NHLPA says Bettman wrong man to lead league as lockout drags on
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Bitter sniping between the NHL players union and commissioner Gary Bettman hit a low point Wednesday, with an NHLPA senior director saying Bettman is the wrong man to lead the league.
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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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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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The NHL, which is in the midst of a labor lockout, disputed a Forbes magazine study that found the league lost less than half as much money as it claimed last season.
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The response of fans and media to Thursday&#39;s unexpected request from NHLPA executive director Bob Goodenow for a Dec. 9 meeting with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman has been subdued, as was the response when Bettman agreed to the meeting.
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Saying the league was out of gas, commissioner Gary Bettman announced the long predicted lockout Wednesday and insisted the league will not play any more games until there is a new economic system.
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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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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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Seven weeks into their lockout with the National Hockey League, members of the NHL Players Association tried to smooth over their internal differences in Toronto on Tuesday.
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National Hockey League Commissioner Gary Bettman has locked the players out, but he isnât speculating on how far he is going to throw the key.
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Commissioner Gary Bettman summed up the NHL&#39;s decision to lock out its players in five words Wednesday. &quot;We are out of gas,&quot; Bettman said in New York after the league&#39;s Board of Governors offered unanimous
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In another sign the NHL season is slipping away, the league canceled its All-Star Game because of the lockout. The season was supposed to have begun Oct. 13.
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The NHLPA invited the league to the meeting in a letter sent Thursday to commissioner Gary Bettman. &quot;The letter also confirms that the NHLPA is working on a new proposal which it believes should provide the
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The NHL said Wednesday it was imposing a lockout of the players association, effective Thursday &#151; the day after the expiration of the current collective bargaining agreement.
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TORONTO - The NHL and the playersâ association appeared headed toward a lockout when talks broke off Thursday after the unionâs first new proposal in nearly a year.
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It's been a week without progress in the NHL lockout. So far, there have been no overtures from the league or the players to resume talks to save a season that is already starting to slip away.
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----- NEW YORK (Ticker) - As announced by NHL commissioner Gary Bettman on Wednesday afternoon, the league enforced a lockout at midnight EDT, when the collective bargaining agreement expired.