Sportsview: What's Next for Hockey?
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Football, a sport so much more popular and richer than hockey the two almost cannot be compared, never attempted a gambit so risky. Neither did baseball, a sport so indigenous to the fabric of American society that its very president once was a team owner.
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First, the talking stopped. Now, the games have, too. Hockey has run out of time and tournaments. All that's left is a lockout.
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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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Kevin Paul Dupont Bruins: 94 points, seventh in the East. Chara plays a little goal, too, to get it done. They'll win two games in first round of playoffs before folding. Eastern Conference finals: Carolina over NY Rangers. 'Canes make it to Cup again, with Staal winning NHL scoring title. Jagr leads Blueshirts one more time, but injured again at ...
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A look at the NHL lockout through Saturday, Feb. 12:
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TORONTO (CP) - The NHL season isn&#39;t dead yet, but it is on its last legs. The cautious optimism accompanied by last week&#39;s offer by the NHL Players&#39; Association was replaced by doom and gloom Tuesday as both
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I said hockey. You know, the NHL. The game played on ice that&#39;s currently on ice. Hockey, for gosh sakes. Anyway, NHL players, locked out by club owners over collective-bargaining issues, offered
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A look at key points in the NHL's proposal Wednesday to the NHL Players' Association:
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Is a break in the NHL impasse about to happen? We hear that the NHLPA soon will produce a PR-oriented &quot;improved&quot; version of its original not-a-chance-it&#39;ll-be-accepted year-old CBA offer.
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Any hope of saving the NHL season hinges on whether the next proposal by the players' association stirs serious negotiating.
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With the NHL closed for business, minor league hockey is thriving. Attendance is up and some players with NHL experience welcome the playing time in the minors. Ten of the American Hockey League's top 13 scorers were on NHL rosters a year ago.
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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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With the cancellation of the 2004-05 NHL season Wednesday, there is speculation about where the 88-year-old league goes from here and whether it can survive.
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OTTAWA  &#151; American hockey viewers are in for a Cherry-flavored taste of Canada. Former coach Don Cherry will bring his hockey schtick and his sartorial splendor to the narrow U.S. TV audience that is expected to take in Monday night's broadcast of Game 4 on NBC.
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Key points in NHL proposalBC-HKN--NHL Lockout-Proposal Box, 1st Ld-Writethru,0628
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While the prospect of no NHL hockey being played this season gets to be more of a reality every day, once thing is certain: partial season or not, there will be no NHL All-Star Game this season.
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By next Friday we should have a good idea as to whether the NHL will play this year or if we are to see the entire season lost. On Thursday the players association invited the NHL to meet next week for a bargaining session.