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	NHL Commissioner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		National Hockey League Commissioner is the highest executive official since 1993.
		Prior to 1993, the position was NHL President.
		The title change was apparently to make the terminology similar with that used in other major North American sports leagues.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/NHL_Commissioner (65 words)

	Toronto Maple Leafs Fan Site! Catch The TML Fever.
		NHL talks end after 4 1/2 hours in Toronto, concluding, 'two good days of communication' and 'good dialogue.' There are no immediate plans to meet again.
		NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and NHLPA senior director Bob Goodenow are invited back to the table for talks, which last nine hours in a New York hotel.
		The NHL announces a news conference for Feb. 16 where commissioner Gary Bettman is expected to cancel the regular season and playoffs.
	www.tmlfever.com /Archives2.html (1296 words)

	NHL CBA
		The minimum NHL player salary in 2005-06 and 2006-07 will be $450,000; $475,000 in 2007-08 and 2008-09; $500,000 in 2009-10 and 2010-11, and $525,000 in 2011-12 (to the extent the CBA is extended by the Union).
		NHL, the NHL Shield, the word mark and image of the Stanley Cup, and NHL Conference logos are registered trademarks of the National Hockey League.
		All NHL logos and marks and NHL team logos and marks as well as all other proprietary materials depicted herein are the property of the NHL and the respective NHL teams and may not be reproduced without the prior written consent of NHL Enterprises, L.P. (c) 2005 NHL.
	www.nhlcbanews.com (2099 words)

	ABC News: NHL Players Agree to Accept Salary Cap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman speaks with the media after meetings with the NHL Players Association in Toronto, Wednesday Feb. 9, 2005 in Toronto.
		The NHL season will be cancelled unless the two sides can start putting pen to paper on a labour agreement this weekend, commissioner Gary Bettman said Wednesday.
		Even while the negotiations were going on, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman had already planned to announce the cancellation of the season Wednesday, a source close to the negotiations told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Monday.
	abcnews.go.com /Sports/wireStory?id=501200 (386 words)

	Boston.com / Sports / Hockey / NHL cancels entire season in a first for sports
		The commissioner vowed the NHL will play next season, though he predicted the league would continue to lose money for at least two more years, even if the players were to agree to terms favorable to the owners.
		Both sides acknowledged that fans are unlikely to rush back to NHL arenas, which means the league's revenues could drop sharply and television networks, which have shown little interest in the sport, would grow even more reluctant to invest in the league.
		The NHL locked out its 700 players in September, more than a year after the owners first proposed a new labor agreement that would have established a salary cap for teams and would have linked the cap to a percentage of the league's annual revenues.
	www.boston.com /sports/hockey/articles/2005/02/17/nhl_cancels_entire_season_in_a_first_for_sports (548 words)

	SI.com - 2003 NHL Playoffs - Commissioner tries to put positive spin on game's woes - Sunday June 01, 2003 02:11 AM
		NHL commissioner Gary Bettman ceremonially delegated his duties to U.S. Army helicopter pilot Roger Farina as the Stanley Cup finals began Tuesday.
		Many of the NHL's traditionalists may be in self-denial, but all signs indicate the league has problems, and they are many, and they aren't likely to get addressed in the short term.
		That's where hockey purists, and there are many in prominent positions among NHL teams, need not worry: nothing in the sport moves at that speed except for an Al MacInnis slap shot.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /hockey/2003/playoffs/news/2003/05/31/nhl_problems_ap (889 words)

	Boston.com / Sports / Hockey / NHL labor dispute ices hockey season (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman announced the end of the NHL season during a news conference Wednesday.
		The NHL canceled what was left of its decimated schedule Wednesday after a round of last-gasp negotiations failed to resolve differences over a salary cap -- the flash-point issue that led to a lockout.
		The NHL lost the first season of its two-year broadcasting agreement with NBC that was supposed to begin this season, a revenue-sharing deal in which the network is not even paying rights fees.
	www.boston.com /sports/hockey/articles/2005/02/16/game_off_nhl_cancels_remainder_of_season (527 words)

