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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.—Far east on Bell Road, barely a slap shot from the cooling shadows of the McDowell Mountains, hockey’s most compelling vortex gathers at center ice.
The suits might think they have all the power as they huddled this week around grand oak tables in some office in Woodbridge, N.J. It is there that members of the controlling class ordered in from five-star restaurants as they searched for ways to avoid self-impalement on a wood stick that hasn’t been shaved.
With each passing day, these would-be power brokers inch closer to committing a gory spectacle. The NHL’s latest stab at bleeding out came Thursday, after federal mediators (hardly shockingly) failed to produce a labor agreement. There appears to be one...
Good luck to you, Scot L. Beckenbaugh and John Sweeney. You’re going to need it. Those are two of the men who got the call on Monday from the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service to try to help bring an end to the NHL... more »
It was just another day in the world of labour unrest in the NHL. And it sounds like the next seven days won’t be any easier. Mediation didn't work; was never going to work; will never work in the future. Not when either... more »
Well, let’s be real, few of us thought mediation was going to work anyway. The real question now is where the NHL and NHL Players’ Association go from here after mediation sessions in Woodbridge, N.J., were unable to... more »
In his 32 years as general counsel, then head of the baseball union, I didn’t really interview Don Fehr 1,000 times. But it sure felt like it. My head still hurts. Now, hockey has the migraine. Two years ago, Fehr became the ... more »
BOSTON—North Station should have been a sea of black and gold on Friday, with fans getting ready for a day-after-Thanksgiving matinee between the Boston Bruins and New York Rangers. As those fans arrived at the transportation... more »
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