NHL labour talks stumble over salary cap issue
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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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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.
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No progress doesn't mean no hockey &#151; at least not yet. NHL labor talks ended Friday after a four-hour meeting, without a resolution or a historic announcement that the season has been lost.
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Both sides of the National Hockey League&#39;s labour impasse seem to be dug in for the long haul. Team owners, claiming heavy losses, are steadfast in their demand that a salary cap be included in the new collective
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NHL owners and the NHL Players Association concluded a two-day negotiating session in Ottawa on Thursday but came away seemingly farther apart than ever.
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Negotiators for the NHL and its players' union discussed various topics in their first face-to-face meeting in over a month, but the league's labor problems were not the focus of the talks.
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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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The NHL and the players' association met for talks Wednesday, but tried to keep the focus on the World Cup of Hockey.
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TORONTO : The National Hockey League slid closer towards losing a season to a labor dispute for the first time, as players rejected a new bid by management to end a three-month lockout.
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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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TORONTO (CP) - NHL labour talks were derailed Tuesday after each side rejected the other&#39;s proposal. The talks lasted about 3ÃÂ½ hours.
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Any hope of salvaging part of the NHL season likely was shattered last night when talks between the league and the players' association broke off in New York after four hours following the NHL's presentation of a proposal that contained a salary cap.
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The NHL and the players association appeared headed toward a lockout when talks broke off Thursday after the union&#39;s first new proposal in nearly a year.
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Five hours of talks Tuesday brought owners and players no closer to resolving labor disagreements that will lead to a lockout when the collective bargaining agreement ends Sept. 15.
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Representative of NHL owners and locked  out players met for nine hours Thursday, in a final desperate  bid to end a bitter labor dispute and salvage the ice hockey  season.
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The National Hockey League and its players' union finally bridged their philosophical divide early yesterday morning, the sides edging toward a collective bargaining agreement based on a salary cap. Time will tell whether the bold move has saved the sport.
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The NHL and the players' association will meet Wednesday on a scaled-down basis in an attempt to restart stalled labor negotiations.