Players' Union Offer May Decide Season
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Any hope of saving the NHL season hinges on whether the next proposal by the players' association stirs serious negotiating.
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NEW YORK (CP) - The NHL Players&#39; Association made the biggest move of the 2Â½-month-old lockout Thursday, inviting the NHL back to the negotiating table with the lure of a new proposal.
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An NHL lockout nine weeks old won&#39;t end any time soon unless owners show some willingness to negotiate, agents said after a meeting with the players&#39; union.
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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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The NFL players union wants major additions to the revenue pool used to determine player salaries, making negotiations to extend the current contract more difficult than in the past.
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The weekend has arrived and the death watch on the NHL season has begun. Commissioner Gary Bettman's deadline for reaching a deal with the players' association is rapidly approaching. If there's no agreement before Monday, he is expected to pull the plug on the season that never was.
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Is a break in the NHL impasse about to happen? We hear that the NHLPA soon will produce a PR-oriented &quot;improved&quot; version of its original not-a-chance-it&#39;ll-be-accepted year-old CBA offer.
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NEW YORK - The NFL players union wants major additions to the revenue pool used to determine player salaries, making negotiations to extend the current contract more difficult than in the past.
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The NHL players&#39; union insists its proposed salary rollback will dramatically change the league&#39;s economics. Whether that&#39;s enough to persuade NHL commissioner Gary Bettman to sign off on a deal and end the three-month lockout remains to be seen.
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A closer look at the new offer from the NHL Players&#39; Association: Rollback: The whopping 24% pay cut on all existing player contracts is a monstrous concession.
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As the Philadelphia 76ers try to find a deal that will allow Allen Iverson to play again, a handful of teams are trying to figure out the financial implications of acquiring him.
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The National Hockey League brain trust has long maintained that in order to forge a new collective bargaining agreement with the NHL Players Association, it would need cost certainty -- which means teams' spending for players' salaries must be tied to revenues. In a nutshell, the hard line has been no cap, no hockey season in 2004-05.
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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 players' association will offer advice but said it's the choice of each individual whether to cooperate with former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell's investigation into steroids use.
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One professional hockey player says the NHL players&#39; association offer to end a lockout is ``a lot of money out of a guy&#39;s pocket to be giving up.
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(CBS 5 NEWS) - The controversy surrounding steroid use in Major League Baseball could heat up today as the Players Union begins a week long meeting here in the valley.
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The NHL players' association agrees to accept a salary cap, but contract talks break down early Tuesday over the amount that teams would pay.