Hope Fading For Deal To Save NHL Season
With no negotiations scheduled, and overall communication shutting down, too, the NHL appears to be getting close to calling off more games, putting the entire hockey season in jeopardy.
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With no negotiations scheduled, and overall communication shutting down, too, the NHL appears to be getting close to calling off more games, putting the entire hockey season in jeopardy.
Talks between the NHL and the players' association have resumed, the third straight day the sides are meeting in an effort to end the lockout. Thursday marks the 54th day of the lockout.
The NHL and the players' association are returning to the bargaining table Tuesday, hoping momentum generated over the weekend can lead to a long-awaited labor deal.
NHL labor talks are set to resume after more than two weeks off and a whole lot of canceled games, and that talking is music to the ears of Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings.
The NHL has canceled all its games through the end of November because of the labor dispute between owners and players.
With only hours remaining before an NHL-imposed deadline to make a deal with the players' association and preserve a full hockey season, all was quiet between the sides.
A glimmer of hope that progress might be made in the NHL lockout was quickly extinguished Tuesday.
The NHL and the players' association are still talking, but have no plans yet to return to the bargaining table.
A total of 135 games through Nov. 1 have been canceled, which amounts to 11 percent of the season.
The NHLPA supplied three separate proposals to the NHL on Thursday in an effort to end the league's ongoing lockout. The NHL, however, turned down all three proposals.