	[Alerts] Statement on the NHL Cancellation of the 2004-05 Season
		Now that Commissioner Bettman has driven the final icy stake into the hearts of hockey fans by cancelling the NHL season, it is apparent that compromise was never an option.
		Commissioner Bettman and the NHL owners used the opportunity to repeatedly push dubious claims that player salaries are to blame for high ticket prices and the league’s economic difficulties.
		The NHL has taken its fans and host cities of the league for granted and in so doing, have re-defined the status of professional hockey in North America for years to come.
	two.pairlist.net /pipermail/alerts/2005/000053.html (647 words)

	CBC Montreal - NHL, players' union heading back to the table (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Neither NHL commissioner Bettman nor Bob Goodenow, the NHLPA's executive director, attended the bargaining sessions.
		The NHL and union have failed to negotiate a new CBA since Bettman locked out the players last Sept. 15 and cancelled the 2004-05 season on Feb. 16.
		On the surface this could be a massive blow for the NHL, as the league, having already lost a full season because of a labour dispute with the players' union, would lose major exposure in the U.S. without the ESPN deal.
	montreal.cbc.ca /regional/servlet/View?filename=qc-nhl20050530 (330 words)

	Time for NHL to make wholesale rule changes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and Players Association boss Bob Goodenow are set to meet again tomorrow, a meeting that would have been more appropriate had it been held on Friday, April 1.
		If anybody thinks NHL arenas are going to open their doors and see throngs of fans pay the same prices as they did, before being used and abused for a year, they're dreaming in Technicolor.
		During this season's NHL meltdown, the American Hockey League has experimented with several new looks that are apt to gain approval from general managers at this week's meeting.
	www.eagletribune.com /news/stories/20050403/SP_005.htm (2456 words)

	CBC Sports: Game over: NHL cancels season
		NHL commissioner Gary Bettman cancelled the 2004-05 season on Wednesday.
		Not only that, but Bettman's announcement means the NHL must suffer the indignity of becoming the first of North America's four major professional sports leagues to lose an entire regular season because of a labour dispute.
		The 1995 NHL lockout ended after 103 days when the players accepted a last-ditch offer following 48 hours of intense negotiations, and a 48-game season was salvaged.
	www.cbc.ca /story/sports/national/2005/02/16/Sports/noseasontest050216b.html (999 words)

	WinterSports2002.com - Bettman isn't ready to commit for 2006
		WEST VALLEY CITY — A defensive NHL commissioner made no commitment Tuesday to participation by players from his league in future Winter Olympics and suggested international hockey should consider itself blessed by the presence of the world's greatest hockey players in Salt Lake.
		NHL commissioner Gary Bettman attributes the exciting Olympic hockey action to the players, not the rules.
		However, if the NHL is playing four years from now, IIHF officials just hope time is taken for participation by everyone in a competition that — most of the world would probably agree, even if Bettman wouldn't — is bigger than any individual league.
	deseretnews.com /oly/view/print/0,4060,70001202,00.html (877 words)

	NHL, players agree to meet again \| ajc.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		NHL labor talks resumed Wednesday without the main antagonists in the room — and with, by all accounts, some encouraging signs.
		Three representatives of each side — NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and Players Association executive director Bob Goodenow notably not among them — met for five hours at Chicago's O'Hare Airport and made enough headway that they agreed to meet again, perhaps as soon as Thursday in Toronto.
		The meeting, the first between the sides in more than a month, was arranged at the initiative of Vancouver Canucks center Trevor Linden, who said he did not want to lose the season without trying to kick-start negotiations.
	www.ajc.com /sports/content/sports/0105/20nhl.html (420 words)

	ESPN.com: NHL LOCKOUT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The NHL wants the players' association to disavow reports it is threatening to decertify agents should they represent replacement players.
		The board of governors April meeting is believed to be a forum for commissioner Gary Bettman to outline a plan to use replacement players in 2005-06 should a new CBA not be reached in the near future.
		The NHL canceled what little was left of the season Wednesday after a series of last-minute offers were rejected on the final day of negotiations.
	sports.espn.go.com /nhl/feature/featureStory?page=nhlcba (1984 words)

