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MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) ??” The upcoming National Hockey League season in North America is still subject to threat after three straight days of labor meetings between NHL chiefs and the Players Association fall of the curtained in a stalemate.

After the meeting, hl to dissolve the collective bargaining agreement,

neither side uttered confidence in preventing a work stoppage, which would happen when the now passing agreement ends September 15.

"It is now September 2 and we have les than sum of two units short weeks before the expiration of the collective bargaining agreement," NHL executive vice president Bill Daly said in a statement.

"We continue to be frustrated and affected that instead of using the short time available to us to talk about potential solutions to our riddles we have been using it to revisit enthrall matter we have been discussing with the union leadership for the last five years."

The bring under rule matter Daly referred to is the detailed