Canadians Fret as Americans Forget About 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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Oh, Canada! For the first time, Americans were taken with the top two picks in the NHL draft.
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If it were a perfect world -- for hockey fans, at least -- the Boston Bruins and the rest of the teams in the National Hockey League would be readying themselves for the start of another season. Alas, millionaires from both sides are still stuck in the boring -- and costly -- days of a lockout.
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From veteran players who won't collect their paychecks to young prospects who had hoped to earn a roster spot, the NHL lockout will touch everyone in the organization.
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Canada celebrated the victory, but the joy was tempered because the N.H.L. is set to impose a lockout on Wednesday because of a labor dispute with the players association.
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Maybe theyâre superstitious. Maybe they donât want to say the word. Or maybe itâs just easier for hockey people to use âitâ or âthem.â
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For 22 years, Ray Bourque had been preparing for last night. As he played each game of his National Hockey League career, he wasn&#39;t cognizant
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Wade Redden took off his practice gear unsure of when he'd have a chance to put it on again. His injured shoulder wouldn't allow him to play for Canada in the World Cup of Hockey championship on Tuesday night. The lack of a collective bargaining agreement between NHL players and owners figures to keep the Ottawa defenseman off the ice much longer.
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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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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.
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Consider the phrase "Wait Until Next Year" out of retirement. Those four words now have a new place among the fandom in Boston as the NHL canceled its season yesterday, 154 days into an ownership-imposed lockout.
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The problem is, through four games of the World Cup of Hockey, no team has been able to identify just what it is. In their quarterfinal game last night at the Air Canada Centre
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US goalkeeper Jackie Frank had only a rookie&#39;s concept of what being an Olympian meant until getting swamped by Canada in a water polo shocker.
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It&#39;s pretty rare that a first-ballot Hall of Famer, the third-leading goal-scorer in NHL history, gets benched. But the United States had opened the World Cup of
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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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A hockey fan disgruntled by the NHL lockout is taking his frustration to the streets.
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So, two months into Lockout II, how are you enjoying the 2004-05 hockey season? Sure is quiet around the rink, and given that no one is sashaying up to the bargaining table, it sure looks like it's going to remain quiet for a lot longer.