NHL accepts players union invitation to meet
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NHL officials have accepted the NHL Players&#39; Association&#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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We may soon learn if there will be any professional hockey played in Buffalo this season. Today the NHL&#39;s players union and team owners are meeting in Toronto.
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The cracks that were appearing in the NHL Players&#39; Association&#39;s resolve in the last two weeks were apparently smoothed over during a meeting Tuesday in Toronto.
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The NHL and the league's Players Association moved no closer to a collective bargaining agreement during a five-hour meeting yesterday near Newark Airport in New Jersey. &quot;Today can be more fairly characterized as a side step in the process,&quot; NHLPA senior director Ted Saskin said. &quot;I would not characterize it as having made any progress in any direction.&quot; The talks ...
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The NHL Players&#39; Association handed the NHL a strong proposal Thursday it believes can not only salvage the season but more importantly address all of the league&#39;s economic issues.
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Toronto, ON (Sports Network) - NHL labor talks came to a halt Tuesday after each side rejected the other&#39;s proposal. The talks lasted about 3 1/2 hours with the league making a one-hour presentation on its
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The NHL Players&#39; Association will present its new proposal tomorrow in a meeting with commissioner Gary Bettman and the NHL bargaining team.
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TORONTO -- The NHL rejected last week&#39;s proposal by the players&#39; association and then had its own counteroffer turned down Tuesday during a 3Â½-hour negotiating session.
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TORONTO (Sports Network) - As the clock ticks down on hope  of any semblance of a season, the National Hockey League and  Players' Association will meet this week.
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Locked-out NHL players reaffirmed their solidarity by shoring up cracks in the membership during a four-hour meeting with union leaders Tuesday.
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By next Friday we should have a good idea as to whether the NHL will play this year or if we are to see the entire season lost. On Thursday the players association invited the NHL to meet next week for a bargaining session.
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A look at key points in the NHL's proposal Wednesday to the NHL Players' Association:
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_ NHL officials and union leaders return to the bargaining table Thursday, marking their first talks since late summer. The players&#39; association on Sept.
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The NHL and the players' association will meet Wednesday on a scaled-down basis in an attempt to restart stalled labor negotiations.
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The NHL and NHL Players Association will meet next week to review a proposal being prepared by the players, in a bid to end the lockout that has wiped out the first two months of the season.
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NHL players emerged Tuesday from a four-hour meeting united behind union leadership in the nearly 7-week-old lockout. By Adrian Wyld, AP.
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The NHL and the players&#39; association appeared headed toward a lockout when talks broke off yesterday after the union&#39;s first new proposal in nearly a year.