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NHL cancels regular-season games through Oct. 24 10.04.12 at 2:14 pm ET
By DJ Bean

The NHL announced Thursday that it has cancelled regular-season games through Oct. 24. The regular season was set to kick off next week, but the lack of a collective bargaining agreement between the players and owners has led to the owners locking the players out.

The Bruins will miss six games due to the cancellations, including a pair of games against the Canadiens.

“We were extremely disappointed to have to make today’s announcement,” deputy commissioner Bill Daly said in a statement released by the league. “The game deserves better, the fans deserve better and the people who derive income from their connection to the NHL deserve better.

“We remain committed to doing everything in our power to forge an agreement that is fair to the players, fair to the teams and good for our fans.

“This is not about ‘winning’ or ‘losing’ a negotiation. This is about finding a solution that preserves the long-term health and stability of the League and the game. We are committed to getting this done.”

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  • old, bald and fat couch potato

    These jerks, owners, players and the league, keep making the best professional sport ever invented into a laughing stock of a league and why it will always be 4th and maybe even 5th behind soccer. And they wonder why teams are losing money. They shot themselves in the foot and can’t figure out why their foot hurts. As my father used to say, Idiotic idiots. 

  • Anonymous

    The NHL is right, we do deserve better. It is time for an overhaul of the NHL front offices. Any league that can justify two locked out seasons in less than ten years should not exist. The people in charge are pathetic, short minded and motivated purely by greed and nothing else. 

    How is it that these entitled NHL owners feel they have the right to deny the NHL fans an entire season so they can bicker over percentages of the shared revenue? 

    These NHL owners did not forge the league, they are not the people that created the sport. Most of them can’t even skate. Almost every one of them inherited their money or their team by accident of birth. What gives them the right to deny millions of people that grew up as fans of the sport, played and still play the sport, sacrifice their hard earned money to buy seats, jerseys, $9 dollars beers, our simple enjoyment of watching the sport and teams we have invested so much time and money on? 

    These owners are exactly what is wrong with this country. Greed has taken priority over everything. No one cares anymore about what is best, or what is just. Everyone is out to just screw everyone else and take as big a piece of the pie as possible. 

    For Jeremy Jacobs, if you were on fire I wouldn’t piss on you to put it out. The Bruins won the cup despite you, and it took longer than I have been alive you fraud.  

  • old, bald and fat couch potato

    Typical whiny liberal crap, deano. Keep blaming rich people and you will be just as miserable as the nhl.

  • tk

    Betteman is a slack jawed weasel! He says that he isn’t concerned about fans being angry and staying away from hockey when it returns because “we have the best fans in the world” he is a condescending little puke. The only thing that CONCERNS him is $ and grubbing up every cent he can. I would love to see fans boycott the nhl for a few games when they decide to start the season, and make these a-holes think for a minute!

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