With labor negotiations stalled, there does not appear to be any hope of preserving a full 82-game season by Thursday’s deadline. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said as much Wednesday. “Unfortunately, it looks like an 82-game season is not going to be a reality,” Bettman said at a news conference from Barclays Center in Brooklyn, where [...]

The New York Islanders are officially Brooklyn-bound. The Islanders announced Wednesday that they’ve agreed to move from Long Island to Brooklyn’s Barclays Center and share the $1 billion arena with the Nets. “You don’t have to worry about the future of this team,” NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said at a news conference Wednesday. “It’s remaining local.” The [...]

The NHL and NHL Players Association can’t agree to meet at this point. The NHLPA says it has invited the NHL back to the bargaining table as long as there are no strings attached. After the NHLPA’s executive board conference call Tuesday, the players’ union “informed the NHL we are willing to meet tomorrow or [...]

With just days remaining to strike a new Collective Bargaining Agreement and preserve an 82-game schedule, deputy commissioner Bill Daly indicated that he felt there was a deal to be made. Asked on Sunday whether there was a chance for the sides to get something in place by Thursday’s deadline, Daly responded by saying “that’s more [...]

While the NHL and the NHL Players Association are keeping the lines of communication open, they don’t seem to be moving any closer to getting back to the bargaining table. For the second straight day, representatives on both sides of the lockout had telephone conversations Sunday. None of those talks have yet led to concrete [...]

The NHL put a new Collective Bargaining Agreement offer on the bargaining table for the NHL Players Association on Tuesday morning, which includes a 50/50 split of hockey-related revenue across the board and contingent on an 82-game season beginning November 2. “We hope we’ve given our best shot,” NHL commissioner Gary Bettman told reporters on Tuesday afternoon. Bettman [...]

Labor talks between the NHL and the locked-out  NHL Players Association will resume Tuesday in Toronto, league deputy commissioner Bill Daly told ESPN.com on Monday. Both the NHL and the NHLPA also told ESPN.com that the four key figures in the negotiations league commissioner Gary Bettman, Daly and union bosses Donald Fehr and Steve Fehr plan to [...]

On what was slated to be opening day of the 2012-13 NHL regular season, the league and the union remained locked in a familiar stalemate with no end in sight. The two sides met for the second straight day of negotiations Thursday, the double-session dealt only with secondary issues such as free agency and drug [...]

After five hours of talks in two sessions Wednesday, NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly said the league has received indication that the NHL Players Association is putting together a proposal, and the NHL is urging the union to make it. Daly said a “variety of sources” both privately and publicly tipped off the league that [...]

Sorry for the lack of updates, I had to take a business trip to the west coast. Unfortunately the NHL is still in a lockout and we’ll continue to bring you the latest news. Below are some quick hits from around the league. Veteran goaltender Dominik Hasek appears to be done with ice hockey after giving up hope of [...]