NHL, Union Return To Bargaining Table Tuesday
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.
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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.
Mike Modano made his mark long before he and the Minnesota North Stars relocated to Dallas and brought hockey to the Sun Belt. Once he got there in 1993, he didn't miss a beat.
Professional hockey Hall of Famer Wayne Gretzky is still more optimistic than everybody else when it comes to the NHL lockout ending at a somewhat reasonable time.
In what's becoming a rather familiar storyline in the ongoing CBA discussions, no progress appears to have been made during Wednesday's meetings in New York.
The good news? The NHL and NHLPA are going to resume negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement on Wednesday and Thursday in New York. The bad news? They still aren't going to be discussing how to split the hockey-related revenue.
One week before the regular season was slated to begin, the NHL announced Thursday the cancellation of the 2012-13 schedule through October 24.
The rhetoric is rising, while the time before the planned start of the NHL regular season is running out.
The NHL and NHLPA resumed talks on Tuesday, as the two sides continue to search for a resolution to the NHL lockout. But following a two-hour meeting, there was no good news.
Will they play NHL hockey this year? That is the question. Everybody hopes the answer will be yes, but not everybody thinks the answer will be yes. Wayne Gretzky does, though.
The NHL and NHLPA wrapped up three straight days of negotiating Sunday and will now take a step back to have internal discussions concerning a new collective bargaining agreement.
The NHL announced Thursday the cancellation of the remainder of the 2012 preseason schedule.
Former NHL star Mike Modano, who was a member of the Stars when the 2004-2005 season was lost, recently told ESPN of the work stoppage. "It was a waste of time," he said.
The league is wiping out all games through Sept. 30, a move it deems "necessary because of the absence of a collective bargaining agreement.''
As the owner of the American Hockey League's Syracuse Crunch, Howard Dolgon isn't enamored with another NHL lockout, even though it's good for business.
Die-hard hockey fans might need to invest in some classic NHL games on DVD. It might be the only taste of hockey for months. There's no telling when the NHL lockout will end.
The Stars have signed goaltender Kari Lehtonen to a five-year contract extension worth $29.5 million. The deal secures the eight-year veteran through the 2017-18 season.
With only two days left to avoid another damaging NHL lockout, players and owners huddled in separate circles to discuss what now seems inevitable.
Representatives from the National Hockey League and its players association met for three hours on Wednesday, without significant progress in resolving a labor dispute which threatens to force a lockout at the end of the week.
