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unusual facts about Lockout



1951 New Zealand waterfront dispute

Holland condemned the action as "industrial anarchy", and explicitly sought a mandate to deal with the lockout in the 1951 elections.

1990 Major League Baseball lockout

The 1990 Major League Baseball lockout was the seventh work stoppage in baseball since 1972.

2004–05 AHL season

The lockout also provided opportunity for several NHL arenas — including those in Anaheim, Buffalo, Nashville, San Jose and Tampa — to host AHL games during the season.

2004–05 St. Louis Blues season

However, its games were cancelled because of the lockout, that lasted from September 16, 2004 until July 22, 2005.

2011 NFL lockout

On March 1, 2011 Judge David S. Doty ruled that the NFL had been actively strategizing for a lockout of the players for more than two years.

On April 25, 2011, U.S. District Court judge Susan Richard Nelson invalidated the lockout and ordered the league to resume operations.

Clarkson Cup

When the 2004–05 NHL season was cancelled because of lockout, the Stanley Cup was not awarded for the first time since the 1918-19 Spanish Flu pandemic.

Deep Diver

These included a 430-foot lockout dive in 1967 (at the same location as the 1964 Man in Sea dive by Robert Sténuit and Jon Lindbergh) and a 700-foot lockout dive near Great Stirrup Cay in 1968.

Mora IK

During the 2012 NHL Lockout, Bobby Ryan of Anaheim Ducks and Anze Kopitar of the Stanley Cup-winning Los Angeles Kings joined the team to play with his brother, Gašper, for the duration of the lockout.

Nick Boynton

During the NHL lockout season of 2004–05, Boynton played for the Nottingham Panthers in the British Elite Ice Hockey League, memorably scoring the equalizing goal in the British Championship Grand Final.

Podtacular

The Podtacular video podcast, otherwise known as Pod TV debuted on May 13, 2006 with its first show on tips for the Halo 2 map Lockout.

Ronald Frank Thiemann

While acting President of Haverford College, Thiemann officiated at the May 1986 graduation ceremonies during which honorary doctorates were to be awarded to Edwin Bronner, Robert M. Gavin Jr., Eleanor Holmes Norton, and Andrew L. Lewis, Jr. Lewis, head of the Union Pacific Railroad had recently served as U.S. Secretary of Transportation in the cabinet of Ronald Reagan and overseen the lockout of striking air traffic controllers in 1981.

Vincent Jackson

Initially, Adam Schefter of ESPN reported that Vincent Jackson wanted compensation in the form of $10 million or become an unrestricted free agent when the lockout was over.

William M. Jennings Trophy

The most recent winners are Corey Crawford and Ray Emery of the Chicago Blackhawks, who allowed only 102 team goals against in the 48-game, lockout-shortened 2012–13 NHL season.

WSJS

WSJS had the NFL Carolina Panthers and the NBA Charlotte Hornets, but the NBA lockout gave WSJS a reason to add the team's games later in the season.


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