Sam Carchidi, Inquirer Staff Writer
A representative from the NHL and the players’ union met on Thursday but failed to make any progress during the 89th day of the lockout.
No future talks have been scheduled.
Steve Fehr, special counsel for the NHL Players’ Association, and NHL attorney Bob Batterman met with a federal mediator in Iselin, N.J., but the talks were fruitless.
Sam Carchidi, Inquirer Staff Writer
Last week, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman angrily took all of the league’s offers off the bargaining table.
On Wednesday, he put them back on it, according to Sportsnet of Canada.
Still, the NHL and the players’ union could not reach an agreement and resolve their labor dispute.
Sam Carchidi, Inquirer Staff Writer
Face it. Most of us only do things when we are faced with a deadline.
For the NHL and the NHL Players’ Association _ which will resume talks Wednesday in New York City _ that deadline is almost upon us.
From here, the sides have just two weeks to get a deal done.
Sam Carchidi, Inquirer Staff Writer
The NHL canceled games through Dec. 30 on Monday, meaning nearly 43 percent of the season has been wiped out by the labor war with the players.
The NHL and the players’ union are expected to meet later this week, trying to end a labor dispute that started in mid-September.
The dispute is conjuring memories of the 1994-95 season, which didn’t have a collective bargaining agreement in place until Jan. 11. A 48-game regular season started Jan. 20 and ended May 3.
Sam Carchidi, Inquirer Staff Writer
Flyers goalie Ilya Bryzgalov was removed from Russia’s roster after undergoing a medical exam, according to the Russian Hockey Federation’s website.
The national team plays in the Channel One Cup tournament this week.
Vladimir Myshkin, the Russian national team coach, told Sovsport that Bryzgalov failed the medical exam because of a high fever.
Sam Carchidi, Inquirer Staff Writer
The NHL released statements from four owners after negotiations with the players' union broke down on Thursday. The owners _ Pittsburgh's Ron Burkle, Winnipeg's Mark
Chipman, Toronto's Larry Tanenbaum and Tampa Bay's Jeff Vinik _ took part in the meetings Tuesday and Wednesday.
Statement from Ron Burkle, Penguins:
Sam Carchidi, Inquirer Staff Writer
(Updated)
About a half hour after Donald Fehr said the labor war between the NHL and the union was almost over, it seemed to get bloodier Thursday night.
While Fehr, executive director of the NHL Players’ Association, was painting a rosy picture during a news conference in New York and saying the sides had “a complete agreement on dollars,” the NHLPA was receiving a voicemail from the league, telling it that the union’s proposal was rejected.
Sam Carchidi, Inquirer Staff Writer
(UPDATED)
NEW YORK _ The momentum from Tuesday’s productive meetings between NHL owners and players stalled a bit on Wednesday as both sides got into a sometimes-heated, grind-it-out bargaining session that totaled almost nine hours.
Give the sides credit for their persistance and sense of urgency. Finally. They worked until 1 a.m., trying to hammer out a settlement.
Sam Carchidi, Inquirer Staff Writer
After a marathon day of negotiating, a representative from the NHL and the NHL Players' Association stood side by side and addressed the media.
It was the first time that has happened in this labor war, an indication that progress was made Tuesday in New York.
Steve Fehr, special counsel for the NHLPA, said it may have been the best negotiating day of the 80-day lockout.
Sam Carchidi, Inquirer Staff Writer
(UPDATED ON TUES.)
The NHL Players’ Association has accepted the league’s offer to have some of its players meet with owners Tuesday in New York.
Originally, it was supposed to be a meeting of players and owners only, with no leaders from each side. But the meeting will now also include Bill Daly, the NHL’s deputy commissioner, and Steve Fehr, special counsel for the NHLPA, and perhaps some other lawyers.
