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NHL Lockout – Gary Bettman and Donald Fehr return; top insiders worried about...
As the meetings between representatives of the NHL and NHLPA stretched into the late hours last night, the message getting through to the throngs of assembled media was often muted and sometimes...
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NHL Lockout: When it makes sense not to make a deal
The gap between the NHL and the NHLPA has diminished to the point that it’s almost unbelievable that a deal between the two sides hasn’t been reached yet. As one NHL governor told ESPN after looking at...
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NHL Lockout: When “take it or leave it” is nothing of the sort
Following the NHL lockout requires, among other things, a dark sense of humour. Both sides are prone to being economical with the truth, whether it’s Don Fehr holding a news conference where he...
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NHL Lockout: Does NHLPA vote mean negotiations are coming to an end, one way...
The NHLPA inched one step closer to moving its labour dispute with the NHL from the negotiating table to the courts on Thursday night. As per TSN’s Aaron Ward, the executive board has decided to hold a...
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NHL Lockout: Battle moves to the courts as league files class action...
After months of speculation that the NHLPA would take it’s labour dispute with the NHL to the courts, the league beat them to the punch, filing a class action complaint with a court in New York seeking...
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NHL Lockout: Does the NHLPA really mean to cease acting as a union?
The NHLPA began the process of dissolving their union over the past week, holding a player vote to authorize the executive board to file a disclaimer of interest. A disclaimer of interest would...
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NHL Lockout: Reported new offer moves league closer to NHLPA
According to top reporters at both TSN and Sportsnet, the NHL made a new offer to the NHLPA on Thursday. The main moves by the league (as reported by the former) are as follow: - An inclusion of one...
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NHL Lockout: Will the league’s latest offer lead to a breakthrough, or the...
The most interesting deadline in the current negotiations to end the lockout is not the mid-January date that currently appears to be the NHL’s zero hour for the 2012-13 season. The critical date now...
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NHL Lockout: Is the NHLPA demanding hundreds of millions in additional...
According to Ken Campbell of The Hockey News, the NHLPA proposal in New York today may contain a surprising new ask: that expansion and relocation fees (which Campbell estimates at $600 million) be...
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NHL Lockout: Gary Bettman is supposedly prepared to cancel the NHL season...
Under the cover of anonymity, a “veteran member of the NHL’s board of governors” made a surprising assertion: that NHL commissioner Gary Bettman could cancel the 2012-13 season as early as next...
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