NHL Offers 50-50 Split In Hope Of Ending Lockout, Salvaging Full Season
The NHL has made a new offer to the players' association that proposes a 50-50 split of hockey-related revenue and a full 82-game season starting Nov. 2.
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The NHL has made a new offer to the players' association that proposes a 50-50 split of hockey-related revenue and a full 82-game season starting Nov. 2.
The sides met twice on Wednesday. If talks go well on Thursday, or if the scheduled work can't be completed, there could be another day of discussions on Friday.
Like all metropolitan area hockey fans, I was looking forward to the scheduled start of a new season next week. But the NHL, in its infinite idiocy, made the announcement yesterday of the first of likely many game cancellations due to the owner's lockout.
It's time for the league's owners to voice their concerns and let Bettman know that he does not have the authority to ruin the NHL. The fans need to get louder and voice their concerns as well. The time is now, or the season will be gone before you know it.
An NHL lockout has forced the cancellation of regular-season hockey games for the second time in seven years. The league on Thursday wiped out 82 games through Oct. 24 — beginning with four on Oct. 11, which would have been opening night.
For unhappy hockey fans, the hits just keep on coming.
The NHL and NHLPA both said the same thing to hockey fans: Screw you and your loyalty to our league!
Some of the NHL's biggest stars are rushing to Europe with no end to the lockout in sight.
The clock struck midnight, and the NHL turned into another sports league closed for business.
Rangers' McDonagh visited the Yankee Stadium Bleacher Creatures on Saturday.
With only two days left to avoid another damaging NHL lockout, players and owners huddled in separate circles to discuss what now seems inevitable.
Let's fast-forward from my mid-80s, NHL-crazed days at Binghamton: The NHL might be canceling its season for a second time in less than ten years. And hardly anyone cares.
The drop of the puck isn't happening anytime soon. A lengthy NHL lockout appears to be on the horizon. The owners and NHLPA aren't just far apart, now they're firing shots at one another.
The Rangers re-signed veteran defenseman Steve Eminger on Monday afternoon.
Hockey season is still a little way off. So, before the New York Rangers hit the ice, the team and their coach will be hosting the Rangers Dog Walk.
