Hockey, for Now or Forever, Fades Away
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HIS could be the big one. This could be the Hurricane Ivan of sports, the perfect storm that levels the landscape of a formerly major league.
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It's all over but the official announcement. The National Hockey League will formally pull the plug on the 2004-05 season tomorrow at 1 p.m. when commissioner Gary Bettman holds a news conference at a Manhattan hotel.
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New York, NY (Sports Network) - With no sign that the lockout of its players will end in the near future, the National Hockey League has cancelled the 2005 All-Star Game.
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In another sign the NHL season is slipping away, the league canceled its All-Star game Wednesday because of the lockout. No regular-season games have been played since the season was scheduled to begin Oct.
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NEW YORK -- Paralyzed by a labor dispute, the National Hockey League yesterday officially canceled its 2004-05 season, further alienating the sport from its once-loyal fan base and raising serious questions about the league's economic future.
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HAVING finally wrapped their hands around the holy grail - an Olympic gold medal â-ustralia&#39;s men&#39;s hockey players retired to their dressingrooms to perform a victory ritual immortalised by a national team familiar with success.
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The World Cup returned to Canada after 13 long years. How long hockey will be gone is anyone's guess.
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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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ST. PAUL, Minn. (CP) - Before the World Cup of Hockey came to town, every hockey game involving NHL players since the league returned to Minnesota was a sellout.
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(CP) - The NHL pulled the plug on hockey Wednesday, with an emotional Gary Bettman painting a bleak picture of a Grand Canyon-sized divide between owners and the Players&#39; Association.
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Unless and until the National Hockey League gets back in business, hockey fans are going to have to get their fix watching other levels of the sport. Fortunately for those in New England, there is a minor league club in Providence and many strong college teams.
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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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MONTREAL -- The National Hockey League is hoping a dose of high-tech design and a dollop of fashion will help revitalize a sport deemed too dull by many fans south of the Canadian border.
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The Chicago Blackhawks are no longer satisfied with just winning. They want to play well while doing it.
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So, two months into Lockout II, how are you enjoying the 2004-05 hockey season? Sure is quiet around the rink, and given that no one is sashaying up to the bargaining table, it sure looks like it's going to remain quiet for a lot longer.
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Someday, after the NHL lockout ends, there will be stories to tell about how this hockey hiatus changed the direction of people's careers. Because things will never be the same.
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It's been a strange winter for Jean Beliveau. Across Canada, Saturday night is "Hockey Night," a ritual that bonds the generations who sit in front of televisions and watch the national pastime. But not this year.