No deal: NHL memo: League will reject offer
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OTTAWA - Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk and Edmonton Oilers governor Cal Nichols will both probably be fined for opening their mouths and rejecting last week&#39;s proposal from the National Hockey League Players&#39; Association -- well in advance of
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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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Toronto, ON (Sports Network) - NHL labor talks came to a halt Tuesday after each side rejected the other&#39;s proposal. The talks lasted about 3 1/2 hours with the league making a one-hour presentation on its
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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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The NHL intends to reject the Players&#39; Association&#39;s latest proposal and counter with one &quot;consistent with our mandate,&quot; NHL executive vice president Bill Daly wrote in a Dec. 12 memorandum to all 30 member clubs.
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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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In a conference call with the media Thursday, NHL Players&#39; Association executive director Bob Goodenow again heatedly contested the data league officials cited when the league rejected the union&#39;s collective bargaining agreement proposal this week in
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Robert Esche&#39;s tone over the past three months has slowly gone from angry to sad. On Tuesday -- after the National Hockey League owners and players each rejected a proposal for a new collective bargaining
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The National Hockey League rejected an  offer from the players in the latest round of labor  negotiations Thursday, leaving little hope of avoiding a  lockout start to the season next month.
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The chess game between the NHL and the NHLPA continued Tuesday, with the league rejecting the players&#39; offer from last Thursday and tabling a counteroffer, which was in turn rejected by the NHLPA.
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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.
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TORONTO (CP) - The NHL Players&#39; Association believes its new proposal has the goods to salvage the NHL season. But the offer won&#39;t connect player costs to league revenues - a salary cap - when the NHL&#39;s leadership sees it for the first time Thursday.
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The NHL and the players' association are taking another shot at saving the hockey season, which has been on the brink of cancellation for weeks. A two-day meeting last week produced no tangible progress toward a labor agreement. The league and the union will meet again Wednesday in Toronto, but no formal proposal will be presented by the league.
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The National Hockey League Players&#39; Association has invited the NHL to the bargaining table next week in Toronto in order to present a new proposal and end an almost three-month stalemate in negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement.
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For hockey fans, this winter might just be the coldest, longest yet. As expected, no agreement has been reached between National Hockey League owners and players, and at midnight last night a decade-old collective bargaining agreement expired with no new deal in sight and the upcoming season on the brink of nonexistence.
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TORONTO (Sports Network) - One day after word leaked out  that the National Hockey League is going to reject the NHLPA's  latest collective bargaining proposal, the two sides will meet  in Toronto.
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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