized divide between owners and the Players&#39; Association.
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The hockey league&#39;s labor deal expires at midnight tonight, and a work stoppage threatens the entire season. By Susan Bourette | Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor.
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The weekend has arrived and the death watch on the NHL season has begun. Commissioner Gary Bettman's deadline for reaching a deal with the players' association is rapidly approaching. If there's no agreement before Monday, he is expected to pull the plug on the season that never was.
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NEW YORK - The National Hockey League will lock out its players Thursday, threatening to keep the sport off the ice for the entire 2004-05 season. The long-expected decision was approved unanimously Wednesday by NHL owners, who are demanding cost certainty, which players say would be tantamount to a salary cap...
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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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It's all over but the official announcement. The National Hockey League will formally pull the plug on the 2004-05 season tomorrow at 1 p.m. when commissioner Gary Bettman holds a news conference at a Manhattan hotel.
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A Hall of Fame induction. With the NHL headed into ruins, if it&#39;s not there already. Talk about a maddening irony. It&#39;s kind of like having the winning lottery ticket the same week the state lottery commission goes belly-up.
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EDMONTON - This NHL season died from neglect ages ago and on Tuesday it became obvious. Two wrongs make for last rites. The NHL and its players have accomplished nothing through 90 days of this lockout other