Coyotes Chairman Disputes Amount of Debt
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The Phoenix Coyotes have not exhausted an NHL-approved credit line and are not on shaky financial footing, team chairman Steve Ellman said Thursday.
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Bob Goodenow, the executive director of the N.H.L. Players' Association, stresses that the labor conflict is not a personality clash with Commissioner Gary Bettman.
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The Original Stars Hockey League is denying it has suspended play, saying a statement released Wednesday with league letter-head was not legitimate.
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TORONTO (CP) - The NHL Players&#39; Association believes its new proposal has the goods to salvage the NHL season. But the offer won&#39;t connect player costs to league revenues - a salary cap - when the NHL&#39;s leadership sees it for the first time Thursday.
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Bruins captain Joe Thornton was less than thrilled when he read comments by team owner Jeremy Jacobs in this space last Sunday in which Jacobs said he thought one of the reasons for the sport's malaise is that the top players don't give 100 percent every game.
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Chris Drury said he isn't angry about Ottawa forward Chris Neil's blindside hit that sent the Sabres co-captain flying and sparked a brawl last week. He's too busy trying to get back.
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The Phoenix Coyotes introduced Don Maloney as their new general manager Tuesday.
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Manchester United chief executive David Gill has strongly defended payment of Â£5.5million to agents over the past 12 months. The extraordinary figure, which does not include a payment
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Toronto, ON (Sports Network) - NHL commissioner Gary Bettman acknowledged Thursday that one segment of the latest proposal from the players&#39; union was significant, but stressed that much more lies ahead in solving the league&#39;s fiscal problems.
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The National Hockey League&#39;s top negotiator, Bill Daly, says that by not talking to the National Hockey League Players&#39; Association, the league is actually moving the process forward.
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NEW YORK - In what could be a last-second breakthrough, both sides of the NHL lockout have given significant ground: The players' association will accept a salary cap, and the league has backed off its demand for a link between revenues and player costs.
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TORONTO - The NHL Players&#39; Association tried yesterday to shake off dissenting remarks cast by several rank-and-file members in recent weeks as union head Bob Goodenow assured observers there are &quot;absolutely no cracks or divisiveness&quot; among locked out NHL
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Alan Eagleson&#39;s opinion doesn&#39;t carry the weight it once did in hockey&#39;s union circles, but the man who founded the NHL Players&#39; Association believes a deal to end the league&#39;s labour dispute could be reached by December.
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Thereâs no crying in baseball - or hockey for that matter â-ut it appears there can be rollbacks in CBA negotiating. Surely the most shocking element of the NHLPAâs proposal to the NHL owners on Thursday
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The National Hockey League brain trust has long maintained that in order to forge a new collective bargaining agreement with the NHL Players Association, it would need cost certainty -- which means teams' spending for players' salaries must be tied to revenues. In a nutshell, the hard line has been no cap, no hockey season in 2004-05.
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TORONTO -- Can the season be saved? That&#39;s the $2-billion question after NHL Players&#39; Association executive director Bob Goodenow invited commissioner Gary Bettman to a two-day bargaining session here next
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TORONTO -- The NHL won&#39;t take a second look at the NHL Players&#39; Association&#39;s offer to save the season. In an eight-page memo obtained by TSN yesterday, NHL VP Bill Daly outlined why the league is going to