NHL players determined to fight salary cap
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TORONTO (CP) - With the NHL season slipping away, players made it clear Tuesday they won&#39;t cave in to team owners. &quot;We&#39;re more united now than we were before,&quot; star defenceman Chris Pronger said after 74 members
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The National Hockey League brain trust has long maintained that in order to forge a new collective bargaining agreement with the NHL Players Association, it would need cost certainty -- which means teams' spending for players' salaries must be tied to revenues. In a nutshell, the hard line has been no cap, no hockey season in 2004-05.
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The National Hockey League appeared to  be one day away from cancelling its season due to a labor  dispute after owners rejected a salary cap proposal from  locked-out players.
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NHL players offered Thursday to cut their salaries by 24 percent in an effort to end a 12-week-old lockout that threatens to wipe out the 2004-05 season and beyond.
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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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The NHL players' association will begin issuing lockout pay to more than 730 players. Payments will start this month, and players will get &#36;10,000 each for November and another &#36;10,000 for December, with subsequent monthly payments varying between &#36;5,000 or &#36;10,000, The Canadian Press reported.
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NEW YORK -- The NHL Players&#39; Association is working on a proposal that will see players give up serious concessions in a bid to salvage the season.
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The entire ice hockey season could be lost to the dispute over salary capping.
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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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The NHL players&#39; association will begin issuing lockout pay to more than 730 players. Payments will start this month, and players will get $10,000 each for November and another $10,000 for December, with subsequent
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NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and Players&#39; Association boss Bob Goodenow are playing with dynamite as they resume negotiations over the fate of the 2004-2005 season.
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Hockey fans are looking to Toronto today, as NHL owners and players&#39; representatives meet for what many believe is their last chance to put the game back on the ice this season.
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Movement continues to take place among NHL players -- but it's not toward North American teams nor arenas.
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TORONTO -- The NHL won&#39;t take a second look at the NHL Players&#39; Association&#39;s offer to save the season. In an eight-page memo obtained by TSN yesterday, NHL VP Bill Daly outlined why the league is going to
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Chicagoâ An NHL lockout that&#39;s already nine weeks old won&#39;t end anytime soon unless owners show some willingness to negotiate, agents said after a meeting with the players&#39; union.
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The beauty of the NHL salary cap is that every storm can be weathered. No matter how crazy things look, no matter how perplexing or troublesome or outright wacky, no team can assemble a roster that pays more than $44 million (up from $39 million last season) to the rank and file.
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The players on Tuesday debated an ultimatum issued by their employers: accept a payroll limit of $42.5 million per team by 11 a.m. Wednesday or sacrifice the season.