COMMENTARY: NHL losing more than a season
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NHL commissioner Gary Bettman doesn&#39;t know it yet, but I think I represent his worst nightmare. I have followed his league for years.
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If this is hockey&#39;s Armageddon â-nd it&#39;s hard to find anyone in the NHL who doesn&#39;t view the current 61-day owners&#39; lockout in cataclysmic terms â -n Bob Goodenow is the beast who will bear much of the
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Consider the phrase "Wait Until Next Year" out of retirement. Those four words now have a new place among the fandom in Boston as the NHL canceled its season yesterday, 154 days into an ownership-imposed lockout.
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Some teams have played longer than the Jets and lost more games, but few carry the weight of their failure as heavily.
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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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Three years ago, they lost 119 games and were a punchline. You know, the Detroit Tigers ... ha, ha, ha.
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For the second time in 10 years, the NHL has closed its doors. In 1994, we were a nation unprepared - how do you fill the void of turning the TV on once or twice a winter for five minutes or so to watch a game?
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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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While the audit released last February found the league lost $274 million in the 2002-03 hockey season, Forbes pegged losses that year at just $123 million, a massive and contentious discrepancy in the two-month-old lockout of the 750-member NHL Players
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NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman all but killed the 2004-05 season yesterday. Not only did club owners reject the players&#39; union offer to take a 24 percent pay reduction, but Bettman also put a
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BEIJING, Dec. 15 -- The National Hockey League has slipped closer towards losing - for the first time - a season to a labor dispute.
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When NHL commissioner Gary Bettman announced on September 15 that the league had failed to reach a new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) and would lock out the players it drove an icy spike through the hearts of hockey-mad Canadians.
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On the darkest day in NHL history,  Wayne Gretzky painted an even bleaker picture of the sport's  future with one season canceled because of a bitter labor  dispute and the next already in jeopardy.
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Not to alarm you sports fans, but judging from the muscles being flexed on both sides of the National Hockey League&#39;s labor dispute, the 2004-05 season is about as good as trashed.
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The hockey season started early this year and, after two entertaining weeks of the World Cup, it ends for who knows how long. Despite the impending announcement of an NHL lockout today
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In another sign the NHL season is slipping away, the league canceled its All-Star game yesterday because of the lockout. No regular-season games have been played since the season was scheduled to begin Oct.
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I said hockey. You know, the NHL. The game played on ice that&#39;s currently on ice. Hockey, for gosh sakes. Anyway, NHL players, locked out by club owners over collective-bargaining issues, offered