Lockout imposed by NHL owners
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Commissioner Gary Bettman summed up the NHL&#39;s decision to lock out its players in five words Wednesday. &quot;We are out of gas,&quot; Bettman said in New York after the league&#39;s Board of Governors offered unanimous
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NEW YORK - The National Hockey League will lock out its players Thursday, threatening to keep the sport off the ice for the entire 2004-05 season. The long-expected decision was approved unanimously Wednesday by NHL owners, who are demanding cost certainty, which players say would be tantamount to a salary cap...
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Here are the choices the NHL owners faced when evaluating the Dec. 9 offer from the NHL Players&#39; Association: - Shut down the season and take a guaranteed loss.
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The NHL Players&#39; Association will pay out between $29 million and $44 million US in lockout pay this season. The payments will start this month with more than 730 players getting $10,000 each for November and another $10,000 for December.
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The essential question facing NHL owners and locked-out players is: Who cares?
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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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A look at the NHL lockout through Wednesday, Dec. 29:
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The NHL said Wednesday it was imposing a lockout of the players association, effective Thursday -- the day after the expiration of the current collective bargaining agreement.
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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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The National Hockey League will lock out its players Thursday, threatening to keep the sport off the ice for the entire 2004-05 season.
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Contract negotiations between the National Hockey League and the NHL Players&#39; Association hit a boiling point yesterday when a league official accused the union of wanting a lockout.
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If it were a perfect world -- for hockey fans, at least -- the Boston Bruins and the rest of the teams in the National Hockey League would be readying themselves for the start of another season. Alas, millionaires from both sides are still stuck in the boring -- and costly -- days of a lockout.
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The NHL and the players&#39; 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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A look at the NHL lockout through Saturday, Dec. 4:
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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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Europe's ice hockey leagues are feeling the benefit of the NHL lockout.
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NHL owners carried out their threat to  lock out players on Wednesday, shutting down the league after  the two sides failed to reach a new labor deal.