Nhl Players Seek Summit ; League Accepts Invitation to a Meeting ...
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After nearly three months of silence, the NHL and its players finally are going to start talking again. The NHL Players&#39; Association made the first step Thursday by inviting NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and
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NHL Players Association President Bob Goodenow gestures while speaking at a press conference after meeting with NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman at the NHL offices in Toronto, December 14, 2004.
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Members of the NHL Players Association are meeting in Toronto today to discuss the seven-week-old hockey lockout. Some 70 to 80 player reps are expected at the meeting, who will then brief their teammates back home.
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TORONTO (CP) - The NHL Players&#39; Association is waiting for the NHL to pick up the phone and resume collective bargaining talks.
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The NHL and the players' association will resume talks this week in a bid to save the season -- and they'll meet yet again without commissioner Gary Bettman or union head Bob Goodenow.
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TORONTO (CP) - The NHL Players&#39; Association believes its new proposal has the goods to salvage the NHL season. But the offer won&#39;t connect player costs to league revenues - a salary cap - when the NHL&#39;s leadership sees it for the first time Thursday.
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The NHL players' association is taking its case public.
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The NHL Players Association is gathering its players representatives in Toronto for discussions Tuesday, an information session that, when finished, could resemble the biggest pep rally this side of Friday nights in South Bend.
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Hopes of salvaging the NHL season  appeared to vanish when representatives for team owners and  locked-out players ended Thursday's meeting without an  agreement, and with no plans for further talks.
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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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The NHL and the players&#39; association will resume talks next week in an effort to end the 78-day lockout and save the season. After nearly three months of silence on and off the ice
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The National Hockey League Players&#39; Association has invited the NHL to the bargaining table next week in Toronto in order to present a new proposal and end an almost three-month stalemate in negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement.
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As many as 60 National Hockey League agents, including those representing the top players in the game, will descend on a Chicago hotel meeting room Wednesday for a tÃªte-Ã -tÃªte with executives
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Predators owner Craig Leipold and representatives of the local group hoping to keep the team in Nashville met Wednesday with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman.
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The NHL and the players' association met for talks Wednesday, but tried to keep the focus on the World Cup of Hockey.
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Next Thursday and Friday NHL executives, including commissioner Gary Bettman, will meet with their counterparts from the National Hockey League Players&#39; Association in Toronto to determine the fate of the NHL season.
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NEW YORK (Sports Network) - After sitting out the last five  negotiating sessions of the National Hockey League labor  strife, commissioner Gary Bettman and NHLPA executive director  Bob Goodenow will re-join the talks Thursday.