	National Hockey League - CBS SportsLine.com
		The NHL claims that the status quo threatens the viability of the league because 75 percent of its $2 billion in revenue goes to salaries, which produced a collective $273 million loss in 2002-03, and $224 million last season.
		NHL: They've prepared for a long fight by putting together a $300 million war chest to ride out the cost of day-to-day operations while the arenas remain dark.
		The official deal between the NHL and its players' association was negotiated in 1976 and remained in place until a new agreement was reached in August 1981.
	www.sportsline.com /nhl/story/7663388 (1107 words)

	NHL Season Put on Ice (washingtonpost.com)
		When NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman formally cancelled the 2004-2005 season yesterday, the league became the first major professional sport in North America to lose an entire season over labor problems, driving speculation about where the 88-year-old NHL goes from here and whether it can survive.
		The flurry of meetings and phone calls over the last few weeks between the union and NHL owners failed to stop the downward spiral that began with the owners' lockout of players five months ago, which had wiped out 830 of the 1,230 regular season games.
		The league shut down Sept. 15, when the NHL's 30 owners, tired of what they said were intolerable financial losses, locked the doors to arenas and practice facilities until the players agreed to a cost structure that would rein in salaries.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A30826-2005Feb16.html (1133 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Other Sport \| US Sport \| NHL calls time on 2004/05 season
		The NHL season has been cancelled after players and owners failed to agree on a new collective bargaining deal.
		NHL commissioner Gary Bettman broke the news after a final deadline for resolution passed on Wednesday.
		And the Stanley Cup - the top prize in NHL - will not be awarded for the first time since 1919, when a flu epidemic forced the finals to be called off.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport2/hi/other_sports/us_sport/4265789.stm (359 words)

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		In May or June 1993, co-defendant Patrick Smythe, then the president and chief operations officer of NHL=s parent company, informed NHL=s chief financial officer he was negotiating the acquisition of up to $200 million in reinsurance for the company=s annuity portfolio, and that NHL needed to accumulate substantial liquid assets to fund the transaction.
		The Commissioner next asserts even if the Global Defendants had no actual knowledge of the fraudulent schemes against NHL, they should be liable to the company because they were willfully blind toward the criminal conduct.
		The Commissioner correctly asserts Schneiderman was not available for questioning before the district court ruled on the motion for summary judgment; however, her declaration contains only cumulative evidence.
	www.birminghambar.org /data/SlipOpinions/11thCir/01-16006.htm (3510 words)

	Gary Bettman (1993-Present)
		Born in Queens, New York on June 2, 1952 Gary Bettman became the first Commissioner in the NHL after the role of NHL President was restructured in 1993.
		Among his first decisions was to rename the NHL's conferences and division to carry geographical names instead of the names of NHL pioneers.
		During Gary Bettmans's tenure the NHL became a global sport as for the first time preseason games were played in Europe and regular season games in Japan, as the NHL started to shut down their season for a few weeks during the Olympics so their players could play in the Winter Games starting in 1998.
	www.sportsecyclopedia.com /nhl/comish/bettman.html (611 words)

	The Oakland Press: Local News: Commissioner calls off season after three days of negotiations
		NHL commissioner Gary Bettman put the 2004-05 season to rest after a three-day flurry of negotiations.
		NHL players currently average $1.8 million in salary per season, and the owners said that player costs account for 75 percent of revenue.
		At that point, when the NHL said it would accept a salary cap without linkage, the union proposed a $52 million soft cap and eventually went down to $49 million.
	www.theoaklandpress.com /stories/021705/loc_20050217021.shtml (1036 words)

	Sympatico / MSN : News : CTV.ca
		Despite a reported last-ditch effort to save the hockey season in yet another round of secret meetings between the league and its locked-out players' association on Monday, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman is expected to announce the cancellation of the 2004-05 season on Wednesday.
		The NHL claims its player costs are out of whack compared to other leagues.
		One high-profile NHL veteran said Sunday if this season is cancelled, don't necessarily count on hockey in 2005-06 either.
	sympaticomsn.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1108310331508_10?hub=topstories (778 words)

