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...Game on! NHL lockout ends with tentative deal between league, NHLPA
NEW YORK — After six long months of negotiations, it took one extremely long night to get the NHL out of the boardroom and back on the ice.
A tentative deal to end the 113-day NHL lockout was reached early Sunday morning following a marathon 16-hour negotiating session.
“We have reached an agreement on the framework of a new collective bargaining agreement, the details of which need to be put to paper,” NHL commissioner Gary Bettman told a news conference. “We’ve got to dot a lot of i’s and cross a lot of t’s. There’s still a lot of work to be done but the basic framework of the deal has been agreed upon.”
Before the new CBA officially comes into effect, it must be ratified by a majority of both the league’s 30 owners and the union’s membership of approximately 740 players. There is no word when those votes will take place.
“Hopefully we’re at a place where all those things...
Canucks players preparing backup plans if NHL season cancelled
VANCOUVER — Since Day One of the NHL lockout, the Sedin twins have maintained they would return home to play for Modo in the Swedish Elite League if, and only if, the season was cancelled.
Daniel Sedin appeared to be hedging on that Friday. The brothers have had an open invitation from Modo GM and former Vancouver Canucks teammate Markus Naslund to rejoin their hometown club.
“It's getting tougher and tougher to make the move back to Sweden, that's for sure,” said Daniel, 32 and a father of three. “You have to take kids out of school and look at everything. You have to look at insurance. There are a lot of questions we have to get answered first. We're going to talk to Markus in the next few days here and we'll see what happens. Hopefully it doesn't have to happen, but you have to be prepared.”
Chris Higgins is preparing, too. He said Friday he will aggressively pursue playing opportunities...
NHL lockout: Finally, some serious negotiations, but what took them so long?
On some level, this is all as predictable as a Russian election.
Both the NHL and the players association knew they were looking at a 48-game schedule. Both sides knew an agreement had to be reached by early January. That was the real pressure point and that gave both sides the freedom to indulge in the petty intrigues we’ve been forced to endure for six months.
And give both sides their due. They haven’t squandered that opportunity.
But now, the spit is getting real and, suddenly, proposals are flying back and forth between the two sides like a shuttlecock in a backyard badminton game. As of this writing, the NHL is studying the union’s latest proposal, which was delivered Wednesday afternoon. This is the fourth proposal to be considered since the two sides decided to get serious last Thursday. This is also what hockey fans have been waiting for, a concerted, sincere effort from both sides complete with compromise and real...
NHL delivers counter-proposal to union in push to save the season
NEW YORK — The NHL delivered a comprehensive counter-proposal to the NHL Players’ Associaton on Tuesday night as the sides pushed to reach an agreement that would save the season.
NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr said the union would review the document during the evening and expected to return to the bargaining table at some point on Wednesday.
Fehr declined to be specific about what was being negotiated.
“It’s better to be meeting than not but I’m not saying anything else more about it,” he said.
The talks are being held with an eye on preserving at least a 48-game schedule — the same number that was played following the 1994-95 lockout.
An agreement would need to be in place by Jan. 11 for that to happen.
“What we’ve said is we need to drop the puck by Jan. 19 if we’re going to play a 48-game season,” commissioner Gary Bettman said Monday.
“We don’t think it makes sense to play a season that is...
Blue-liner Jason Garrison rejoins locked-out Canuck teammates
Jason Garrison figures he couldn’t have picked a better time for his worst injury.
The National Hockey League defenceman, who joined the Vancouver Canucks in July on a six-year, $27.6-million free-agent contract, began skating with out-of-work teammates Tuesday at the University of B.C. after spending the first three months of the lockout rehabilitating a groin/abdominal injury.
Garrison revealed he has had similar injuries before, but not to the extent that he missed more than a few games.
Ironically, the player Garrison essentially replaces, departed free agent Sami Salo, had chronic groin problems and many other injuries during his time with the Canucks.
“There were things torn up there,” Garrison, 28, said after skating with a handful of teammates and players from the UBC Thunderbirds. “Previous to the summer, there was talk (about surgery) but this was something that doctors told me wouldn’t take too long to heal: ‘Just give it some time and it will go away’ kind of thing. But that...
Iain MacIntyre: Record book victimized by NHL’s lockout years
VANCOUVER - At the end of the last lockout, the National Hockey League marked the start of its bold new era with a redesigned logo.
The league’s acronym reversed direction, tilting upwards across a shield trimmed in silver to reflect a more positive energy and trajectory. Who knew Gary Bettman believed in feng shui?
Whenever this lockout ends, the logo will require a more radical renovation.
The league’s new symbol should be an asterisk. While Bettman may or may not torch another season, he has already ruined NHL history books with his third lockout in 18 years and second major work stoppage in eight years.
With nearly two years of hockey missing — 34 games per team flushed in 1994-95, 82 games a decade later and about 32 games so far this “season” and counting — statistics have been skewed downward for a generation of players. It’s not only money the players will never get back.
Teemu Selanne, 42, and Jaromir Jagr, 40,...
