Opening Night arrives, but NHL still shut down
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TORONTO (Ticker) -- The NHL Players Association marked what should have been opening night of the 2004-05 season by putting the onus for the month-long lockout on the intransigence of Commissioner Gary Bettman.
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The NHL owners have shut down the league by opting to lock out its players. This stoppage is not the result of the players striking.
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----- NEW YORK (Ticker) - As announced by NHL commissioner Gary Bettman on Wednesday afternoon, the league enforced a lockout at midnight EDT, when the collective bargaining agreement expired.
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----- NEW YORK (Ticker) - As expected, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman announced Wednesday afternoon that the league will have a work stoppage at midnight EDT, when the current collective bargaining agreement expires.
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Celebration replaced trepidation inside a Manhattan club. The NHL hosted a big bash this week, kicking off a new season free of lockout clouds, labor unrest and questions about the league's viability.
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WASHINGTON (Sports Network) - The NHL and NHL Players'  Association met for more than five hours Sunday with federal  mediators, but still no progress was reported in an attempt to  end the labor dispute.
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The NHL lockout forced the cancellation of this season&#39;s All-Star game, scheduled to be held in Atlanta in February. No regular-season games have been played since the season was scheduled to begin on Oct.
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The NHL and its players' union emerge from a 4 1/2-hour meeting Thursday in Toronto without significant progress toward a labor agreement to save the season.
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The prospect of a winter without hockey  continues to send shockwaves across Canada but the labor  dispute between NHL owners and players has caused barely a  ripple in the U.S.
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A year removed from a crippling labor dispute, the NHL is back on its feet ready to take the next step down the road to recovery on Wednesday as a new season opens with as much angst as anticipation.
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The NHL and the players' association were still talking. With the season on the brink of being canceled, negotiations were planned Thursday night in New York with the chance of another get-together Friday.
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Neither the NHL nor the players' union did anything Saturday to avert a deadline that had ticked down to its last 24 hours for saving what little remained of the season.
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NHL players began scattering across the globe Thursday in search of work on Day 1 of the lockout, with no negotiations scheduled between union and management.    While rinks from Pittsburgh to Montreal to Anaheim figure to be quiet in the coming weeks, the ice will be crowded with high-priced talent in places such as the Czech Republic...
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The NHL canceled its season exactly five months after the lockout started. Now there's no telling when there will be games again.
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Against a background chorus of inflammatory rhetoric and name-calling, the National Hockey League closed its doors to its players Wednesday -- setting in motion a labor stoppage that will
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The National Hockey League announced yesterday that it was locking out its players from midnight last night, a move that plunges the weakest of the major US sports into the gravest crisis in its history.
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The NHL may do what no other major pro sports league has done in the US: shut down for an entire season.