	CANOE -- SLAM! Sports - Columnists - Garrioch: Q&A with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman
		NHL commissioner Gary Bettman will make the trip to Ottawa this weekend for the 2005 entry draft at the Westin Hotel.
		Bettman is thrilled a new collective bargaining agreement has been reached with the NHL Players' Association and he's bullish on the league's future following the bitter dispute that cost the 2004-05 season.
		I know people are very excited about Sidney coming to the NHL and he in his interviews around the lottery was very excited about coming.
	slam.canoe.ca /Slam/Columnists/Garrioch/2005/07/28/1150873-sun.html (1309 words)

	Ozeform.com - NHL News & Betting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Just two days after NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman announced the 2004-05 season was cancelled the NHL and the Players' Association scheduled a meeting in New York on Saturday at the request of the league.
		Despite a round of meetings at the 11th hour the NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman announced at a news conference on Wednesday that the 2004-05 season is cancelled.
		The 2004/05 NHL season looks set to be abandoned after neither the NHL nor the players' union did anything on Saturday to save what remained of the season.
	ozeform.com /site/sports_news/NHLnews.aspx?category=NHL&...+League (388 words)

	NHL commissioner reiterates league's stand against luxury tax - PittsburghLIVE.com
		EDMONTON, Alberta - NHL commissioner Gary Bettman reiterated the league's position that it won't consider the players' proposed luxury tax.
		Bettman, who received a standing ovation at the end of his speech, also reiterated that the owners don't have a drop-dead date for when they would have to pull the plug on the 2004-05 season.
		The NHL and NHLPA haven't had a formal collective bargaining session since Sept. 9 in Toronto, when the league officially rejected the union's luxury tax-based proposal.
	www.pittsburghlive.com:8000 /x/tribune-review/sports/s_278402.html (207 words)

	NHL sets stage for showdowns in other sports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		By coincidence or calculation, the NHL and its players union went to the head of the line for contract negotiations when the previous hockey contract was extended in 1997 to 2004.
		By then, the NHL's Gary Bettman may have become the first commissioner in pro sports to win a showdown with a players union, reining in player salaries and boosting owner profits.
		But if the NHL succeeds in rolling back salaries -- it has turned up its nose at the 24 percent giveback offered by the players union -- the NBA is sure to revisit the issue later this year.
	www.eagletribune.com /news/stories/20050103/SP_006.htm (1023 words)

	CBC Sports: NHL to scrap season Wednesday
		Barring a miracle, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman is expected to cancel the 2004-05 season on Wednesday.
		The two "met for several hours" and that "no progress was made in the collective bargaining process," according to the NHL's public relations department in a statement Monday night.
		The NHL has maintained cost certainty — a salary cap — is the only way to ensure future financial stability and parity.
	www.cbc.ca /story/sports/national/2005/02/14/Sports/nhllockout050214.html (415 words)

	Bettman Expected to Scrap NHL Season (washingtonpost.com)
		NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman has scheduled a news conference in New York for 1 p.m.
		NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman is expected to cancel the 2004-05 season tomorrow, which would mark the first time since 1919 that the Stanley Cup is not awarded.
		The NHL has awarded the Stanley Cup every year since 1893, with the exception of 1919 when the finals were wiped out by a flu epidemic.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A23509-2005Feb14.html (532 words)

	NHL Fans' Association - News - Fans' association to meet Commissioner...
		The NHL and its owners; NHL players (past and present); the Hockey Hall of Fame; the Canadian Hockey Association; the Canadian Hockey League; and Canadian Women's Hockey are all represented at this summit, but hockey fans are not included.
		The NHLFA launched its Web site (www.nhlfa.com) in April 1998 to give NHL fans across North America and around the world a way to express their views on the game and to influence it for the better.
		The NHL initials are the property of the NHL, are used under license, and may not be reproduced without the prior written consent of NHL Enterprises, L.P. All rights reserved.
	www.nhlfa.com /news/nr04_15_99.asp (453 words)

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