With Lockout Official, Both Sides Hunker Down
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Commissioner Gary Bettman, citing $1.8 billion in losses by N.H.L. owners over the last decade, announced a lockout Wednesday, the second in the last decade.
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Marcus Camby is a hockey fan. He wasn&#39;t happy when his hometown Hartford Whalers bolted to North Carolina in 1997. But the Denver Nuggets center realizes the NHL lockout can benefit his team.
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NEW YORK - The National Hockey League locked out its players 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 economic change.    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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The leaders of the National Hockey League have slammed the door on players, instituting a lockout that began at 12:01 this morning, upon the expiration of the 10-year-old collective bargaining
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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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National Hockey League teams appeared  united in their determination to solve the league's economic  problems as the NHL's lockout of players became official on  Thursday.
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The National Hockey League lockout may be officially a week old, but already a considerable number of its players are finding employment elsewhere.
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Until Thursday&#39;s meeting in Toronto, there were no good guys or bad guys in the NHL lockout. This wasn&#39;t Good vs. Evil, Right vs.
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The lockout of NHL players by the league&#39;s owners moved into its eighth day today, with the stalemate expected to last for months.
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Commissioner Gary Bettman summed up the NHL&#39;s decision to lock out its players in five words Wednesday. &quot;We are out of gas,&quot; Bettman said in New York after the league&#39;s Board of Governors offered unanimous
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On the eve of the scheduled start of the new NHL season, there is still no sign of the owners&#39; lockout of players being resolved.
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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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The assessment of Kovalchukâs game â and attitude â has been turned upside down since he entered the N.H.L.
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Labor disputes between rich athletes and even wealthier owners are always sickening. In this NHL cold war, both sides will be bruised a little.
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TORONTO - The public mud slinging and name calling over the National Hockey League lockout fell to a hush Wednesday ahead of the first meeting between the league and its union since the deadlock began three months ago.
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The fears of many hockey fans came true on Wednesday, with the NHL board of governors giving unanimous support to a player lockout.
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It seems like just yesterday that Chris Chelios, then of the Chicago Blackhawks, issued a warning to National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman during a lockout.