Recchi, mates shocked at NHL dismissal of union&#39;s offer
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Like his colleagues, Penguins winger Mark Recchi figured the NHL Players&#39; Association made a fairly dramatic proposal last Thursday.
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When NHL commissioner Gary Bettman announced on September 15 that the league had failed to reach a new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) and would lock out the players it drove an icy spike through the hearts of hockey-mad Canadians.
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The NHL and the players' association appeared headed toward a lockout when talks broke off yesterday after the union's first new proposal in nearly a year.
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The NHL season is finally cancelled after players and owners fail to reach a last-ditch agreement.
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The NHL reportedly will reject the latest proposal from the players' union that was meant to end the lockout and salvage the season.
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TORONTO -- National Hockey League labor talks came to a halt Tuesday after each side rejected the other&#39;s proposal. The talks lasted more than three hours, with the league making a one-hour presentation on
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The National Hockey League appears poised to reject a proposal made last Thursday by the players union, which included a 24 percent reduction in pay and other concessions but not a hard salary cap.
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Gary Bettman and the NHL return to the negotiating table with the players&#39; association today in Toronto, but the league is expected to formally reject the offer made by the union last 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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The National Hockey League appeared to  be one day away from cancelling its season due to a labor  dispute after owners rejected a salary cap proposal from  locked-out players.
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A top-level hockey agent who has been around the game since the days of the World Hockey Association said over the weekend he was sure the NHL would reject the players&#39; offer.
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In an effort to end the three-month-old NHL lockout, the NHL Players&#39; Association yesterday offered significant and sweeping concessions, highlighted by an immediate 24 percent rollback of
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&quot;Please solve this because I don&#39;t want to be watching Trading Places on Saturday night.&quot;. That was from David Whittle, a hockey fan out of Hamilton, adding a personal touch of levity - and we think he meant
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The NHL reportedly will reject the latest proposal from the players&#39; union that was meant to put an end to the lockout and salvage the season.
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Bruins owner Jeremy Jacobs has been active in trying to forge a new collective bargaining agreement with the National Hockey League Players Association. Jacobs believes hockey is sick and he agrees with commissioner Gary Bettman that there is a desperate need to retool the system.
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TORONTO -- Some of his former teammates said he didn&#39;t want to come. People close to the negotiations were doubtful he would come.
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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.