A dark day for hockey
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We were going to see if the Lightning could repeat, if the Flames were for real, if Todd Bertuzzi was coming back and if the Edmonton Oilers could win their first playoff series since 1998.
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As exhilarating as hockey has been lately for the Bruins, who swaggered into the Bell Centre last night riding a four-game winning streak, they learned the hard way that fortunes can change and turn this sport into heartache.
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In the many smaller cities that are reliant on hockey to enliven downtowns at night, the loss of a season is a significant blow.
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Veteran Jay McKee is out with a seriously infected cut on his shin, leaving the Buffalo Sabres down four regular defensemen for Game 7 of the Eastern Conference final Thursday against Carolina. The winner of tonight&#039;s game will face the Edmonton Oilers for the Stanley Cup starting Monday.
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NASCAR, college football, college tennis, full-contact poker, jacks and kickball might draw higher TV ratings than NHL games, but there are people who miss the game today.
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Rarely does the National Hockey League get more than it bargains for, but yesterday, before a record crowd of 71,217, it got far more snow than it wanted, along with a few too many broken patches of ice.
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The hockey season started early this year and, after two entertaining weeks of the World Cup, it ends for who knows how long. Despite the impending announcement of an NHL lockout today
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The hockey league&#39;s labor deal expires at midnight tonight, and a work stoppage threatens the entire season. By Susan Bourette | Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor.
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It&#39;s certainly not where Cloutier and the other locked-out NHL players wanted to be Friday night but, given their circumstances, they&#39;ll play anywhere now.
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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 prospect of a winter without hockey  continues to send shockwaves across Canada but the labor  dispute between NHL owners and players has caused barely a  ripple in the U.S.
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Throughout the day, dark clouds hovered above downtown Seattle, a fitting site for a Nets team off to one of its dreariest starts to a season.
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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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While the wintry weather of frozen ponds and icicles hasn't arrived, make no mistake about it, this is hockey season, and the boys of Division 3 are itching to play.
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Things can only improve for the Senators, which is the flip side of the ugly reality they find themselves in this morning. Two games into the Stanley Cup finals, Ottawa's first since 1927, things certainly couldn't be any worse for the distant sons of Cy Denneny.
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The Finnish Hockey League, the countrys elite series in the sport, appears not to be in the best of health.
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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.