NHL to seek cap in counter-proposal
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The NHL intends to reject the Players&#39; Association&#39;s latest proposal and counter with one &quot;consistent with our mandate,&quot; NHL executive vice president Bill Daly wrote in a Dec. 12 memorandum to all 30 member clubs.
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The dynamic 24 percent payroll rollback proposed by the NHL Players Association last week was simply another gambit in the NHL&#39;s labor dispute.
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Barring a last-minute contract settlement, National Hockey League owners plan to authorize a lockout of players tomorrow after the current labor agreement expires.
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The NHL salary cap will rise to $50.3 million per team next season, an increase of $6.3 million from last season, the league and players' union announced Friday.
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TORONTO -- The NHL won&#39;t take a second look at the NHL Players&#39; Association&#39;s offer to save the season. In an eight-page memo obtained by TSN yesterday, NHL VP Bill Daly outlined why the league is going to
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The NHL and the players' association are taking another shot at saving the hockey season, which has seemingly been on the brink of cancellation for weeks.
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National Hockey League team owners and  players appear poised to enter long contract negotiations  Thursday in a last-ditch bid to start the season on schedule.
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The one-time offer does not include a salary cap and owners will make a counter-offer Tuesday. TORONTO -- The ball is in the NHL&#39;s court now.
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Hopes for an NHL season were left  hanging by a thread on Thursday as players presented a proposal  that included a massive 24 percent rollback in salaries but did  not address owners' main demand for cost certainty.
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The entire ice hockey season could be lost to the dispute over salary capping.
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NEW YORK (CP) - It took less than an hour for the NHL to reject an NHL Players' Association counter-proposal to end the lockout Tuesday night.
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Gary Bettman and the NHL return to the negotiating table with the players&#39; association today in Toronto, but the league is expected to formally reject the offer made by the union last Thursday.
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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.
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The NHL and the players' association were still talking. With the season on the brink of being canceled, negotiations were planned Thursday night in New York with the chance of another get-together Friday.
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NEW YORK -- The NHL Players&#39; Association is working on a proposal that will see players give up serious concessions in a bid to salvage the season.
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Contract negotiations between the National Hockey League and the NHL Players&#39; Association hit a boiling point yesterday when a league official accused the union of wanting a lockout.
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The National Hockey League brain trust has long maintained that in order to forge a new collective bargaining agreement with the NHL Players Association, it would need cost certainty -- which means teams' spending for players' salaries must be tied to revenues. In a nutshell, the hard line has been no cap, no hockey season in 2004-05.