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Well, I still think he was a small-minded, wishy-washy puppet, but maybe, it turns out, he was right. Maybe he was right to treat the NHL as a mom-and-pop league, way down the ladder in
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The Finnish Hockey League, the countrys elite series in the sport, appears not to be in the best of health.
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With the NHL playoffs beginning to take shape on the horizon, and one of the teams blocking their view of an Eastern Conference spot in the house, the Bruins had an opportunity last night to see the stuff this team is made of.
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Maybe theyâre superstitious. Maybe they donât want to say the word. Or maybe itâs just easier for hockey people to use âitâ or âthem.â
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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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Given the current state of the National Hockey League, it's a giant long shot if the game comes back for any part of the 2004-05 season. What the product will look like when it does resume remains to be seen. Will the 82-game season be shortened? It certainly should be. Will they find a way to legislate the trap out ...
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MONTREAL -- The National Hockey League is hoping a dose of high-tech design and a dollop of fashion will help revitalize a sport deemed too dull by many fans south of the Canadian border.
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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 NHL suffered less than half the losses it has claimed the past 2 years, according to a report in Forbes magazine. In its Nov. 29 edition, the business magazine - which did not have access to all of the
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Columbus Blue Jackets general manager Doug MacLean is not filled with optimism regarding today&#39;s meeting in Toronto with the National Hockey League Players Association and league commissioner Gary Bettman.
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Truth is, the goaltending wasn't all that bad. The truth hurts sometimes, doesn't it?
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Both sides of the National Hockey League&#39;s labour impasse seem to be dug in for the long haul. Team owners, claiming heavy losses, are steadfast in their demand that a salary cap be included in the new collective
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RDW Group president Mike Doyle believes in thinking small--or at least in his shop growing by pursuing smaller pieces of local new business while some of New England's other midsize players attempt to compete in the national arena.
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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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The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) and the National Hockey League (NHL) inched closer to a transfer agreement after the NHL conceded too many young Europeans are playing in North American minor leagues.
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The National Hockey League brain trust has long maintained that in order to forge a new collective bargaining agreement with the NHL Players Association, it would need cost certainty -- which means teams' spending for players' salaries must be tied to revenues. In a nutshell, the hard line has been no cap, no hockey season in 2004-05.
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With No. 14 Minnesota trying to become the seventh Big Ten member to earn a Bowl Championship Series berth, it&#39;s a good time to point out that - in an age of conference expansion - staying small has its advantages.