NHL Files Suit, Labor Charge Against Union
Anticipating a possible antitrust suit, the NHL is bringing its labor fight against players to federal court.
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Anticipating a possible antitrust suit, the NHL is bringing its labor fight against players to federal court.
The NHL and the NHLPA met with federal mediators for a second straight day Thursday, but the meetings apparently were unproductive again.
This time - whenever the lockout ends - the league might be all out of tricks. They'll need to dig. And it could take years to recover from the wreckage.
A person familiar with the decision says the NHL has canceled all games through Dec. 30.
The NHL rejected the most recent offer from players for a collective bargaining agreement on Thursday, causing talks between the two sides to be suspended indefinitely.
Expectations for Tuesday's meeting involving a select group of owners and players were low, and there was even a sense that perhaps the players would be in over their heads during the talks and that it would be a waste of everyone's time.
With the lockout lingering into another week, the NHL labor talks are set to resume Tuesday with six owners and six players scheduled to meet while a couple of key figures remain on the sidelines of the negotiations.
The NHL and the NHLPA met with federal mediators for a second day on Thursday in an attempt to spur negotiations towards a new CBA, but the news was far from promising.
With the help of federal mediators, the NHL and the players' association got back to bargaining Wednesday after a week apart.
Federal mediators are entering the stalled NHL labor talks, with the season's first 2 1/2 months already lost because of the lockout.
The NHL is calling off all games through Dec. 14, plus the 2013 NHL All-Star Weekend scheduled for Jan. 26-27 in Columbus, Ohio.
Wednesday was the 67th day of the lockout. More than a quarter of the regular season already has been canceled.
The NHL and NHLPA will resume negotiations on Monday in an effort to end the lockout that has lasted more than two months. The sides last met on November 11 for 90 minutes.
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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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.
Both sides kept details of the meeting, which lasted over seven hours, close to the vest. That also could be taken as an optimistic sign that the second round of talks in four days went well.
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.
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.
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.
The first document is the 10-point offer and the second includes a detailed explanation of the proposal. Both documents are published in full on the league's website.
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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