2012 NHL Pre-season cancelled

NHL Lockout 2012: 5 Nashville Predators Pre-season Games Cancelled

Now that we're several days into NHL Lockout 2012, games are starting to get cancelled, pre-season ones anyway:
The NHL's release reads:

The National Hockey League announced today the cancellation of the 2012 preseason schedule through Sept. 30. In addition, the 2012 Kraft Hockeyville preseason game, scheduled for Oct. 3 in Belleville, Ontario, has been postponed to 2013.
The cancellation of the schedule was necessary because of the absence of a Collective Bargaining Agreement between the NHL Players' Association and the NHL.
While the Kraft Hockeyville game has been postponed, many of the scheduled celebrations in the winning community of Stirling-Rawdon, Ontario, will proceed as planned beginning on September 30.

For the Nashville Predators, this means that 5 games are cancelled, including 2 dates at Bridgestone Arena:

Date	Opponent	Location	Time (CT)
Mon, Sept 24	@ Florida Panthers	Sunrise, FL	1:30 pm
Mon, Sept 24	@ Florida Panthers	Sunrise, FL	6 pm
Tue, Sept 25	ST. LOUIS BLUES	Bridgestone Arena	7 pm
Fri, Sept 28	@ Carolina Hurricanes	Raleigh, NC	6 pm
Sat, Sept 29	CAROLINA HURRICANES	Bridgestone Arena	7 pm

It's not just the Nashville Predators who have cancelled their pre-season schedule.  The NHL canceled its entire September preseason game schedule on Wednesday, the first on-ice casualty of the four-day lockout. The league is wiping out all games through Sept. 30, a move it deems "necessary because of the absence of a collective bargaining agreement" with the players' association. The NHL also said the 2012 Kraft Hockeyville preseason game, scheduled for Oct. 3 in Belleville, Ontario, has been postponed until 2013, bringing the total to 60 games called off on Wednesday. The regular season is scheduled to begin on Oct. 11. NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly said the league has "no set policy on cancellations" of other games. Also Wednesday, a person familiar with the plan says NHL employees at the league offices will switch to a four-day work week Oct. 1 because of the lockout. The move will effectively cut salaries by 20 percent. The person spoke on condition of anonymity Wednesday because the NHL hadn't made the plan public. The news was first reported by The Canadian Press. The Florida Panthers and Ottawa Senators have let staff go because of the lockout, while several other teams have said they don't have any plans to do so as of now.