Canadians Fret as Americans Forget About Lockout
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When NHL commissioner Gary Bettman announced on September 15 that the league had failed to reach a new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) and would lock out the players it drove an icy spike through the hearts of hockey-mad Canadians.
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Seven weeks into their lockout with the National Hockey League, members of the NHL Players Association tried to smooth over their internal differences in Toronto on Tuesday.
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A hockey fan disgruntled by the NHL lockout is taking his frustration to the streets.
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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 hum from machinery tucked under the seats at Joe Louis Arena was the only sound heard. The ice surface was empty &#151; and so were the stands. Welcome to the NHL lockout.
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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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Even if you think the World Cup of Hockey is just a tease before the start of an NHL lockout, one positive for Bruins fans was evident during Tuesday night's emotional matchup between the United States and Canada at Montreal's Bell Centre.
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During the NHL lockout, USA TODAY will look at the financial impact it&#39;s having on various groups. Today: players and on-ice officials.
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Most Canadians know so little about their own country that they would flunk the basic test that new immigrants are required to take before becoming citizens, according to a poll released on Friday.
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Canada bid a final adieu to the  Montreal Expos who disappeared from the country's sports scene  on Wednesday in a wave of bitterness and nostalgia.
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The Americans have run out of explanations, but not excuses.
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I don&#39;t want to sound un-American, but I hate the way the PGA Tour has trivialized the Canadian Open. Back when Lee Trevino won the event in 1971, sandwiched between victories at the US and
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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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Today may be a dark day for Canada and its national sport, but the country&#39;s favorite sons lit up the night last evening. On the eve of an almost certain National Hockey League lockout
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Former Red Wing Brett Hull won&#39;t be in the lineup again tonight, when the United States faces Russia in the quarterfinals of the World Cup of Hockey, and he&#39;s not happy about it.
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ATHENS -- Adam van Koeverden has a message for his fellow Canadian athletes -- quit whining about circumstances you can&#39;t control. &quot;You can&#39;t fall into a corner and cry and say the Canadian sports system has let me down. You have to do things for ...
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Not content to simply play hockey on frozen ponds or waltz along canals that have turned to ice, some Canadians prefer to amuse themselves with a more extreme form of outdoor skating.