Owners look to balance NHL schedule
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hockey The board of governors from the 30 NHL teams met yesterday in Chicago and moved closer to ditching the unbalanced schedule, returning to teams playing every other club, by next season. Although a vote won't take place before the group meets again in November, there was a clear indication that the often criticized schedule, instituted after the lockout wiped ...
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During the NHL lockout, USA TODAY will look at the financial impact it&#39;s having on various groups. Today: players and on-ice officials.
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The lockout of NHL players by the league&#39;s owners moved into its eighth day today, with the stalemate expected to last for months.
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John LeClair understands that the financial landscape in the NHL has to change, the Philadelphia Flyers forward just doesn't like the way the owners propose to fix things.
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Ice hockey legend Wayne Gretzky has admitted he has no solution to offer which might help end the current NHL lockout. The &#39;Great One&#39;, now part-owner of the Phoenix Coyotes, and says he can see both sides of the dispute between team owners and players.
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With the NHL lockout now at 48 days, all eyes will focus on Toronto today for the meeting between Players&#39; Association executive director Bob Goodenow and player representatives from all 30 teams.
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National Hockey League owners will meet  with representatives from the players union on Thursday in what  is seen as a final bid to end a lockout and save the NHL  season.
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A look at key points in the NHL's proposal on Wednesday to the players' association:
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With the final sands of the National  Hockey League's season slipping through the hourglass due to a  labor dispute, many players are desperately turning to far  flung regions to salvage some playing time.
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Hopes for an NHL season were left  hanging by a thread 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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Whether he is willing to scratch it out now -- or even has the authority to do so -- will determine whether there will be a National Hockey League season.
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Eventually, they&#39;ll play hockey again. Maybe the owners will get their way and institute a salary cap. Maybe the players will get their way and a luxury tax will be imposed.
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Calling it &quot;a time for bold steps,&quot; NHL Players Association executive director Bob Goodenow yesterday made a painstakingly detailed and aggressive proposal to the NHL in Toronto in an attempt to end the three-month league lockout.
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Man, is it quiet. With just over two weeks to go before the NHL trade deadline, general managers are moving little more than office furniture (tossing desk chairs in frustration?), further underscoring that the new collective bargaining agreement has turned the building of roster chemistry into strictly a midsummer exercise around free agency.
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Representatives for National Hockey  League owners and locked-out players will resume talks in a bid  to save the rest of the season, a players' union official has  said.
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Bruins owner Jeremy Jacobs has been active in trying to forge a new collective bargaining agreement with the National Hockey League Players Association. Jacobs believes hockey is sick and he agrees with commissioner Gary Bettman that there is a desperate need to retool the system.
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Representatives for NHL owners and  locked out players held an informal meeting on Wednesday and  after five hours of talks agreed to reconvene later this week,  offering a glimmer of hope that the season might be saved.