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Another day ticked by without progress in the NHLs collective bargaining talks. The league and NHL Players Association were each holding firm on their most recent proposals Monday and have yet to even make plans to gather for another bargaining session this week. With a Thursday deadline looming to reach an agreement and salvage an 82-game season, the sides appeared to be at odds over how best to proceed. "(Im) not sure there is any reason to meet if there is nothing new to say," deputy commissioner Bill Daly told The Canadian Press in an email. "Our position was communicated to the union pretty clearly last Tuesday and then again on Thursday. "If they have a desire to meet with regard to the proposal we have on the table, they know how to reach us." The sides touched base by phone over the weekend following a busy few days that saw each of them table new offers. They had been expected to gather in New York at some point this week. "They say they want a deal but then they say they only want to meet if it is on their terms," said Steve Fehr, the NHLPAs special counsel. "Strange. That is not the way to reach an agreement. Bargaining is give and take -- not just take." Last Tuesday, the NHL proposed a 50-50 split of revenues across the board as part of a deal that would see a full regular season begin on Nov. 2. The union countered Thursday with three different proposals, which all moved towards 50-50 over the course of the deal. The biggest concern for the NHLPA is ensuring all current contracts are honoured in full. The league attempted to address that in its most recent offer, but NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr objected to the "make whole" provision because he felt future players would end up paying the price for current ones. The 37-day lockout has already seen 135 regular-season games wiped off the calendar. The NHL believes there would be enough time to add them back on and play a full season if an agreement could be reached in time to open abbreviated training camps on Friday. Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys China . The Laval linebacker, taken 10th overall in last weeks CFL draft by the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, has been invited to the Philadelphia Eagles rookie minicamp. Cheap NFL Jerseys From China .J. -- Fredy Montero came off the bench in the second half to score his fifth goal of the season, giving the Seattle Sounders a 2-2 tie with the New York Red Bulls on Sunday. http://jasonhavens.org/cheap.html . The Dutch needed a spark to ignite its sputtering campaign after losing 3-2 to Bayern Munich last week followed by a lacklustre 2-1 defeat to Bulgaria on Saturday. It came in the form of Ibrahim Afellay, who was playing his first international in nearly a year after recovering from a serious left knee injury.Skate Canada will send two entries to Paris for Trophee Eric Bompard. The competition, which is the fifth of six stops on the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, will take place beginning Friday at the Palais omnisports de Paris-Bercy. Canada will have a total of four athletes competing in pair and ice dance. In the pair discipline, 2012 Canadian Champions Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford will represent Canada. Duhamel and Radford won silver at their first assignment this season, Skate Canada International. Last season, they won bronze at Trophée Eric Bompard and Skate Canada International, aand placed fifth at both the 2012 ISU World Figure Skating Championships and the ISU Grand Prix Final.dddddddddddd The team is coached by Richard Gauthier and Bruno Marcotte at CPA Saint-Léonard in Montreal, Que. Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier will be the Canadian entry in ice dance. This season, Gilles and Poirier placed fourth at their first assignment, Skate Canada International, and won gold at the 2012 U.S. International Figure Skating Classic, a senior international competition. They are coached by Carol Lane and Juris Razguliaevs at Ice Dance Elite in Scarborough, ON. ' ' '