NHL Lockout: Is Revenue Sharing The Answer? Mark Ritter | September 25, 2012 With a new CBA looking more and more like a pipe dream, one wonders if the owners (who want the players to take less in order off-set costs) or the…
Changing the Lockout’s Effect on the Future of NHL Fans Matthew Dimmick | September 21, 2012 The first piece of mail I ever received at my new home with my newlywed wife was a Flyers-themed plea for grandchildren. It was a small brown box that wasn’t…
The NHLPA is Just as Guilty as the NHL Ton DeFrancesco | September 20, 2012 It’s pretty clear the NHLPA has been on a mission to defend their position by using Twitter to promote their fight against the NHL owners and have won over the…
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…
Book Review: Hamilton’s Hockey Tigers Rebecca Dobrinski | September 9, 2012 Hamilton’s Hockey Tigers. By Sam Wesley with David Wesley. (2005, Toronto: James Lorimer & Company, Ltd. Softcover. Pp. 96. $24.95. ISBN 978-1-55028-887-2.) Published during the last NHL lockout, who knew…
Buying time: Why the lockout could help the Sabres The Hockey Writers | September 5, 2012 After falling short last season, many Buffalo Sabres fans are left scratching their head, wondering where it all went wrong. It leaves us with a lot of questions, regarding the…
NHL and NHLPA Are Still Far Apart on a New CBA Michael Rappaport | August 16, 2012 With a month remaining before training camps around the NHL open, fans of every team should be excited about the start of a new season. Instead, they are watching the…
NHLPA Submits Its First Proposal Bruce Hollingdrake | August 15, 2012 The National Hockey League Players’ Association submitted its first proposal on economic issues during a Collective Bargaining Agreement negotiating session Tuesday. The proposal, which included the core economic elements…
Dispatches From Planet Hockey: Show Me The Money Edition Jas Faulkner | August 13, 2012 The Seventh Man has been showing the NHL the money for quite some time and did so in a big way this year. Subjects of the Los Angeles Kings snapped up all but a little less than hundred premium season ticket packages on their July 30th Select-A-Seat event. On August ninth, the Sabres Organisation announced that their renewal rate for season tickets was at 99%.
The Alan Eagleson Auction: 10 Most Offensive Items Ross Bonander | August 11, 2012 The Alan Eagleson story is well-known. He began representing NHL players in contract negotiations in the 1960s, and wasn’t making much of an impact until Bobby Orr came along. Eagleson…