Players to begin receiving lockout pay from NHLPA
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The NHL players&#39; association will begin issuing lockout pay to more than 730 players. Payments will start this month, and players will get $10,000 each for November and another $10,000 for December, with subsequent
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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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NHL officials have accepted the NHLPA&#39;s invitation to meet next week in Toronto and discuss a new proposal as the hockey owners&#39; lockout nears its third month.
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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 accepted an invitation from the players' association on Thursday to return to the negotiating table in an effort to end the lockout that began nearly three months ago.
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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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NHL players yesterday offered to cut existing player contracts by 24 percent, a collective pay reduction of approximately a half-billion dollars over three years, in an attempt to break the deadlock with owners that has resulted in the cancellation of the
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National Hockey League owners authorized a lockout of players after the sides failed to agree on a new labor contract, resulting in the league&#39;s first work stoppage in 10 years.
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Key points in NHL proposalBC-HKN--NHL Lockout-Proposal Box, 1st Ld-Writethru,0628
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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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NEW YORK - The National Hockey League will lock out its players Thursday, threatening to keep the sport off the ice for the entire 2004-05 season. The long-expected decision was approved unanimously Wednesday by NHL owners, who are demanding cost certainty, which players say would be tantamount to a salary cap...
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That&#39;s what you can be assured of now following the NHL&#39;s unflinching rejection of the NHLPA&#39;s recent offer to end the current lockout and the union&#39;s subsequent rejection Tuesday of a league counter-proposal.
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The National Hockey League Players&#39; Association has invited the NHL to the bargaining table next week in Toronto in order to present a new proposal and end an almost three-month stalemate in negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement.
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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 (1600 GMT) Wednesday or it's  commissioner Gary Bettman will cancel the 2004/05 season.
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National Hockey League team owners and  players appear poised to enter long contract negotiations  Thursday in a last-ditch bid to start the season on schedule.
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TORONTO -- The National Hockey League and the NHL Players Association, only some three weeks from entering a potentially disastrous lockout, will sign a new collective bargaining agreement that will be a hybrid form of the CBAs that govern Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, and the highly prosperous National Football League.
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NEW YORK (CP) - The NHL Players&#39; Association made the biggest move of the 2Â½-month-old lockout Thursday, inviting the NHL back to the negotiating table with the lure of a new proposal.