Too early to put season on ice
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Big winds this week kicked up quite a sea in our region, where the fishing before the storm was fairly solid. Even with the cold front and all the rain, the ocean temperature has not cooled enough to drive the migrants out, and excellent fishing takes place in October, especially in southern waters.
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When the clock strikes midnight as Wednesday becomes Thursday, the NHL&#39;s collective bargaining agreement will expire. It begins when the arena ice should be carved up by players&#39; skates during practice, but is still fresh.
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The NHL and the Players Association did not deliver an early Christmas present to fans across North America. The NHL Players Association and the league both rejected counter-proposals during a three-hour meeting in Toronto on Tuesday.
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NEW YORK : The National Hockey League was in the deep freeze, with no indication that the league&#39;s labor woes could be resolved in time to save any of the 2004-05 season.
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For the second time in 10 years, the NHL has closed its doors. In 1994, we were a nation unprepared - how do you fill the void of turning the TV on once or twice a winter for five minutes or so to watch a game?
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The final days of summer are ticking down on the hockey clock -- some training camps open as early as Sept. 10 -- and a sprinkling of bigger-name free agents remain on the open market.
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A hockey league formed for locked-out NHL players called off some preseason games but will proceed with its regular season, which is to start Oct. 7. The Original Stars Hockey League, however
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New York, NY (Sports Network) - After meeting with the Board of Governors Wednesday, National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announced that a lockout of the players will begin at midnight (et.
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Come midnight EDT on Wednesday night, barring a miracle, the NHL lockout will finally begin. Few believe it will end any time soon.
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NEW YORK Nov 3, 2004 - In another sign the NHL season is slipping away, the league canceled its All-Star game Wednesday because of the lockout.
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On the eve of the scheduled start of the new NHL season, there is still no sign of the owners&#39; lockout of players being resolved.
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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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By Barry Adams, The Wisconsin State Journal  Feb. 5--Craig Schlicht knows firsthand about the cruelty of a Wisconsin winter.   First, he waited, as it took until Jan. 18 for enough ice to form to safely pull his 4-by-8-foot shanty onto Lake Waubesa.
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The prospects of saving the National Hockey League (NHL) season are grim and unless owners and players start talking soon to end a lockout the 2005-2006 season is also at risk, Montreal&#39;s Saku Koivu said.
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Geopolitically, the choice made sense. How could they not give the Winter Games to a place whose czar once declared that his two best generals were January and February? The Russians, who have more snow and ice than any country on the planet, have never staged this quadrennial sleighride. Clearly, they were overdue. But when the International Olympic Committee tapped ...
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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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In another sign the NHL season is slipping away, the league canceled its All-Star Game because of the lockout. The season was supposed to have begun Oct. 13.