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NHL could use legal channels to get its way.(The Orange County Register)
Byline: Dan Wood
The NHL lockout is nearly two weeks old, and previously fruitless negotiations between the dormant league and the players association remain in a "cooling-off period." Simply, there is no end in sight to the stalemate that jeopardizes the 2004-05 season and perhaps the very existence of the NHL.
Increasingly, people inside and close to the game believe that the standoff between NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, NHLPA executive director Bob Goodenow and their respective lieutenants might eventually wind up in court.
Though he denied any such plans during his Sept. 15 announcement of the lockout, Bettman and the league hold the option of seeking an impasse declaration through legal avenues in an attempt to reopen the NHL under their own unilateral economic framework.
"It's pretty fair to say we're at impasse right now," Bettman said hours before the lockout began. "At some point, we could say 'We're ...
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