NHL Won't Consider Proposed Luxury Tax
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NHL commissioner Gary Bettman reiterated the league's position that it won't consider the players' proposed luxury tax.
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A look at key points in the NHL's proposal Wednesday to the NHL Players' Association:
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TORONTO (CP) - The NHL Players&#39; Association believes its new proposal has the goods to salvage the NHL season. But the offer won&#39;t connect player costs to league revenues - a salary cap - when the NHL&#39;s leadership sees it for the first time Thursday.
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The NHL and the Players Association did not deliver an early Christmas present to fans across North America. The NHL Players Association and the league both rejected counter-proposals during a three-hour meeting in Toronto on Tuesday.
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For hockey fans, this winter might just be the coldest, longest yet. As expected, no agreement has been reached between National Hockey League owners and players, and at midnight last night a decade-old collective bargaining agreement expired with no new deal in sight and the upcoming season on the brink of nonexistence.
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If the NHL and NHL Players&#39; Association do reach a negotiated settlement this season, or next summer, or any time after that, a hard individual team salary cap will not be part of it.
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The National Hockey League, unable to  reach a new pay agreement with its locked-out players, canceled  the rest of its season on Wednesday.
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The NHL owners have shut down the league by opting to lock out its players. This stoppage is not the result of the players striking.
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NHL commissioner Gary Bettman has again dismissed proposals by the players&#39; union for a luxury tax as the sport&#39;s lockout continues.
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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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A look at key points in the NHL's proposal on Wednesday to the players' association:
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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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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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The National Hockey League appears poised to reject a proposal made last Thursday by the players union, which included a 24 percent reduction in pay and other concessions but not a hard salary cap.
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According to a memo obtained by TSN in Canada, the NHL will turn down the players' union proposal to end the lockout and respond with a counteroffer on Tuesday.
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The NHL intends to reject the Players&#39; Association&#39;s latest proposal and counter with one &quot;consistent with our mandate,&quot; NHL executive vice president Bill Daly wrote in a Dec. 12 memorandum to all 30 member clubs.
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The union&#39;s proposal to end the lockout, made Thursday at the league&#39;s Canadian headquarters, calls for a tax that would penalize -- and perhaps deter -- high-end payrolls.