No Savior of League Lockout, Says &#39;Great One&#39;
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Wayne Gretzky is an ice hockey god to millions of Canadians but even the &quot;Great One&quot; is unable to offer a solution to the labor dispute now threatening to wipe out the entire NHL season.
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - An NHL lockout appears almost unavoidable after the league swiftly rejected the NHL Players&#39; Association&#39;s latest offer on Thursday.
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TORONTO - The NHL and the playersâ association appeared headed toward a lockout when talks broke off Thursday after the unionâs first new proposal in nearly a year.
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I said hockey. You know, the NHL. The game played on ice that&#39;s currently on ice. Hockey, for gosh sakes. Anyway, NHL players, locked out by club owners over collective-bargaining issues, offered
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As unions go, you can't find a better bunch of corporate clowns than the NHL leadership -- you remember, the Just Say No Players Association. They are the guys who went into the 2004-05 lockout without a Plan B, only to see their approach lead to a season surrendered to obstinacy, stupidity, and to be kind, abject mule-headedness.
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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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CHICAGO -- There was no Chicago Hope yesterday. If there was any thought that NHL agents might be able to help solve the NHL lockout, it was quickly crushed when agent Mark Gandler declared there won&#39;t be a season.
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The NHL and the players&#39; association appeared headed toward a lockout when talks broke off Thursday after the union&#39;s first new proposal in nearly a year.
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Wayne Gretzky is an ice hockey god to  millions of Canadians but even the "Great One" is unable to  offer a solution to the labor dispute now threatening to wipe  out the entire NHL season.
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New York, NY (Sports Network) - With no sign that the lockout of its players will end in the near future, the National Hockey League has cancelled the 2005 All-Star Game.
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Commissioner Gary Bettman summed up the NHL&#39;s decision to lock out its players in five words Wednesday. &quot;We are out of gas,&quot; Bettman said in New York after the league&#39;s Board of Governors offered unanimous
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That could be the common refrain heard by NHL Players Association executive director Bob Goodenow today when the union&#39;s executive committee and representatives of the 30 clubs meet at a Toronto hotel.
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The day before the regular season was supposed to open, the National Hockey League rebuked a team official yesterday for his comments about the league&#39;s strategy in its labor lockout, its second in a decade.
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It may be several more weeks before the 2004-05 NHL season officially dies. But barring an utter collapse in the resolve of locked-out players, any real hope the league will play this season disappeared yesterday.
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Toronto, ON (Sports Network) - A lockout for the National Hockey League looks to be inevitable after Thursday&#39;s proposal from the NHLPA did little to narrow the impasse between the owners and players.
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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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One professional hockey player says the NHL players&#39; association offer to end a lockout is ``a lot of money out of a guy&#39;s pocket to be giving up.