NHL players should try a reality check
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Labor disputes between rich athletes and even wealthier owners are always sickening. In this NHL cold war, both sides will be bruised a little.
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A small group of National Hockey League  players are to begin testing heated skate blades designed to  cut down on friction and allow players to move faster and save  energy.
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CHICAGO -- Be prepared for the worst. That could be the message NHL Players Association executive director Bob Goodenow conveys to player agents at a meeting today.
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TAMPA -- Perhaps it would be foolish to consider last night's match against the Tampa Bay Lightning a must-win game.
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We want players to fess up if they've taken steroids. We want the truth, for a change.
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Gary Bettman, the NHL season is now in your hands. And because you have said repeatedly that saving this season isn&#39;ta concern of yours, that can&#39;t be good news for fans.
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The essential question facing NHL owners and locked-out players is: Who cares?
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Eventually, they&#39;ll play hockey again. Maybe the owners will get their way and institute a salary cap. Maybe the players will get their way and a luxury tax will be imposed.
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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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After the Jets' Wayne Chrebet suffered a mild concussion on Sunday, you had to wonder if his season might be over, if not his career.
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The NHL players&#39; union insists its proposed salary rollback will dramatically change the league&#39;s economics. It remains to be seen whether that&#39;s enough to persuade
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NEW YORK -- The NHL Players&#39; Association is working on a proposal that will see players give up serious concessions in a bid to salvage the season.
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Hopes for an NHL season were left  hanging by a thread on Thursday as players presented a proposal  that included a massive 24 percent rollback in salaries but did  not address owners' main demand for cost certainty.
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Look out NHL, the Buffalo Sabres are showing signs of getting back on track.
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If National Hockey League players eventually have their salaries cut by 24 percent, should well-paid players lose more than their lower-paid colleagues?
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There just might be some hope for the hockey season. While the NHL Players Association has been denying it is not currently preparing a new proposal designed to at least reopen talks with the league, the rumor won't go away.
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Any hope of saving the NHL season hinges on whether the next proposal by the Players Association stirs serious negotiating.