N.H.L. Players Reject Latest Proposal to End Lockout
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The leaders of the two sides will rejoin negotiations on Thursday, but their top aides expressed only limited optimism.
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One day after the NHL players' association rejected the league's latest salary-cap proposal, the sides met again in what could be the last chance to save the hockey season.
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Five hours of talks Tuesday brought owners and players no closer to resolving labor disagreements that will lead to a lockout when the collective bargaining agreement ends Sept. 15.
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The NHL rejected last week's proposal by the players' association and then had its own counteroffer turned down Tuesday during a 3 1/2-hour negotiating session.
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As promised, the NHL Players Association on Thursday delivered its strongest proposal to end the lockout. In a move even NHLPA executive director Bob Goodenow admitted
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The National Hockey League, unable to  reach a new pay agreement with its locked-out players, canceled  the rest of its season on Wednesday.
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NHL commissioner Gary Bettman has again dismissed proposals by the players&#39; union for a luxury tax as the sport&#39;s lockout continues.
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NEW YORK - 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.    After the long-expected decision was approved unanimously Wednesday by NHL owners, commissioner Gary Bettman repeatedly belittled the union's bargaining position, talked about the possibility the confrontation could extend into the 2005-06 season and said the conflict has jeopardized the NHL's participation in the 2006 Winter Olympics...
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Based on an eight-page memorandum the NHL has sent to all teams, mysteriously obtained by TSN, the NHL has rejected the NHLPA offer and is poised to issue its own counter-offer at a 1 pm meeting with the NHLPA on Tuesday.
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The NHL and the players' association appeared headed toward a lockout when talks broke off Thursday after the union's first new proposal in nearly a year.
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The leaders of the National Hockey League have slammed the door on players, instituting a lockout that began at 12:01 this morning, upon the expiration of the 10-year-old collective bargaining
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That&#39;s what you can be assured of now following the NHL&#39;s unflinching rejection of the NHLPA&#39;s recent offer to end the current lockout and the union&#39;s subsequent rejection Tuesday of a league counter-proposal.
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Hopes of saving the National Hockey  League season all but vanished Tuesday when players and team  owners rejected proposals to end the labor dispute.
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A salary cap remains a sticking point as the league and the players reject each other&#39;s offers. TORONTO - The NHL edged a few steps closer to cancellation of what remains of the 2004-05 season Tuesday, rejecting
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NHL Players Association executive director Bob Goodenow said Wednesday the union has no immediate plans to submit a new proposal to the owners in hopes of ending the lockout that is now in its third month.
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Any hope that may have arisen from the resumption of negotiations last week was snuffed out Tuesday by the league&#39;s rejection of the union&#39;s proposal during a 3Â½-hour meeting in Toronto and
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Negotiations broke off Thursday between the N.H.L. and its Players Association as hope dwindled for saving even a fragment of the season.