NHL Union Denies E-mail Spying
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The union's chief Ted Saskin denies monitoring player's e-mails, pointing fingers at his predecessor Bob Goodenow, who also denied the spying allegations.  By the Associated Press.
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Based on an eight-page memorandum the NHL has sent to all teams, mysteriously obtained by TSN, the NHL has rejected the NHLPA offer and is poised to issue its own counter-offer at a 1 pm meeting with the NHLPA on Tuesday.
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A replica of the Stanley Cup sat on a table behind copies of a letter the Tampa Bay Lightning sent to season ticket holders after the NHL season was canceled. On Wednesday, it became official that the league champions will not get an opportunity to defend their title this spring, and team president Ron Campbell wanted fans of the once-struggling franchise to know the club shares their disappointment.
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The NHL, which is in the midst of a labor lockout, disputed a Forbes magazine study that found the league lost less than half as much money as it claimed last season.
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Of all the great things about being a hockey fan, reading stories about NHL management-labor strife is not one of them. But, rest assured, there is worse. To wit: reporting and writing stories about NHL management-labor strife (you can send notes of sympathy to the e-mail posted at the bottom of this report).
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The NHL owners have shut down the league by opting to lock out its players. This stoppage is not the result of the players striking.
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The owner of the National Hockey League's Nashville Predators dismissed a newspaper report on Thursday that said a proposed deal with Canadian businessman Jim Balsillie had fallen through.
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The NHL reportedly will reject the latest proposal from the players' union that was meant to end the lockout and salvage the season.
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Representatives for team owners and  locked-out players met under a cloak of secrecy Wednesday, with  no indication if the two sides had come closer to resolving the  labor dispute threatening to wipe out the entire ice hockey  season.
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The NBA informed the players&#39; union Sunday it will not seek a temporary restraining order in federal court, clearing the way for a grievance hearing over suspensions for the Pacers-Pistons brawl.
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update A district judge in New York has refused to accept a guilty plea from a former America Online employee charged with stealing 92 million e-mail addresses from the online giant, citing vagueness in the prosecutors&#39; argument that the theft violated
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The chess game between the NHL and the NHLPA continued Tuesday, with the league rejecting the players&#39; offer from last Thursday and tabling a counteroffer, which was in turn rejected by the NHLPA.
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The NHL and the league's Players Association moved no closer to a collective bargaining agreement during a five-hour meeting yesterday near Newark Airport in New Jersey. &quot;Today can be more fairly characterized as a side step in the process,&quot; NHLPA senior director Ted Saskin said. &quot;I would not characterize it as having made any progress in any direction.&quot; The talks ...
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A top-level hockey agent who has been around the game since the days of the World Hockey Association said over the weekend he was sure the NHL would reject the players&#39; offer.
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Hopes of saving the National Hockey League season all but vanished Tuesday when players and team owners rejected proposals to end the labor dispute.
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According to a report in the Ottawa Sun, an NHL agent has lost his certification for leaking information about a players&#39; association website to a reporter from a Minnesota newspaper.
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The National Hockey League rejected an offer from the players in the latest round of labor negotiations Thursday, leaving little hope of avoiding a lockout start to the season next month.