NHLPA leader: Deal can be quick after breakthrough
A new NHL labor deal might not be as far off as it seems. Steve Fehr, special counsel to the NHL Players' Association, believes the collective ...
No progress made in new round of NHL labor talks
As quickly as NHL labor negotiations got going again, they came to a screeching halt. Now there is no telling when the league and the players will ...

NHL, union meet for small, informal lunch
NHL labor talks took a break Saturday — an old-fashioned lunch break. Instead of returning to the negotiating table for a fifth straight day, ...
NHL, union to meet Friday for 4th straight day
The best that can be said about the ongoing NHL labor negotiations is that they are still going, and will continue for at least a fourth straight day.
NHL, union holding labor talks a 3rd straight day
The NHL and the players' association resume negotiations Thursday afternoon, the third straight day the sides are meeting in an effort to end the ...
NHL labor talks to resume Thursday
Negotiations between the NHL and the locked-out players' association ended after nearly six hours Wednesday. Just as they did a night earlier, the ...
NHL, union back at bargaining table for new talks
Negotiations between the NHL and the locked-out players' association lasted deep into Tuesday night, and went well enough that the sides agreed to ...
NHL, union to return to bargaining table Tuesday
The NHL and the players' association stuck to their word and made quick plans to get back to the bargaining table. After all-day negotiations ...

NHL and union make progress, will meet again soon
A secret, long-awaited bargaining session has done some good in the NHL labor fight — so much so that the sides already have plans to get back to the ...

NHL cancels Winter Classic at Big House
The NHL has put one of its signature events on ice. The Winter Classic, scheduled between Detroit and Toronto for Jan. 1 at Michigan Stadium, became ...

NHL on ice: All games canceled through November
It will be December before the NHL returns to the ice, and that is a best-case scenario. With no deal in place, and no plans to resume negotiations ...
Admin. rejects new claim about Libya attack
Obama administration officials defended their response to the September attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, amid new claims that the ...

Bettman says full NHL season unrealistic
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman still hasn't heard what he wants from the players' association, so he won't return to the bargaining table and he won't ...

NHL's Islanders moving to Brooklyn in 2015
Mike Bossy's fondest memories of the New York Islanders will always have Nassau Coliseum as the cherished backdrop, no matter where the team calls ...
NHL rejects union bid to return to negotiations
Forget about a deal to save a full hockey season: the NHL and the players' association can't even agree to get together to talk. The union wants ...
NHL rejects players' attempt to restart talks
The little hope that existed for a full NHL season appears to be gone. Shortly after the players' reached out to the league on Tuesday night to ...
NHL, union still talking but not negotiating
While the NHL and the players' association are keeping the lines of communication open, they don't seem to be moving any closer to getting back to the ...
NHL, union speak but no new negotiations set up
NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly and players' association special counsel Steve Fehr spoke to each other on Saturday, but the sides still have no ...

On Ice: NHL wipes out 53 more games through Nov. 1
The NHL's next cuts will be the deepest and most costly. With only days remaining to make a deal with the players' association on a new collective ...

On thin ice: Optimism lost in NHL labor talks
The NHL and the players' association agree on one thing: Thursday was a bad day at the negotiating table. Any optimism that existed following the ...