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Gary Bettman apologies to the players and the fans.

Well, as we all know the National Hockey League and the NHL players’ union have finally buried the hatchet and agreed on a ten year collective bargaining agreement. Within minutes of the NHL and…Read More

NHL LOCKOUT: Day 102- Bettman feels bad about the lockout.

  Well, we are three plus months into this disaster and we have no positive sign that things are going to get better any time soon. My hopes for a Christmas miracle appear to have been dashed as…Read More

LOCKOUT: Day 70 – Is all hope lost?

Well, another block of games are lost. While we are at it, let us toss away the All-Star weekend just to make sure we can really turn hockey fans into basketball and football fans. Well done Bettman!…Read More

LOCKOUT: Day 62- Bettman asks to take a break.

First the lockout, then Disney buys the rights to destroy Star Wars, and now NHL commissioner Gary Bettman has requested a two-week break from negotiations with the NHLPA on a new collective bargaining…Read More

LOCKOUT:Day Thirty-Three: Sometimes you just got to salute the bad guy.

Wow. Did we just all see the possibility of a restored season just fall apart? Does anyone else feel like we just witnessed the NHL version of a “Buckner”? The NHL put forth its proposal that…Read More

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NHL owners offer new proposal.

Well, it looks like the latest round of “I’m OK, you’re OK, but there is still going…Read More

Bettman learns the true spirit of hockey: Ghosts of lockouts past

Feb 20, 2011; Calgary, AB, Canada; NHL commissioner Gary Bettman before the Montreal Canadiens game…Read More

CBA (Careless Bettman Again)…continues.

  Here we have come to act four of the ” All’s Quiet on the Lockout Front” saga.…Read More

Fehr & NHLPA offer counter-proposal. Hope on the horizon.

Trade alert is not far off the mark. Despair over the impending NHL lockout may actually be traded…Read More

Bettman (Briskly Exit The Talks, MAN)

  NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman is doing his utmost to score his own form of hat trick.  A hat…Read More

Bettman’s take on the negotiations

OK, I admit it. I debated in high school and college. I got a scholarship for it. I really do enjoy…Read More

NHL/NHLPA discussion ongoing.

At the beginning of the year. NHLPA director Fehr went on Sirius radio to offer the hockey fans a little…Read More

NHL Ready To Realign; Here’s My Plan

With Atlanta moving to Winnipeg, the National Hockey League will definitely need to realign. Someone…Read More