Posted AT 2:14 AM EDT on 17/02/05
Curtain falls on NHL season
New York — Shortly after 1 p.m. Eastern time yesterday, Gary Bettman stepped into the rear of a hotel meeting room in New York, made a solemn, solitary walk to a microphone and took the National Hockey League, its owners and its players on a plunge into the unknown.
"Everyone associated with the NHL owes our fans an apology," Bettman, the league's commissioner, said in announcing the 2004-05 season was cancelled on the 154th day of a lockout.
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