NHL set to miss opening night
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The Tampa Bay Lightning were supposed to raise their Stanley Cup championship banner this week to kick off the new season. Instead, the arena that rocked during the finals in June will be dark because of a labor dispute that shows no sign of ending soon.
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NEW YORK Nov 3, 2004 - In another sign the NHL season is slipping away, the league canceled its All-Star game Wednesday because of the lockout.
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The National Hockey League has  delivered a final salary offer to locked out players that must  be accepted by 11 a.m. EST Wednesday or its commissioner, Gary  Bettman, will cancel the 2004/05 season.
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TORONTO (Ticker) -- The NHL Players Association marked what should have been opening night of the 2004-05 season by putting the onus for the month-long lockout on the intransigence of Commissioner Gary Bettman.
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NEW YORK - The National Hockey League is locking out its players starting Thursday, threatening to keep the sport off the ice for the entire 2004-05 season and perhaps beyond in an effort by management to gain massive change in the sport's economic structure.    After the long-expected decision was approved unanimously Wednesday by NHL owners, commissioner Gary Bettman repeatedly belittled the union's bargaining position, talked about the possibility the confrontation could extend into the 2005-06 season and said the conflict has jeopardized the NHL's participation in the 2006 Winter Olympics...
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In another sign the NHL season is slipping away, the league on Wednesday canceled its All-Star Game because of the lockout. No regular-season games have been played since the season was scheduled to begin Oct.
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Toronto, ON (Sports Network) - A lockout for the National Hockey League looks to be inevitable after Thursday&#39;s proposal from the NHLPA did little to narrow the impasse between the owners and players.
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A year removed from a crippling labor dispute, the NHL is back on its feet ready to take the next step down the road to recovery on Wednesday as a new season opens with as much angst as anticipation.
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NASHVILLE (Billboard) - With a work stoppage for the  National Hockey League looking more likely with each passing  day, NHL arenas face the prospect of some dark days beginning  in September.
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A look at the NHL lockout through Friday, Oct. 29:
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The NHL canceled its season exactly five months after the lockout started. Now there's no telling when there will be games again.
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The NHL and the players' association are taking another shot at saving the hockey season, which has seemingly been on the brink of cancellation for weeks.
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There's a hole in the heart of Hockeytown. Joe Louis Arena was dark and empty New Year's Eve. It's the place where thousands traditionally begin their night of revelry with a pre-holiday Detroit Red Wings game.
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NHL players and owners fail to reach an agreement, forcing the season's cancellation.  What does the future hold for professional hockey?
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The NHL lockout starts just after midnight Thursday. On Friday night, there will be a chance to see NHL players in action -- if you&#39;re willing to trek to Barrie, Ontario.
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On the eve of the scheduled start of the new NHL season, there is still no sign of the owners&#39; lockout of players being resolved.
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The NHL will return to Europe to open next season, announcing Saturday that two games each will be played in Prague and Stockholm.