May 19, 2013

NHL Lockout: Federal mediator works marathon for NHL, union

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Story Highlights Scot L. Beckenbaugh conducts shuttle diplomacy for 12 hours, will resume Saturday Second-year salary cap could present problems for some teams Where the sides stand on other issues NEW YORK (AP) — A federal mediator held over 12 hours of separate talks with the NHL and the players’ association Friday before stopping for [...]

NHL Lockout: NHLPA still quiet on disclaimer; talks to continue

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NHL commissioner Gary Bettman, left, and NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr are expected to get together again on Thursday with a mediator to continue labour talks. (Getty Images) (PhatzNewsRoom / CBC Sports) — The NHL’s labor talks remained on track after a marathon day of negotiating ended with the NHL Players’ Association electing to let [...]

NHL Lockout: NHL labor talks expected to resume Monday

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NEW YORK (AP) – It took nearly three weeks and a new contract offer to get the fighting sides in hockey’s latest labor dispute back to the bargaining table. While nothing concrete was announced Sunday, the players’ association indicated that the plan was for talks with the NHL to restart Monday in the final hours [...]

NHL Lockout: Fehr says players waiting for NHL to resume talks

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TORONTO (AP) — Donald Fehr and the players’ association are ready to get back to the bargaining table at any moment. They are now just waiting for the NHL to feel the same way. “(We aren’t talking) because the owners have not indicated a desire to resume,” the NHLPA’s executive director said Wednesday night before [...]

NHL Lockout: NHL, union may resume talks this week

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NEW YORK (AP) The NHL and the locked-out players’ association are talking again, and a return to the bargaining table could happen soon. After a few days to cool off following an epic collapse in negotiations, the league and the union have been in touch with each other in an attempt to restart conversations that [...]

NHL Lockout: Even in NHL blowup, path to deal is visible

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(Photo: Mary Altaffer, AP) Story Highlights Both sides appear to have placed all of their cards on the table (PhatzRadio / USA Today) — Negotiating is like playing poker in that reading an opponent’s tendencies and strategy can be the pathway to success. Your next play always depends upon your analysis of what the person [...]

NHL Lockout: NHL, union wrap bargaining with mediators, will resume Thursday

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(PhatzRadio / AP) — Whether federal mediators will provide enough help to end the NHL lockout in time to save the hockey season is still unknown. At least they had a good first day. Negotiators from the NHL and the players’ association returned to the bargaining table Wednesday for the first time in a week [...]

NHL Lockout: NHL labor talks set to resume Monday

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NEW YORK (AP) — So much for a two-week break. Just over a week since the last set of failed negotiations, the NHL and the locked-out players’ association will return to the bargaining table Monday. Conversations that restarted Friday between NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly and NHLPA special counsel Steve Fehr produced enough positive movement [...]

NLH Lockout: Hope fading for deal to save NHL season

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TORONTO (AP) — Negotiations had already hit a wall in the ongoing hockey labor fight, and now the NHL has suggested the sides take an official two-week break before getting back to the bargaining table. NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman floated the idea of a break to players’ association executive director Donald Fehr. The union hasn’t [...]

NHL Lockout: NHL labor sides meet for lunch after talks hit snag

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NEW YORK (AP) — The NHL and the players’ association weren’t quite ready to return to the bargaining table Saturday. But they put aside their differences long enough to at least have lunch together. After negotiations hit a rough spot Friday on the fourth straight day of talks during the lockout, the sides stayed apart [...]