NHL Labor Dispute Threatens Hockey Season
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For the second time in 10 years, the National (ice) Hockey League (NHL) has decided to lock out its players and suspend operations.
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An NHL lockout that&#39;s already nine weeks old won&#39;t end any time soon unless owners show some willingness to negotiate, agents said after a meeting with the players&#39; union.
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Instead of preparing to face the Avalanche tonight in Colorado in their second game of the season, the Bruins remain spread over the four corners of the world, with no end in sight to the labor strife between owners and players. Defenseman Hal Gill, who is the union player representative for Boston, would be on the sidelines if the season ...
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NASHVILLE (Billboard) - With a work stoppage for the  National Hockey League looking more likely with each passing  day, NHL arenas face the prospect of some dark days beginning  in September.
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TORONTO - Now, for the first time, there is some hope that the NHL season will not be cancelled. Now, for the first time, there is bound to be significant internal pressure
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Wayne Gretzky is an ice hockey god to millions of Canadians but even the &quot;Great One&quot; is unable to offer a solution to the labor dispute now threatening to wipe out the entire NHL season.
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The weekend has arrived and the death watch on the NHL season has begun. Commissioner Gary Bettman's deadline for reaching a deal with the players' association is rapidly approaching. If there's no agreement before Monday, he is expected to pull the plug on the season that never was.
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Representative of NHL owners and locked  out players met for nine hours Thursday, in a final desperate  bid to end a bitter labor dispute and salvage the ice hockey  season.
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Against a background chorus of inflammatory rhetoric and name-calling, the National Hockey League closed its doors to its players Wednesday -- setting in motion a labor stoppage that will
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The hockey league's labor deal expires at midnight tonight, and a work stoppage threatens the entire season.
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Canada celebrated the victory, but the joy was tempered because the N.H.L. is set to impose a lockout on Wednesday because of a labor dispute with the players association.
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The NHL and the players' association are taking another shot at saving the hockey season, which has seemingly been on the brink of cancellation for weeks.
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A lockout looms for the National Hockey League and its players union as the clock ticks down on a collective bargaining agreement that expires at midnight Wednesday.
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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 lockout that followed the expiration Sept. 15 of the collective bargaining agreement between the NHL and the NHL Players&#39; Association places the entire 82-game season in jeopardy.
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An NHL lockout that's already nine weeks old won't end anytime soon unless owners show some willingness to negotiate, agents said after a meeting with the players' union.
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The day before the regular season was supposed to open, the National Hockey League rebuked a team official yesterday for his comments about the league&#39;s strategy in its labor lockout, its second in a decade.