League Cancels Hockey Season in Labor Battle
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The N.H.L. becomes the first major pro sports league in North America to lose an entire season to a labor dispute.
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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 NHL plans to reject the players&#39; association&#39;s latest collective bargaining agreement proposal today in Toronto, and the 2004-05 season appears destined for cancellation.
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BEIJING, Dec. 15 -- The National Hockey League has slipped closer towards losing - for the first time - a season to a labor dispute.
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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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America's ice hockey league cancels the season over player pay - a first in American sports history.
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No progress doesn't mean no hockey -- at least not yet. NHL labor talks ended yesterday after a four-hour meeting, without a resolution or a historic announcement that the season has been lost.
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The league, which has been shut down since Sept. 15 by a lockout, announced the 2005 All-Star Game scheduled for Feb. 15 in Atlanta has been canceled.
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The NHL All-Star game, originally scheduled to be played February 12th and 13th at the Philips Arena in Atlanta, has been canceled by the league.
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Highlights from a chronology of events in the NHL lockout, which came to a head Wednesday when the league canceled the season:
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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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The National Hockey League, unable to  reach a new pay agreement with its locked-out players, canceled  the rest of its season Wednesday.
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Barring a last-second miracle, NHL  commissioner Gary Bettman will officially cancel the season  Wednesday for the league to earn an unwanted place in sporting  history.
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The final could be the last ice hockey played in North America for a while, with NHL owners threatening to lock out players if a new Collective Bargaining Agreement is not in place by the time the existing labor deal expires on September 15.
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The NHL Board of Governors will meet Jan. 14, when commissioner Gary Bettman could seek permission to call off the 2004-05 season. If a collective bargaining agreement hasn't been reached with the players association by then, the lockout will probably cause the cancellation of the 2004-05 season. Bettman has resisted announcing a drop-dead date to call off the season. Bettman ...
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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 hockey-mad Canadians, tickets to an NHL game are the ultimate Christmas gift. This year, though, they are worthless after NHL owners locked out players in a labor dispute