YORIO: NHL season is in Bettman&#39;s hands
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Gary Bettman, the NHL season is now in your hands. And because you have said repeatedly that saving this season isn&#39;ta concern of yours, that can&#39;t be good news for fans.
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The NHL is growing and heading in the right direction as it opens its second post-lockout season, commissioner Gary Bettman said Wednesday night.
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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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TORONTO -- Can the season be saved? That&#39;s the $2-billion question after NHL Players&#39; Association executive director Bob Goodenow invited commissioner Gary Bettman to a two-day bargaining session here next
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As the NHL and NHL Players&#39; Association dicker, it&#39;s full steam ahead for the Original Stars Hockey League. The four-on-four league is set to begin next Friday with a
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Toronto, ON (Sports Network) - NHL commissioner Gary Bettman acknowledged Thursday that one segment of the latest proposal from the players&#39; union was significant, but stressed that much more lies ahead in solving the league&#39;s fiscal problems.
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When NHL commissioner Gary Bettman confirmed yesterday the start of a player lockout that had loomed for months, he also issued a stern warning to the players on the other side of the labor conflict.
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Gary Bettman has already won the first stare-down of the NHL lockout. He got the NHL Players&#39; Association to make the first move -- a new offer -- in an attempt to open negotiations that have been stalled since Sept.
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Hockey fans are looking to Toronto today, as NHL owners and players&#39; representatives meet for what many believe is their last chance to put the game back on the ice this season.
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National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman, painting a bleak picture of the league&#39;s economic state, yesterday locked out players
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A day after blasting NHL commissioner Gary Bettman to the Detroit Free Press, Red Wings&#39; defenceman Chris Chelios has come up with who he thinks is an ideal replacement.
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The response of fans and media to Thursday&#39;s unexpected request from NHLPA executive director Bob Goodenow for a Dec. 9 meeting with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman has been subdued, as was the response when Bettman agreed to the meeting.
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National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman reiterated the North American league&#39;s position that it won&#39;t consider the players&#39; proposed luxury tax to end their labor impasse.
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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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Given the current state of the National Hockey League, it's a giant long shot if the game comes back for any part of the 2004-05 season. What the product will look like when it does resume remains to be seen. Will the 82-game season be shortened? It certainly should be. Will they find a way to legislate the trap out ...
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So now we have it. A date. A deadline. Tomorrow at 1 p.m., just about one rink-length to the west of Times Square, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman finally will step up to a hotel podium and put a merciful end to the 2004-05 season that never was.
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE- - The National Hockey League Players&#39; Association extended an olive branch to commissioner Gary Bettman on Thursday, inviting the league back to the negotiating table so it can examine a new proposal from the union.