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The explosion took several strange and electric minutes, almost in slow motion. After two days of bargaining and several offers and counter-offers, National Hockey League Players’ Association executive director Don Fehr addressed the media and expressed significant optimism, all but saying that the major components of a new collective bargaining agreement with the league had been agreed to, and that while it was not done, they were in terrific shape. Dollars, pension, the big issues. If you were listening, you had to think a season was imminent.
But as Fehr spoke, NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly called his counterpart Steve Fehr’s cell phone and, finding nobody to answer, left a voice mail informing the players that their offer was not...
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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 »
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... 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 »
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 »
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