Hopes for NHL season take hit
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One side refuses to bend. The other vows not to break. Common ground cannot be found. And time is ticking away. Optimism that the NHL season could be saved with a new round
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The prospects of saving the National  Hockey League (NHL) season are grim and unless owners and  players start talking soon to end a lockout the 2005-2006  season is also at risk, Montreal's Saku Koivu said.
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Three months ago, the Tampa Bay Lightning won the Stanley Cup. Now there might not be a season for the Lightning to defend that championship.
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Hockey fans are looking to Toronto today, as NHL owners and players&#39; representatives meet for what many believe is their last chance to put the game back on the ice this 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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com. If the NHL season is lost due to the current owner&#39;s lockout sometime in the next few weeks, fans, players and owners alike can blame it on the unlucky No.
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-- Any hope of saving the NHL season hinges on whether the next proposal by the players&#39; association stirs serious negotiating.
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The NHL and the players' association are taking another shot at saving the hockey season, which has been on the brink of cancellation for weeks. A two-day meeting last week produced no tangible progress toward a labor agreement. The league and the union will meet again Wednesday in Toronto, but no formal proposal will be presented by the league.
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Welcome to the winter home of cockeyed optimism. The Minnesota Vikings could be thinking about their latest disappointing defeat â-nd fifth in seven games
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TORONTO -- There has been precious little to celebrate in the professional hockey world, given the labor strife between National Hockey League owners and players that has resulted in a lockout that threatens the entire 2004-05 season.
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National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman, painting a bleak picture of the league&#39;s economic state, yesterday locked out players
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The curtain is set to come down on the 2004-05 National Hockey League season before it ever goes up.
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For hockey fans, this winter might just be the coldest, longest yet. As expected, no agreement has been reached between National Hockey League owners and players, and at midnight last night a decade-old collective bargaining agreement expired with no new deal in sight and the upcoming season on the brink of nonexistence.
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EDMONTON - This NHL season died from neglect ages ago and on Tuesday it became obvious. Two wrongs make for last rites. The NHL and its players have accomplished nothing through 90 days of this lockout other
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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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Hopes of salvaging the NHL season  appeared to vanish when representatives for team owners and  locked-out players ended Thursday's meeting without an  agreement, and with no plans for further talks.
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Any hope of saving the NHL season hinges on whether the next proposal by the Players Association stirs serious negotiating.