Thrashers owner fined for lockout comment: report
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - The NHL has slapped Atlanta Thrashers owner Steve Belkin with a $250,000 US fine for comments he made about replacement players, according to the Associated Press.
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Sabres owner Tom Golisano urged the NHL to review its policy on violent hits to the head after the league chose not to punish Ottawa's Chris Neil for blindsiding and knocking out Buffalo co-captain Chris Drury.
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NEW ORLEANS (Sports Network) - New Orleans' Steve Gleason  was fined $5,000 by the NFL on Wednesday for punching the  Panthers' Kemp Rasmussen during last Sunday's 32-21 loss to  Carolina.
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UNIONDALE, N.Y. -- New York Islanders forward Chris Simon was banned for 30 games Wednesday, drawing the longest suspension in NHL history again.
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The Atlanta Thrashers had to wait to find out how costly their slump-ending victory over Pittsburgh would prove to be.
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Philadelphia defenseman Randy Jones was suspended two games by the NHL Monday for his violent hit on Boston's Patrice Bergeron, the third Flyer suspended this season.
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Dany Heatley signed with a Russian hockey team Thursday, less than a week after pleading guilty to charges in the 2003 death of Atlanta Thrashers teammate Dan Snyder and being sentenced to three years' probation.
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Sabres coach Lindy Ruff was fined $10,000 by the NHL for his role in the brawl between Buffalo and the Ottawa Senators. The teams fought Thursday night, and the fine was announced hours before the teams were to play a rematch in Ottawa on Sunday night. NHL disciplinarian Colin Campbell was expected to attend.
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NEW YORK The NHL is fining one of the owners of the Atlanta Thrashers 250-thousand dollars for saying the league would use replacement players next year if a new collective bargaining agreement isn&#39;t reached.
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Sammy Sosa was fined $87,400 -- one day&#39;s salary -- for arriving late to the Cubs&#39; regular-season finale at Wrigley Field and leaving the game early.
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The day before the regular season was supposed to open, the National Hockey League rebuked a team official yesterday for his comments about the league&#39;s strategy in its labor lockout, its second in a decade.
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It has long been the National Hockey League Players&#39; Association position that it&#39;s the league&#39;s owners that are driving the lockout bus, that commissioner Gary Bettman has staked his reputation
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Forward Chris Simon, who took a leave of absence from the Islanders, received the longest suspension in N.H.L. history for stepping on Penguins Jarkko Ruutu with his skate.
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Washington forward Donald Brashear is suspended for three games by the NHL on Thursday, stemming from a fight between the Capitals and Atlanta Thrashers.
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NHL Chris Simon took a paid leave from the New York Islanders, agreeing with the team that he needed time away from hockey following his latest penalty for attempting to injure an opponent. Simon missed the first five games of this season while completing a 25-game ban - his sixth suspension - meted out in March. He could be in ...
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Commissioner Gary Bettman summed up the NHL&#39;s decision to lock out its players in five words Wednesday. &quot;We are out of gas,&quot; Bettman said in New York after the league&#39;s Board of Governors offered unanimous
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Frantic finishes are quite the norm for the first-place Atlanta Thrashers. The Thrashers blew a late lead for the second time in three games, but Bobby Holik and his old-school wooden sticks bailed Atlanta out this time in a 5-4 overtime victory against the New York Rangers on Tuesday night.