Players, Owners to Meet in Bid to Save NHL Season
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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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Is there a potential thaw in the cold war between National Hockey League owners and players?
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Next Thursday and Friday NHL executives, including commissioner Gary Bettman, will meet with their counterparts from the National Hockey League Players&#39; Association in Toronto to determine the fate of the NHL season.
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The NHLPA invited the league to the meeting in a letter sent Thursday to commissioner Gary Bettman. &quot;The letter also confirms that the NHLPA is working on a new proposal which it believes should provide the
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Talks between team owners and  locked-out players broke off without agreement Thursday,  leaving hopes for an ice hockey season hanging by a thread.
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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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An NHL lockout that is nine weeks old will not end soon unless the owners show some willingness to negotiate, agents said after a meeting with the players union.
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Representatives from the NHL and the players&#39; union return to the bargaining table at 1 o&#39;clock this afternoon in Toronto for a meeting that could either result in a breakthrough or complete breakdown in negotiations.
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Not likely, but at least it looks like there might finally be some negotiations about ending the NHL lockout. The National Hockey League Players&#39; Association confirmed that NHLPA executive director Bob Goodenow
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By next Friday we should have a good idea as to whether the NHL will play this year or if we are to see the entire season lost. On Thursday the players association invited the NHL to meet next week for a bargaining session.
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An N.H.L. lockout will not end soon unless the owners show some willingness to negotiate, agents said after a meeting with the players union.
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The bid to jump-start NHL labor negotiations has done just that, spawning a second round of talks in an effort to save the hockey season.
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TORONTO -- Can the season be saved? That&#39;s the $2-billion question after NHL Players&#39; Association executive director Bob Goodenow invited commissioner Gary Bettman to a two-day bargaining session here next
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NEW YORK -- The NHL board of governors will meet next month, when commissioner Gary Bettman could seek permission to call off the 2004-05 season.
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The NHL and the players' association are taking another shot at saving the hockey season, which has seemingly been on the brink of cancellation for weeks.
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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.
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With nothing to lose but the rest of the hockey season, Vancouver Canuck Trevor Linden thought his idea was worth a shot: Get together a small group of representatives from NHL management and the players' union and try to find some middle ground that would jump-start talks toward ending the 125-day lockout. Today, six people -- three from each side ...