Sentences with phrase «last lockout»

The Illitch Family was allegedly more vocal to getting back to playing hockey during the last lockout.

They've said that the Big House will host next year's Winter Classic between Detroit and Toronto, which will be a change of pace from what happened during the last lockout.

Then Cuban talks about how the owners could have fixed their problems during the last lockout, and how they need to fix their problems now.

That might seem far - fetched given that the NHL has touted its revenue growth since the last lockout, from $ 2.2 billion in» 03 — 04, the season before the work stoppage, to $ 3.3 billion last year.

For the players, among the key issues is the NHL's request for wage rollbacks of around 19 per cent, something many players are resistant to, especially given the large increases in NHL revenue in recent years — up 50 per cent to $ 3.3 billion, in the years since the last lockout.

South of the border, bureaucrats in St. Paul, Minn., claim their city took a US$ 60 - million hit during the last lockout.

In the decade leading up to the last lockout, the average NHL salary increased by more than three times, totalling $ 1.83 million for the 2003 - 04 season, according to a 2005 article in the journal Monthly Labor Review.

During the last lockout, his league received good publicity when NHL players flocked to Sweden.

After all, their interest comes with some history: during the last lockout, nearly 400 NHL players signed with European clubs.

Estimates vary, but most reports believe that somewhere between 70 and 100 NHL players suited up in the Russian Superleague (the predecessor to the KHL) during the last lockout.

Not exact matches

The NBA is headed to deadline day, with perhaps one last chance to avoid a lockout.

While it is unclear how long an eventual lockout might last, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced that the federal government is not considering back - to - work legislation.

Last week, the National Hockey League's commissioner was asked if he worried about fans deserting the league should it suffer a third lockout during his tenure.

But if the current CBA expires on Sept. 15 without a resolution, the resulting lockout would be the third in the last 18 years, all under Bettman's tenure.

The last time Canada Post experienced a work stoppage was in 2011, which included 10 days of rotating strikes and a lockout before employees were legislated back to work by Ottawa.

Last fall, Bill Guerin had a simple and surprising message for NBA players already losing games to a lockout: it's not worth fighting the owners, so get a deal done.

Minnesota Public Radio has already dissected St. Paul's claim that $ 60 million was lost during the last NHL lockout.

Bar owners in New York lost millions and had to cut back on staffing during last year's NBA lockout.

This most provocative year of player movement — culminating in last week's flurry of deals at the trade deadline — is about to give way to a self - immolating lockout that promises to reinvent every aspect of NBA business.

You have to go back to 2006 for the last time a top - 4 seed in the West had less than 50 wins (or its lockout equivalent).

The Magic considered trading Hardaway at midseason last year and had been expected to listen to offers for him again when the lockout ended.

Knowing that Greg Ostertag isn't wheezing through an intrasquad scrimmage won't leave a void in anyone's life, but last week's cancellation of preseason games through Oct. 16 was significant because the owners» lockout became tangible after months of being nothing but an off - season abstraction.

(In his worst public moment of the lockout, Bettman said last December that each franchise had to be free to set its own ticket prices.

The last NHL lockout, the owners demanded that the players accept everything, and when the players thought that was ridiculous, the owners cancelled the season.

In 2004 - 2005 when the lockout lasted the whole year, and the All - Star game was cancelled, and the Atlanta Thrashers were supposed to be the host.

As for Fayne, he went from 82 games in 2011 - 12 to 11 scratches in the lockout season, to 10 scratches in the first month of last season.

Hornets President Hugh Weber said the team's revenue is $ 4 million ahead of this time last year, having reportedly sold more than 9,000 season tickets and adding sponsors such as Chevron during the lockout.

The Forestville School system is in lockout status this morning, after a threat was made last night.

Last year, stars like the Oklahoma City Thunder's Kevin Durant were more available to show up because of the NBA lockout.

Last week, I was able to «clean» two 100 - lb Dumbbells to my shoulders and then press them overhead to lockout for two sets of singles.

Lucy is the latest from writer / director Luc Besson, whose last couple of movies (The Family, The Lady) have been moderate misfires, but who also gave us Léon: The Professional, The Fifth Element and (as writer only) the Transporter and Taken series, not to mention the nuttiest action flick of 2012, Lockout.

Goon: Last of the Enforcers sees Doug and his team, the Halifax Highlanders, joining several new players in a pro hockey lockout.

Last, but not least there is no curfew, no lockout at night!

Lennie James voices Lord Shaxx having starred as Morgan Jones in The Walking Dead, Harry Shaw in Lockout and Number 147 in The Prisoner remake, while Peter Stormare voices Arach Jalaal having starred in Mercury Rising and Armageddon opposite Bruce Willis, Minority Report opposite Tom Cruise, The Last Stand opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger and various videogames such as Mattias Nilsson in Mercenaries 1 and 2, Pvt. Johann Strauss in Quake 4, Jorunn the Skald King in Elder Scrolls Online, Dead Drop Orbit in Destiny and Dr. Hill in Until Dawn.

The dead puck era in the National Hockey began roughly in 1995 and lasted through the lockout of 2004.