Game off, NHL votes to lock out players saying economics have to ...
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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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The lockout that followed the expiration Sept. 15 of the collective bargaining agreement between the NHL and the NHL Players&#39; Association places the entire 82-game season in jeopardy.
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NEW YORK - In what could be a last-second breakthrough, both sides of the NHL lockout have given significant ground: The players' association will accept a salary cap, and the league has backed off its demand for a link between revenues and player costs.
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The National Hockey League will lock out its players Thursday, starting a work stoppage that threatens to keep the sport off the ice for the entire 2004-05 season.
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Thereâs no crying in baseball - or hockey for that matter â-ut it appears there can be rollbacks in CBA negotiating. Surely the most shocking element of the NHLPAâs proposal to the NHL owners on Thursday
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The NHL players&#39; union insists its proposed salary rollback will dramatically change the league&#39;s economics. Whether that&#39;s enough to persuade NHL commissioner Gary Bettman to sign off on a deal and end the three-month lockout remains to be seen.
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For hockey-mad Canadians, tickets to an NHL game are the ultimate Christmas gift. This year, though, they were worthless after NHL owners locked out players in a labor dispute that is threatening to wipe out an entire season.
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The NHL and the players' association appeared headed toward a lockout when talks broke off Thursday after the union's first new proposal in nearly a year.
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Nearly five months into the NHL lockout, the players' association still won't accept the league's demand for a salary cap. The league says it's too late to talk about alternatives. And now time is about to run out on the hockey season.
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National Hockey League owners carried  out their threat to lock out players on Wednesday, shutting  down the league after the two sides were unable to reach a new  labor deal.
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NEW YORK (CP) - It took less than an hour for the NHL to reject an NHL Players' Association counter-proposal to end the lockout Tuesday night.
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TORONTO - The NHL Players&#39; Association tried yesterday to shake off dissenting remarks cast by several rank-and-file members in recent weeks as union head Bob Goodenow assured observers there are &quot;absolutely no cracks or divisiveness&quot; among locked out NHL
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TORONTO - An NHL lockout is a virtual certainty when the collective bargaining agreement between owners and players expires at 12:01 a.m. Thursday...
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Hopes for an NHL season were left  hanging by a thread on 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 players&#39; union insists its proposed salary rollback will dramatically change the league&#39;s economics. It remains to be seen whether that&#39;s enough to persuade
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After the players and league failed to come to an agreement, the National Hockey League said Wednesday that it would lock out its players.
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The NHL reportedly will reject the latest proposal from the players' union that was meant to end the lockout and salvage the season.