NEW YORK (AP) ? If time spent at the bargaining table indicates progress, the NHL and the locked-out players' association finally could be on their way to making a deal to get hockey back on the ice. "The National Hockey League's negotiating committee met with representatives of the National Hockey League Players' Association for approximately 5� hours," NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly said in a statement Wednesday night. The lockout, which went into effect Sept. 16 after the previous collective bargaining agreement expired, has already forced the cancellation of 327 regular-season games ? including the New Year's Day outdoor Winter Classic in Michigan. Back in October, the players' association responded to an NHL offer with three of its own, but all of those were quickly dismissed by the league ? leading to nearly three weeks without face-to-face discussions. The NHL has moved toward the players' side in the contentious issue of the "make-whole" provision and whose share of the economic pie that money will come from.
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