By John Solomon
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It's uncertain whether the radical, four-conference format that owners tried to implement for this season will remain the plan. The NHL Players' Association withheld consent on that because of concerns about travel and uneven odds to make the playoffs.
The NHL's deadline for playing a full, 82-game season arrived Thursday with no new discussions between the league and its locked-out players.
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman still hasn't heard what he wants from the players' association, so he won't return to the bargaining table and he won't play a full hockey season.
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman says it looks as if a full-82 game schedule "is not going to be a reality," as the lockout nears its seventh week.
Forget about a deal to save a full hockey season: the NHL and the players' association can't even agree to get together to talk.
The little hope that existed for a full NHL season appears to be gone.
The little hope that existed for a full NHL season appears to be gone.
The NHL's next cuts will be the deepest and most costly.
The NHL and the players' association agree on one thing: Thursday was a bad day at the negotiating table.
The NHL wiped out the third week of the regular season Friday as the lockout dragged on, leaving no more wiggle room if the league hopes to play a full 82-game schedule.
My favorite part of the latest CBA proposal by NHL owners is the word "mutual." As in: The deal will be for six years, with a "mutual option" for a seventh. Given the increasingly strained relations between the two sides, it's hard to imagine them mutually agreeing on much of anything — now or then.
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman received three counterproposals from the players' association on Thursday and left the negotiating table "thoroughly disappointed."
The NHL's collective bargaining talks are on hold until Friday.
The NHL's collective bargaining talks are on hold until Friday.
The plywood sheets filling in for shattered windows on the historic Hudson's Bay Co. department store Thursday were turned into a canvas for expressing a city's embarrassment.
