Caps Prepared For Lockout
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Capitals owner Ted Leonsis says that he recognized the building financial problems of the league back in 1999 and braced his team for the present labor impasse.
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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 players are about to receive their first lockout stipends, amounts which will work out to roughly 3.6 per cent of the average NHL salary, according to the Canadian Press.
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Seventy-five NHL players met with union leaders Tuesday to get an update on a lockout that shows no sign of ending. Among those players was Montreal&#39;s Pierre Dagenais, who has said he would be willing to disobey
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If this is hockey&#39;s Armageddon â-nd it&#39;s hard to find anyone in the NHL who doesn&#39;t view the current 61-day owners&#39; lockout in cataclysmic terms â -n Bob Goodenow is the beast who will bear much of the
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The Hockey Hall of Fame is set to welcome one of its finest classes ever. Mark Messier, Ron Francis, Al MacInnis and Scott Stevens will go in as players this fall, while NHL executive Jim Gregory will enter as a builder.
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The Capitals will be joined on their road trip by 16 fathers, and one father-in-law, for this weekend's critical games against the Panthers and the Lightning.
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Although newly acquired defenseman Milan Jurcina is considered to be a bit of a project for the Capitals, he says he is staying positive and anxious to prove himself on the ice.
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Jocelyn Thibault and the handful of his Blackhawks teammates still in town waiting out the lockout have stepped up their workouts recently just in case there&#39;s a season.
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CAPS players have a dour outlook on this finance giant.
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Lou Lamoriello, long one of the NHL's shrewdest front-office managers, neatly disposed of more than $7.5 million in salary cap space last week, allowing the Devils to lock up some of their key free agents (Brian Gionta, three years/$12 million, among them), and save the 16Ws from what portended to be a season scuttled by the balance-sheet blues.
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ASHBURN, Va.  -- If the NHL allowed goaltenders to be captains, Olie Kolzig would have been wearing the "C" on his jersey for several years already. As it is, the Washington Capitals announced Wednesday that Chris Clark will be the team's on-ice leader this season -- a role he fully expects to...
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National Hockey League owners will meet with representatives from the players union on Thursday in what is seen as a final bid to end a lockout and save the NHL season.
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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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With Olie Kolzig injured, Brent Johnson has a chance to prove himself by leading the struggling Capitals back into the playoff picture.
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Now that the preliminaries are over, Team USA appears ready for the World Cup of Hockey.
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Twenty-four days into the NHL lockout, Capitals center Jeff Halern signs with a Swiss League team.