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Sides talking but not to each other

By Scott Burnside
Special to ESPN.com

Tuesday, October 12, 2004

The National Hockey League's top negotiator, Bill Daly, says that by not talking to the National Hockey League Players' Association, the league is actually moving the process forward. Maybe that's why it feels as though this lockout has been going on for years, decades even, as opposed to simply moving in on the one-month mark. "We feel like we've been the proactive party in this relationship for quite some time now," Daly said. "Now we feel it's the union's turn to take a hard look at where t ...

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