NHL exec says union engaging in a &#39;charade&#39;
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Ottawa, ON (Sports Network) - The negotiations to save the National Hockey League from a work stoppage seemed to take a turn for the worse on Thursday.
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The breakdown in talks between the NHL and the Players Association came as a surprise to no one. Even the most optimistic of observers, of which I am not one, expected little when commissioner Gary Bettman and union head Bob Goodenow (they of the scorched-earth mentality) resumed their places at the negotiating table.
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The dynamic 24 percent payroll rollback proposed by the NHL Players Association last week was simply another gambit in the NHL&#39;s labor dispute.
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Bruins owner Jeremy Jacobs has been active in trying to forge a new collective bargaining agreement with the National Hockey League Players Association. Jacobs believes hockey is sick and he agrees with commissioner Gary Bettman that there is a desperate need to retool the system.
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NHL players are now on the receiving end of that mantra and they don&#39;t like it one bit. But until they accept the business as the owners see it, we&#39;ll continue to ride the merry-go-round that spun us dizzy over the last week.
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Cracks started to appear in the armor of the NHL Players Association, but they were quickly patched yesterday. NHLPA executive director Bob Goodenow and members of his staff addressed 75 union
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Toronto, ON (Sports Network) - NHL commissioner Gary Bettman acknowledged Thursday that one segment of the latest proposal from the players&#39; union was significant, but stressed that much more lies ahead in solving the league&#39;s fiscal problems.
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Bob Goodenow, the executive director of the NHL Players&#39; Association, portrayed his union as united and blamed NHL commissioner Gary Bettman for the seven-week
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Alan Eagleson&#39;s opinion doesn&#39;t carry the weight it once did in hockey&#39;s union circles, but the man who founded the NHL Players&#39; Association believes a deal to end the league&#39;s labour dispute could be reached by December.
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The day before the regular season was supposed to open, the N.H.L. rebuked a team official for his comments about the league's strategy in its labor lockout.
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Wayne Gretzky is an ice hockey god to millions of Canadians but even the &quot;Great One&quot; is unable to offer a solution to the labor dispute now threatening to wipe out the entire NHL season.
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In a pitched battled with the league&#39;s owners over a new collective bargaining agreement, NHL players have, for the most part, presented a strong, united front that suggests it will be a very
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NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman isn&#39;t taking signs of dissension within the player ranks very seriously. &quot;I view it as a part of the process,&quot; Bettman told TSN in an interview broadcast Monday night.
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As promised, the NHL Players Association on Thursday delivered its strongest proposal to end the lockout. In a move even NHLPA executive director Bob Goodenow admitted
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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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If certain people show up, today&#39;s meeting of NHL Players&#39; Association executives and members in Toronto could turn into a passionate debate between the union&#39;s haves and have-nots.
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That could be the common refrain heard by NHL Players Association executive director Bob Goodenow today when the union&#39;s executive committee and representatives of the 30 clubs meet at a Toronto hotel.