NHL / Canadians face hockey-less holiday season
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For hockey-mad Canadians, tickets to an NHL game are the ultimate Christmas gift. This year, though, they were worthless after NHL owners locked out players in a labor dispute that is threatening to wipe out an entire season.
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TORONTO -- Get ready for Hockey Not in Canada this year. Ottawa Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson told Sun Media following yesterday&#39;s NHL Players Association meeting he expects the season to be cancelled
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NEW YORK - No shots, no saves, no goals. The National Hockey League locked out its players Thursday, threatening to keep the sport off the ice for the entire 2004-05 season and perhaps beyond in an effort by management to gain massive economic change...
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BEIJING, Dec. 15 -- The National Hockey League has slipped closer towards losing - for the first time - a season to a labor dispute.
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There is no secret that time is running out to save the hockey season. How the NHL and the players' association are working to prevent that has become a very big mystery.
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Thereâs no crying in baseball - or hockey for that matter â-ut it appears there can be rollbacks in CBA negotiating. Surely the most shocking element of the NHLPAâs proposal to the NHL owners on Thursday
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In another sign the NHL season is slipping away, the league on Wednesday canceled its All-Star Game because of the lockout. No regular-season games have been played since the season was scheduled to begin Oct.
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If a lockout ends up canceling the season, it probably also means NHL players won&#39;t participate in the 2006 Olympics in Turin, Italy.
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With just a little bit of hedging, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman all but issued a drop-dead date for saving what's left of the season: this weekend.
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With two fruitless negotiating sessions behind them and only one month left before an NHL lockout, the league and the players association will return to the bargaining table on Tuesday.
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The NHL and the players' association broke off talks Thursday as the clock ticked down to a weekend deadline for saving what little is left of the season.
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TSN has obtained a memo showing the NHL will reject the latest offer from its players. &quot;In sum, we believe the Union&#39;s December 9 CBA proposal, while offering necessary and significant short-term financial
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In another sign the NHL season is slipping away, the league yesterday canceled its All-Star Game because of the lockout. No regular-season games have been played since the season was scheduled to begin Oct.
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NEW YORK (CP) - The NHL has cancelled the Feb. 12-13 all-star weekend in Atlanta because of the lockout. There&#39;s still a chance hockey will resume this year but a shortened season will need all the dates possible
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(CP) - NHL commissioner Gary Bettman spent part of his afternoon Wednesday answering questions from fans about the league&#39;s lockout rather than preparing for opening night.
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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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By tomorrow -- or perhaps Tuesday, if the National Hockey League decides not to spoil Valentine's Day -- the 2004-05 season will officially be canceled. It would be the ultimate irony to pull the plug on a day that is supposed to celebrate the heart, not break it.