The NHL officially announced the 2014 Winter Classic between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings to be played on New Year’s Day but it’s sounding like it won’t be the lone outdoor game next season. NHL COO John Collins said the league is in high level discussions with the NHL’s Board of Governors, interested teams and the [...]

After years of resisting the idea of mandating visors in the NHL, the NHLPA plans on polling players this summer to see if they’re interested in grandfathering mandatory visors into the league. Mathieu Schneider, the NHLPA’s special assistant to the executive director, described himself as a visor advocate after playing his entire NHL career without [...]

With the issue of supplementary discipline a large part of the Wednesday’s agenda, talks grew increasingly contentious between the NHL and NHL Players Association during Day 2 of Collective Bargaining Agreement negotiations, as reported by Katie Strang of ESPN NY. Mathieu Schneider, special assistant to NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr, wouldn’t go so far as to [...]

The NHL and NHL Players Association resumed Collective Bargaining Agreement talks Tuesday, but the sides discussed secondary items and not the economic issues. Katie Strang of ESPN NY reports that the sides talked “player health and safety as well as legal issues” Tuesday and found “common ground,” but they will broach the economic side Thursday and [...]

Executives and legal counsel from the National Hockey League met with executives, legal counsel and a collection of 11 players from the National Hockey League Players Association for roughly three hours Tuesday at the PA’s office in ongoing Collective Bargaining Agreement negotiations. This was the fourth meeting since bargaining commenced June 29 in New York. [...]