Wilstein: NHL Won't Be Widely Missed
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The essential question facing NHL owners and locked-out players is: Who cares?
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The Mets&#39; objective, Fred Wilpon said last winter and into the spring, was to play meaningful games late into the season. The owner was confident his revamped team could compete for first place
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Maxime Talbot loves playing hockey and, perhaps even more, talking about it. The enjoyment he gets from playing the sport is difficult to disguise.
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Szymon Szemberg, the man in charge of media relations for the International Ice Hockey Federation, can think of only two reasons Mike Modano would want to play in Italy should an NHL lockout occur.
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The New York Islanders have become the NHL's version of a three-ring circus &#151; and the spotlight keeps shining on the guys in net.
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Now is the time for looking into the abyss at the World Cup of Hockey. The team that can do so without flinching and step back three times can call itself the finest hockey team in the world.
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Las Vegas, which will host this yearâs N.B.A. All-Star Game next weekend, wants to showcase itself as worthy of becoming a full-time major league city.
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Toronto Sun. They&#39;re whistling a new tune in the lockout trenches, not quite the Hockey Night In Canada theme, but more pleasant to the ears than three months of bombast.
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TORONTO - Now, for the first time, there is some hope that the NHL season will not be cancelled. Now, for the first time, there is bound to be significant internal pressure
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The weekend has arrived and the death watch on the NHL season has begun. Commissioner Gary Bettman's deadline for reaching a deal with the players' association is rapidly approaching. If there's no agreement before Monday, he is expected to pull the plug on the season that never was.
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Eventually, they&#39;ll play hockey again. Maybe the owners will get their way and institute a salary cap. Maybe the players will get their way and a luxury tax will be imposed.
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Evgeni Malkin stole the spotlight from Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin.
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A plan to play some home games in Toronto is being portrayed by Buffalo Bills officials not as a threat, but as the best hope for the Bills to remain in western New York.
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A CEO says the NHL lockout shows how investors should "recognize opportunities for what they are."
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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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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.
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The NHL players' association is taking its case public.