NHL shuns union&#39;s latest offer
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - An NHL lockout appears almost unavoidable after the league swiftly rejected the NHL Players&#39; Association&#39;s latest offer on Thursday.
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OTTAWA (Ticker) -- While the dialogue at the latest NHL labor meeting Thursday resulted in little progress on a new collective bargaining agreement, it did generate harsh words from a league official.
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The NHL and the Players Association did not deliver an early Christmas present to fans across North America. The NHL Players Association and the league both rejected counter-proposals during a three-hour meeting in Toronto on Tuesday.
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The chess game between the NHL and the NHLPA continued Tuesday, with the league rejecting the players&#39; offer from last Thursday and tabling a counteroffer, which was in turn rejected by the NHLPA.
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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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The NHL and the players' association were unable to reach an accord on a new collective bargaining agreement at a meeting that went late into Thursday night.
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Based on an eight-page memorandum the NHL has sent to all teams, mysteriously obtained by TSN, the NHL has rejected the NHLPA offer and is poised to issue its own counter-offer at a 1 pm meeting with the NHLPA on Tuesday.
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The National Hockey League rejected an 11th-hour proposal by the league's Players Association.
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----- TORONTO (Ticker) - The start of the 2004-05 NHL season was put in extreme jeopardy Thursday when the league rejected a proposal for a new collective bargaining agreement from the Players Association.
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The one-time offer does not include a salary cap and owners will make a counter-offer Tuesday. TORONTO -- The ball is in the NHL&#39;s court now.
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The National Hockey League and the NHL Players Association broke off talks yesterday in Toronto aimed at ending the lockout and beating a weekend deadline to save the season.
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The National Hockey League appeared to  be one day away from canceling its season due to a labor  dispute after owners rejected a salary cap proposal from  locked-out players.
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The latest -- and likely final -- nail in the coffin of the National Hockey League's 2004-05 season was driven in yesterday when the United States Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service failed to broker a deal between the league and the players association.
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The NHL intends to reject the Players&#39; Association&#39;s latest proposal and counter with one &quot;consistent with our mandate,&quot; NHL executive vice president Bill Daly wrote in a Dec. 12 memorandum to all 30 member clubs.
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NEW YORK (CP) - It took less than an hour for the NHL to reject an NHL Players' Association counter-proposal to end the lockout Tuesday night.
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The NHL and the players association moved no closer to a collective bargaining agreement during a five-hour meeting Tuesday. In fact, the sides even took a slight detour.
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The NHL and the players' association appeared headed toward a lockout when talks broke off yesterday after the union's first new proposal in nearly a year.