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Meetings scheduled today in lockout

 
Published Oct. 10, 2012

NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly confirmed that the league and the locked-out players union will meet today and Thursday in new York, but said core economic issues at the heart of the dispute between the sides won't be addressed.

In an interview on the Hockey Night in Canada show on Sirius Radio, Daly said the NHL and NHL Players Association need to agree on some smaller issues to move forward on how to divide revenues, the big sticking point between the sides.

Daly said the meetings will be "an effort to follow up on some of the issues we were (discussing) about a week ago. And get as many of these side issues in the can as possible, because ultimately, knock on wood, we're going to reach an agreement and hopefully we're going to be moving very, very quickly to get the players back on the ice."

All regular-season games through Oct. 24 have been canceled.

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