Talks off between NHL and union
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No progress doesn't mean no hockey -- at least not yet. NHL labor talks ended yesterday after a four-hour meeting, without a resolution or a historic announcement that the season has been lost.
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The NHL and the players' association will hold their next round of labor talks Wednesday in yet another undisclosed location.
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NEW YORK  The NHL and the players association moved no closer to a collective bargaining agreement during a five-hour meeting Tuesday. In fact, the sides even took a slight detour.
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OTTAWAâThe NHL turned up the heat in its ongoing stalemate with its players&#39; association counterparts here yesterday. And as the two parties - two solitudes, actually â-xited the latest round of inertia
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After labor negotiations broke down last month, there was nothing left for the NHL and the players' association to talk about. Now the league doesn't even have any news to share with its board of governors.
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WASHINGTON (Sports Network) - The NHL and NHL Players'  Association met for more than five hours Sunday with federal  mediators, but still no progress was reported in an attempt to  end the labor dispute.
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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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NEW YORK (Sports Network) - The National Hockey League  labor talks concluded Friday after roughly four hours, and the  prospects for a season appear to be unlikely. Both sides  reported no progress in negotiations toward the lockout's  conclusion.
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Contract talks broke off today between the National Hockey League and its locked-out players union, leaving the sport a step closer to wiping out its whole season.
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Talks will resume next Thursday between the National Hockey League and the Players&#39; Association (NHLPA) in an attempt to end the existing lockout and salvage the season.
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The breakdown in talks between the NHL and the Players Association came as a surprise to no one. Even the most optimistic of observers, of which I am not one, expected little when commissioner Gary Bettman and union head Bob Goodenow (they of the scorched-earth mentality) resumed their places at the negotiating table.
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TORONTO Dec 14, 2004 - The NHL moved a step closer to losing the season Tuesday, when the league and players&#39; association rejected proposals for a new collective bargaining agreement.
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The NHL reportedly will reject the latest proposal from the players&#39; union that was meant to put an end to the lockout and salvage the season.
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In a pitched battled with the league&#39;s owners over a new collective bargaining agreement, NHL players have, for the most part, presented a strong, united front that suggests it will be a very
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Negotiations between the NHL and its players have stumbled over the league&#39;s salary cap proposal, with recriminations over the numbers being thrown around.
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New York, NY (Sports Network) - The lack of talks during the National Hockey League lockout could be nearing an end, as NHLPA executive director Bob Goodenow has invited the league&#39;s negotiating committee to a meeting next week in Toronto.
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The National Hockey League and its  players ended three days of labor talks in an apparent deadlock  on Thursday, with little progress seen in avoiding a lockout by  team owners later this month.