Bettman says &#39;season is likely slipping away&#39;
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National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman doesn&#39;t appear optimistic that the current player lockout will end soon, according to a televised report.
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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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Commissioner Gary Bettman warned that the season could be canceled if the outlines of an accord were not in place by the weekend.
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NHL commissioner Gary Bettman doesn&#39;t know it yet, but I think I represent his worst nightmare. I have followed his league for years.
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The Flyers star told Fox Sports&#39; Best Damn Sports Show Period last night that there&#39;s not going to be a season and demanded union head Bob Goodenow and NHL commissioner Gary Bettman to negotiate.
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It has long been the National Hockey League Players&#39; Association position that it&#39;s the league&#39;s owners that are driving the lockout bus, that commissioner Gary Bettman has staked his reputation
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The hockey season started early this year and, after two entertaining weeks of the World Cup, it ends for who knows how long. Despite the impending announcement of an NHL lockout today
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Commissioner Gary Bettman, citing $1.8 billion in losses by N.H.L. owners over the last decade, announced a lockout Wednesday, the second in the last decade.
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ANAHEIM, California  - NHL commissioner Gary Bettman conceded the league faces big challenges in gaining the major network television exposure it covets in the United States but that new technology will help attract new fans.
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TORONTO -- Back to you, Gary Bettman. Call it a sacrifice. Call it an attempt to save the season. Call it a public relations move, if you&#39;d like.
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RALEIGH, North Carolina  - There will be no  National Hockey League season unless a deal to resolve a labor  dispute with the players' union is in the offing by this  weekend, Commissioner Gary Bettman said Wednesday.
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NEW YORK - It'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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NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman all but killed the 2004-05 season yesterday. Not only did club owners reject the players&#39; union offer to take a 24 percent pay reduction, but Bettman also put a
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With no miracle save in sight, the NHL is making plans to officially cancel its season on Tuesday.
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With the Knicks shedding assistant coaches like a volcano emits warning rumbles, and the Nets reverting back to the bad old days, it could be a long winter for New York.
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The entire ice hockey season could be lost to the dispute over salary capping.
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National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman, painting a bleak picture of the league's economic state, yesterday locked out players from training camps, which were to open this week, and cast doubt on the prospects for a 2004-05 season because of severe differences with the league's Players' Association.