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Date Posted: 14:28:53 01/19/05 Wed
In reply to:
Psychobunny
's message, "Trevor Linden is my hero!" on 13:43:19 01/19/05 Wed
>Hopefully the talks in chicago went well today. Trevor
>Linden is my hero! And not bad looking either, now
>that I"m thinking about it.
Ive heard he's a good guy all around. He is a cutie, though, in a smart glasses-wearing way.
Canadian Press
1/19/2005
NHL talks ended Wednesday after nearly five hours at Chicago's O'Hare Airport, with the promise to meet again.
The session started at 11:15am et and ended at 4:10 pm et.
Trevor Linden, the NHL Players' Association president, NHLPA senior director Ted Saskin and outside counsel John McCambridge met in an airport lounge with NHL board of governors chairman Harley Hotchkiss, NHL executive vice-president Bill Daly and league outside counsel Bob Batterman.
"We engaged in good dialogue today and will continue our discussions in the near future," said Linden in a statement. "We will not make any further comment at this time."
The group was hoping to kick-start 11th-hour labour talks. It's only the third meeting between the two sides since Sept. 9.
Daly and Saskin, in a brief media scrum afterwards, said a future meeting would be held but did not give further details.
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman, NHLPA executive director Bob Goodenow and the rest of the negotiating crews were not present for this round of talks.
It's the first meeting between the two sides since Dec. 14 in Toronto, when the NHL rejected the union's Dec. 9 proposal and the NHLPA responded by rejecting the league's counter-offer.
More than half of the NHL season has already been scrapped by the lockout, which was announced Sept. 15 by Bettman. Through Wednesday, 662 of the season's 1,230 regular-season games had gone by the wayside.
The league has never announced a drop-dead date to save the season, but few believe there can be hockey this season if there's no agreement before the end of the month.
None of the four major professional sports in North America has ever gone beginning to end without a single game played. The Stanley Cup is in danger of not being awarded for the first time since the Spanish flu wiped out the 1919 final. Even the Second World War couldn't stop the Stanley Cup playoffs.
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