NHL Players, Owners to Meet in Bid to Salvage Season
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National Hockey League owners will meet  with representatives from the players union on Thursday in what  is seen as a final bid to end a lockout and save the NHL  season.
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The NHL Players&#39; Association will present its new proposal tomorrow in a meeting with commissioner Gary Bettman and the NHL bargaining team.
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The National Hockey League Players&#39; Association has invited the NHL to the bargaining table next week in Toronto in order to present a new proposal and end an almost three-month stalemate in negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement.
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NEW YORK - 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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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 NHL and the players' association will resume talks this week in a bid to save the season -- and they'll meet yet again without commissioner Gary Bettman or union head Bob Goodenow.
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NEW YORK -- National Hockey League owners will meet at a Times Square hotel today as the league counts down the final hours toward a work stoppage that has been predicted for more than a year.
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Predators owner Craig Leipold and representatives of the local group hoping to keep the team in Nashville met Wednesday with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman.
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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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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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With two fruitless negotiating sessions behind them and only one month left before an NHL lockout, the league and the players association will return to the bargaining table Tuesday.
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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 and the players' association will resume talks in a bid to save the season &#151; and they'll meet yet again without commissioner Gary Bettman or union head Bob Goodenow.
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Hopes of salvaging the NHL season  appeared to vanish when representatives for team owners and  locked-out players ended Thursday's meeting without an  agreement, and with no plans for further talks.
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There is no secret that time is running out to save the NHL season. How the NHL and the players association are working to prevent that has become a very big mystery.
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Representatives for team owners and  locked-out players met under a cloak of secrecy Wednesday, with  no indication if the two sides had come closer to resolving the  labor dispute threatening to wipe out the entire ice hockey  season.
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NHL players emerged Tuesday from a four-hour meeting united behind union leadership in the nearly 7-week-old lockout. &quot;(Commissioner Gary Bettman) wants to