Problems on the back end, down to Edler’s back
The numbing labour standoff in the NHL shark jumped sometime this week when the sides began having meetings to see if they should have more meetings.
Give the NHL this: it does have an amazing ability to find a wide variety of ways to waste everyone’s time. Whether it’s calling in a mediator who no one was going to pay attention to, or proposing a sit-down between players and owners, without Gary Bettman and Donald Fehr in the house.
Sorry, Daniel Carcillo sharing scones with Craig Leipold isn’t going to get this deal done.
The only encouraging news is the calendar. It’s December and this season’s final lap for this clown rodeo show has finally begun.
If there are going to be games, expect them to start in early January. At least that’s what Cory Schneider was considering when he signed on in a Swiss league with a contract that runs to the end of December.
There will be some cards stacked up...
Vancouver Canuck Cory Schneider aims to lift his new Swiss team
VANCOUVER — If Cory Schneider was looking for a challenge after going seven months without a game, he seems to have found it with his new Swiss League team.
The Vancouver Canucks' goalie has signed a deal with HC Ambri-Piotta, which is not exactly a powerhouse. The team has won only seven of 25 games so far this season and is currently 11th in the 12-team league.
Ambri-Piotta, known locally as the "Bianco-Blu" (white and blues), has scored 61 goals this season and surrendered 92. In other words, the team's defence has been like, well, Swiss cheese.
Schneider will be asked to fill some of those holes. He left Wednesday for Switzerland, is scheduled to practise with his new team Thursday and could play as early as Saturday against sixth-place Kloten.
Schneider holds dual U.S.-Swiss citizenship so the team did not have to burn an import spot to sign him.
The Ambri-Piotta website said Schneider's deal with the team runs through Dec. 31 with...
Canuck Cory Schneider aims to lift his new Swiss team
VANCOUVER — If Cory Schneider was looking for a challenge after going seven months without a game, he seems to have found it with his new Swiss League team.
The Vancouver Canucks' goalie has signed a deal with HC Ambri-Piotta, which is not exactly a powerhouse. The team has won only seven of 25 games so far this season and is currently 11th in the 12-team league.
Ambri-Piotta, known locally as the "Bianco-Blu" (white and blues), has scored 61 goals this season and surrendered 92. In other words, the team's defence has been like, well, Swiss cheese.
Schneider will be asked to fill some of those holes. He left Wednesday for Switzerland, is scheduled to practise with his new team Thursday and could play as early as Saturday against sixth-place Kloten.
Schneider holds dual U.S.-Swiss citizenship so the team did not have to burn an import spot to sign him.
The Ambri-Piotta website said Schneider's deal with the team runs through Dec. 31 with...
Ten issues facing the post-lockout Canucks: The second line
If and when the NHL returns to action, the Vancouver Canucks are facing a few issues.
After all, they were unexpectedly bounced from the first round of the playoffs last spring, and they’ll return to the league with pretty much the same lineup that couldn’t get the job done.
Over the course of 10 days, Jason Botchford and Ben Kuzma are examining 10 issues that might concern the Canucks and their fans. Follow the series here, where we’ll add a new installment each day.
6. The second line
You could argue that the second line was the first problem for the Canucks last season. Of the eight goals scored against the Los Angeles Kings in the conference quarterfinal, none came from those normally associated with the second line. The line was in flux all season because of injuries to Mason Raymond and Ryan Kesler, but the question remains: When everyone’s healthy, do the Canucks have enough? Read more from Ben...
Ten issues facing the post-lockout Canucks: The two goalies
If and when the NHL returns to action, the Vancouver Canucks are facing a few issues.
After all, they were unexpectedly bounced from the first round of the playoffs last spring, and they’ll return to the league with pretty much the same lineup that couldn’t get the job done.
Over the course of 10 days, Jason Botchford and Ben Kuzma are examining 10 issues that might concern the Canucks and their fans. Follow the series here, where we’ll add a new installment each day.
7. The two goaltenders
Goaltending is always an issue in Vancouver, but never more than now. When hockey resumes after the lockout, the Canucks will still have two No. 1 goalies on their hands and will need to find something they can use in a trade for Roberto Luongo. Some might even suggest that carrying both goalies through a lockout-shortened season would work, but that would bring more risk than you might realize. Read more from...
Fourth straight day of NHL meetings underway as two sides look to end lockout
NEW YORK -- Any goodwill built during an extended run of collective bargaining talks between the NHL and NHL Players' Association quickly evaporated Friday.
The sides emerged red-faced and frustrated after hitting a road block during their fourth consecutive day together at the bargaining table. The league and union looked to be moving slowly towards a deal after trading proposals earlier in the week, but ended up exchanging some heated words after discovering they were still about US$380 million apart on economics.
"We looked at some of the numbers on the various proposals and we thought we were much closer together on the structure of a deal than the suggestions were," said NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr. "They came back to us and said, 'No, we're very, very far apart on the structure of a deal."'
There were no further bargaining sessions scheduled, but Fehr remained hopeful they would pick up talks again Saturday.
The fundamental issue they are trying to bridge...