NHL Talks End With No Sign of Restarting
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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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An NHL lockout that's already nine weeks old won't end anytime soon unless owners show some willingness to negotiate, agents said after a meeting with the players' union.
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Hopes for an NHL season were left  hanging by a thread on Thursday as players presented a proposal  that included a massive 24 percent rollback in salaries but did  not address owners' main demand for cost certainty.
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Hopes of saving the National Hockey League season all but vanished Tuesday when players and team owners rejected proposals to end the labor dispute.
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After labor negotiations broke down last month, there was nothing left for the NHL and the players' association to talk about. Now the league doesn't even have any news to share with its board of governors.
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The National Hockey League rejected an  offer from the players in the latest round of labor  negotiations Thursday, leaving little hope of avoiding a  lockout start to the season next month.
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The NHL and the players association completed a three-day round of talks Thursday in Montreal and were no closer to a deal that might save the upcoming season.
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TORONTO (CP) - The NHL Players&#39; Association is waiting for the NHL to pick up the phone and resume collective bargaining talks.
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The breakdown in talks between the NHL and the Players Association came as a surprise to no one. Even the most optimistic of observers, of which I am not one, expected little when commissioner Gary Bettman and union head Bob Goodenow (they of the scorched-earth mentality) resumed their places at the negotiating table.
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NEW YORK : The National Hockey League was in the deep freeze, with no indication that the league&#39;s labor woes could be resolved in time to save any of the 2004-05 season.
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Any hope of salvaging part of the NHL season likely was shattered last night when talks between the league and the players' association broke off in New York after four hours following the NHL's presentation of a proposal that contained a salary cap.
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Nearly five months into the NHL lockout, the players' association still won't accept the league's demand for a salary cap. The league says it's too late to talk about alternatives. And now time is about to run out on the hockey season.
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Talks will resume next Thursday between  the National Hockey League and the Players' Association (NHLPA)  in an attempt to end the existing lockout and salvage the  season.
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The NHL and the players association appeared headed toward a lockout when talks broke off Thursday after the union&#39;s first new proposal in nearly a year.
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The NHL and the league's Players Association moved no closer to a collective bargaining agreement during a five-hour meeting yesterday near Newark Airport in New Jersey. &quot;Today can be more fairly characterized as a side step in the process,&quot; NHLPA senior director Ted Saskin said. &quot;I would not characterize it as having made any progress in any direction.&quot; The talks ...
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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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New York, NY (Sports Network) - The lack of talks during the National Hockey League lockout could be nearing an end, as NHLPA executive director Bob Goodenow has invited the league&#39;s negotiating committee to a meeting next week in Toronto.