DENVER — The owner of The Dish Network said it pulled the Outdoor Life Network from its system after the cable channel failed to provide NHL games to the nation's second-largest satellite television provider.

EchoStar Communications Corp. spokesman Marc Lumpkin said Thursday the network did not show games on Oct. 10 and 11 and on Monday and Tuesday as advertised.

The contract dispute between EchoStar and OLN revolves around OLN's placement in a higher-priced channel package by Dish Network, which is distributed to fewer viewers.

OLN, owned by cable giant Comcast Corp., set a requirement that the channel must be seen by 40 percent of a cable or satellite TV system's viewers in order for it to broadcast the NHL games. It said the Dish Network has failed to meet that requirement.

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — The New York Rangers were forced to evacuate their Long Island hotel Thursday, just hours before their game against the New York Islanders, when a man wearing a surgical mask dumped a chemical on the floor before fleeing.The 23-year-old man, former hotel employee Scott Wallace, entered the hotel about 3 p.m., deliberately spilled the chemical on the floor of the rotunda area and then fled, Nassau County police said.The chemical later was found to be harmless, and no one was injured.Wallace was arrested several hours later, police said in a news release. The charges against him hadn't been determined.