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NEW YORK, N.Y. - The NHL lockout is well over 100 days long, and yet it is still hard to tell whether the league and the players' association are all that close to a deal to save the hockey season.

UFA, Russia - This wasn't your lockout team of 1995 or 2005, but much more was expected at the 2013 world junior hockey championship of a Canadian team bolstered by the absence of the NHL.

UFA, Russia - The International Ice Hockey Federation's disciplinary committee took the unusual step of publicly defending its four-game suspension to Canadian defenceman Griffin Reinhart at the world junior championship, saying the player swung his

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Defenceman Michal Plutnar put the split in splitsecond on Friday night, squeezing every tick out of the clock by scoring with .

RED DEER, Alta. - Brett Kulak scored once in regulation then the winner in the shootout as the Vancouver Giants edged the host Red Deer Rebels 5-4 on Friday in Western Hockey League action.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - The NHL's collective bargaining talks appear to be heading towards the brink.

TORONTO - The bulldozer that was DeMarcus Cousins smothered all the positive vibes building around the Raptors, and perhaps served as a reminder of how far Toronto still has to go.