N.H.L. Cancels the Rest of Its Season as Labor Talks Fall Apart
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The N.H.L. became the first major pro sports league in North America to lose an entire season to a labor dispute.
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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 pulled the plug on the start of training camp Wednesday, threatening the entire 2004-05 professional hockey season.
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TORONTO -- National Hockey League labor talks came to a halt Tuesday after each side rejected the other&#39;s proposal. The talks lasted more than three hours, with the league making a one-hour presentation on
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In another sign the NHL season is slipping away, the league canceled its All-Star Game because of the lockout. The season was supposed to have begun Oct. 13.
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The day before the regular season was supposed to open, the N.H.L. rebuked a team official for his comments about the league's strategy in its labor lockout.
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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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The NHL season is finally cancelled after players and owners fail to reach a last-ditch agreement.
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The NHL and the players' association appeared headed toward a lockout when talks broke off Thursday after the union's first new proposal in nearly a year.
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Several teams were slated to host season openers Wednesday night, but won't due to a labor dispute that shows no sign of ending soon.
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The NHL and the players' association broke off talks Thursday as the clock ticked down to a weekend deadline for saving what little is left of the season.
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NHL owners and players took turns rejecting each other&#39;s proposals for a new collective bargaining agreement during a 3 1/2-hour meeting at league offices in Toronto yesterday, moving the league closer toward canceling the entire 2004-05 season.
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The regular season that cost Art Howe and Jim Duquette their titles ended nearly two weeks ago, but jobs are still being lost. Having just started their search for a new
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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. Wednesday&#39;s announcement that the midseason showcase would not be held came on the 49th
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The National Hockey League has  delivered a final salary offer to locked out players that must  be accepted by 11 a.m. EST Wednesday or its commissioner, Gary  Bettman, will cancel the 2004/05 season.
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The hockey league&#39;s labor deal expires at midnight tonight, and a work stoppage threatens the entire season. By Susan Bourette | Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor.
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The NHL All-Star game, originally scheduled to be played February 12th and 13th at the Philips Arena in Atlanta, has been canceled by the league.