Will The NHL Use A Lottery To Determine The 2013 NHL Entry Draft? Mark Ritter | September 26, 2012 With the NHL Collective Bargaining Agreement set to expire at it’s conclusion, the 2003-04 NHL season was played under a cloud of uncertainty. Throughout the season, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman…
History Will Be Made: Let the Best Women Play for the Stanley Cup Stephen Stoneman | September 25, 2012 The preset deadline of September 15th has come and gone and little to no ‘public’ progress has been made between the NHL Board of Governors and the NHL Players Association. …
Ryan Miller Speaks Out Against NHL Owners Ian C McLaren | September 21, 2012 With much of the hockey-related attention being focused on players taking off to ply their trade in various European leagues, you’d be hard pressed to find many people who are…
NHL Lockout: League Prevents Flyers Management from Attending Charity Event Andrew Hirsh | September 20, 2012 NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and his fellow league executives want you to believe that they care about the fans. Their words, however, do not coincide with their actions.
Lockout Opportunity: Back to the Future Jason Sulham | September 18, 2012 The NHL has entered its third lockout in as many tries under Mr. Bettman’s commissionership. The fissure, and therefore the dominating storyline, centers on distribution of hockey related revenue, contract…
Apathy, Annoyance, Anger, and the NHL Lockout Geoff Rosenthal | September 16, 2012 This post may come off as a rant. But what else do hockey fans have left to do? I haven’t written about hockey for most of the summer. Besides a…
NHL Knows Fans Are Locked In Wayne Whittaker | September 13, 2012 By Wayne Whittaker, Boston Bruins Correspondent We’re trapped. As fans of professional hockey in North America, we are powerless onlookers in a battle of greed vs. slightly more sensible greed.…
The Show Must Go On for the New York Rangers Heidi Werner | September 12, 2012 Players, owners and all the supporting cast of the NHL’s Collective Bargaining Agreement have descended upon New York City to save the 2012-13 season. Welcome to town, boys. News hit…
NHLPA Is Willing To Play, But Will Bettman And The Owners Let Them? Derek Neumeier | September 10, 2012 On early Sunday evening, NHL agent Allan Walsh tweeted the following: “The NHLPA has informed the NHL that players are willing to play and continue to negotiate if an agreement…
Quebec City Ready to Start Digging for New Arena Fred Poulin | September 4, 2012 The first official shoveling of dirt for the construction of the new arena in Quebec City occurred Monday afternoon near the Old Colisee Pepsi, where 20,000 people gathered to participate…
NHL Feeling Minimal Pressure As Lockout Looms Ian C McLaren | September 4, 2012 As the September 15th deadline approaches and an(other) NHL lockout looms, the league and its owners appears to be maintaining a delicate balance wherein the potential benefits of going into…
NHL Players Simply Cannot Cave This Time Justin Johnson | September 1, 2012 Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. That’s probably the saying going through the head of every member of the NHL Players Association at this…