NHL season in jeopardy as players locked out
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The fears of many hockey fans came true on Wednesday, with the NHL board of governors giving unanimous support to a player lockout.
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NEW YORK - The National Hockey League will lock out its players Thursday, threatening to keep the sport off the ice for the entire 2004-05 season. The long-expected decision was approved unanimously Wednesday by NHL owners, who are demanding cost certainty, which players say would be tantamount to a salary cap...
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Representative of NHL owners and locked  out players met for nine hours Thursday, in a final desperate  bid to end a bitter labor dispute and salvage the ice hockey  season.
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The National Hockey League will lock out its players Thursday, starting a work stoppage that threatens to keep the sport off the ice for the entire 2004-05 season.
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The National Hockey League canceled  its season on Wednesday unable to reach a new collective  bargaining agreement with locked out players, becoming the  first North American professional sports league to lose an  entire schedule due to a labor dispute.
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From veteran players who won't collect their paychecks to young prospects who had hoped to earn a roster spot, the NHL lockout will touch everyone in the organization.
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When the National Hockey League announced it was locking out its players when the collective-bargaining agreement expired Sept. 15, it had an immediate impact on the league's staff, which was trimmed by roughly 50 percent.
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NHL commissioner Gary Bettman has come in for fierce criticism following a meeting of locked-out players. The NHL Players Assocation leaders briefed 74 players on Tuesday about the team owners&#39; lockout which
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Hopes for an NHL season were left  hanging by a thread Thursday as players presented a proposal  that included a massive 24 percent rollback in salaries but did  not address owners' main demand for cost certainty.
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STOCKHOLM (Sports Network) - In the wake of the NHL  lockout, three more players from the league have opted to play  overseas.
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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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The NHL Players&#39; Association will pay out between $29 million and $44 million US in lockout pay this season. The payments will start this month with more than 730 players getting $10,000 each for November and another $10,000 for December.
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The lockout of ice hockey players by the National Hockey League is sending a chill through US arena operators who rely on professional hockey as a vital audience puller.
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NHL union head Bob Goodenow said Tuesday that locked-out players remain unified and that the season is in serious jeopardy. âIâm hopeful that there will be a season, but
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The lockout that followed the expiration Sept. 15 of the collective bargaining agreement between the NHL and the NHL Players&#39; Association places the entire 82-game season in jeopardy.
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The National Hockey League appeared to  be one day away from canceling its season due to a labor  dispute after owners rejected a salary cap proposal from  locked-out players.
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Hopes for an NHL season were left  hanging by a thread on Thursday as players presented a proposal  that included a massive 24 percent rollback in salaries but did  not address owners' main demand for cost certainty.