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NHL’s Beckman says sides are still far apart

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NHL Players' Association executive director Donald Fehr, center, arrives Wednesday for labor talks at NHL headquarters in New York with his brother, NHLPA counsel Steven Fehr.

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NHL talks quickly broke off again Wednesday after the players made a new proposal they said left sides separated by less than $40 million annually over a five-year contract and Commissioner Gary Bettman immediately rejected the plan, saying "we're still far apart." On the 67th day of a lockout that already has led to the cancellation of more than a quarter of the regular season, the sides didn't set a date to get back together.