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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NEW YORK - The National Hockey League is locking out its players starting 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 change in the sport's economic structure.    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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After almost three months without any movement, the NHL Players&#39; Association announced Thursday it has prepared a new proposal to end the NHL lockout, which stretches into its 79th day today.
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In summarizing the swap of rejected proposals that led to the latest and gloomiest freeze of negotiations in the National Hockey League&#39;s ongoing lockout, league commissioner Gary Bettman detailed how close he thinks the two sides actually are to a deal.
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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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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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Talks between team owners and  locked-out players broke off without agreement Thursday,  leaving hopes for an ice hockey season hanging by a thread.
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The National Hockey League rejected an 11th-hour proposal by the league's Players Association.
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TORONTO Dec 14, 2004 - The NHL moved a step closer to losing the season Tuesday, when the league and players&#39; association rejected proposals for a new collective bargaining agreement.
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According to a memo obtained by TSN in Canada, the NHL will turn down the players' union proposal to end the lockout and respond with a counteroffer on Tuesday.
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The NHL and the Players Association did not deliver an early Christmas present to fans across North America. The NHL Players Association and the league both rejected counter-proposals during a three-hour meeting in Toronto on Tuesday.
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The NHL's latest salary-cap proposal to end the seasonlong lockout was rejected yesterday by the players' union, which came back with its own idea: Bring commissioner Gary Bettman to the bargaining table.
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The National Hockey League appears poised to reject a proposal made last Thursday by the players union, which included a 24 percent reduction in pay and other concessions but not a hard salary cap.
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NEW YORK (CP) - It took less than an hour for the NHL to reject an NHL Players' Association counter-proposal to end the lockout Tuesday night.
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The NHL owners have shut down the league by opting to lock out its players. This stoppage is not the result of the players striking.
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The NHL reportedly will reject the latest proposal from the players' union that was meant to end the lockout and salvage the season.
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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