NHLPA set to make new proposal
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE- - The National Hockey League Players&#39; Association extended an olive branch to commissioner Gary Bettman on Thursday, inviting the league back to the negotiating table so it can examine a new proposal from the union.
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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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The National Hockey League and its players&#39; association agreed yesterday that talks concerning a new collective agreement must be more frequent in the remaining four weeks.
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The NHL and the players&#39; association will resume talks next week in an effort to end the 78-day lockout and save the season. After nearly three months of silence on and off the ice
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NEW YORK (Ticker) - With the season spiraling toward oblivion, the National Hockey League moved one step closer Wednesday. With no sign of an agreement between the league and the players association on the
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NEW YORK (Sports Network) - After sitting out the last five  negotiating sessions of the National Hockey League labor  strife, commissioner Gary Bettman and NHLPA executive director  Bob Goodenow will re-join the talks Thursday.
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The National Hockey League, facing a possible work stoppage in less than a week, received the first new labor proposal from its players union in almost a year today in Toronto.
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In perhaps the last effort to head off a lost season, the NHL makes a new offer to the players' association on Wednesday.
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The NHL appreciates the detailed presentation the NHLPA made on December 9, 2004. As we expressed to you then, based upon our preliminary evaluation of your presentation and proposal, we believed the proposal
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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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The NHL reportedly will reject the latest proposal from the players' union that was meant to end the lockout and salvage the season.
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TORONTO (Ticker) - The prospects of an NHL season look to be growing bleaker with each passing day. The Sports Network of Canada reported on its Web site Monday that the NHL will reject the latest proposal
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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.
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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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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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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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Members of the NHL Players Association are meeting in Toronto today to discuss the seven-week-old hockey lockout. Some 70 to 80 player reps are expected at the meeting, who will then brief their teammates back home.