Empty nets: NHL lockout will begin Thursday
NHL owners have confirmed the league will lock out its players Thursday, threatening the 2004-05 season.
View ArticleOn the Hrink: Locked out and loaded
With the NHL shutdown, Team Canada will have a full compliment of players for the World Junior Championship -- just like they did in 1995.
View ArticleLast chance? NHLPA invites NHL to secret meeting
In perhaps the final effort to save the season and beyond, the National Hockey League Players' Association confirmed Monday that it has invited NHL officials to have discussions on a small-group basis.
View ArticlePlayers pessimistic if new talks aren't productive
In a last-ditch effort to jump-start moribund labor negotiations, the NHLPA has invited league officials to meet Wednesday at a secret location without the two top power brokers in the dispute.
View ArticleResolution '95 didn't include caving
Trevor Linden's outreach last week was reminiscent of the 1994-95 lockout, with one big difference -- 10 years ago they got a deal done.
View ArticleNew rules put to the test in AHL
From wider blue lines to shootouts, the AHL has put new rule changes to the test.
View ArticleHard-shooting defenseman Al MacInnis retires
Al MacInnis, one of the National Hockey League's best defensemen over his 23-year career, has retired.
View ArticleWhy all the suspensions? Just don't tell me it's 'code'
This should be a time when the NHL is celebrating its finest time of the season. Instead, a string of incidents, and suspensions, have muddied the works.
View ArticleBy traveling to London, Ducks, Kings taking one for the team
Why would the NHL descend upon London to start its season? It's all part of a big-picture plan, a plan teams are begrudgingly carrying out.
View ArticleForbes: NHL's value highest in past 10 years
The 2007-08 season was the National Hockey League's most successful since Forbes began tracking team values 10 years ago.
View ArticleChicago Blackhawks get two draft picks from Toronto Maple Leafs
The Chicago Blackhawks on Sunday announced they have acquired two draft picks from the Toronto Maple Leafs.
View ArticleTheo Fleury, Sheldon Kennedy outraged by pardon for Graham James, coach who...
Former National Hockey League players Theo Fleury and Sheldon Kennedy are shocked and disappointed that the junior hockey coach whom they allege sexually abused them as teenagers was quietly granted a...
View ArticleLecavalier will be missed in Tampa area
It is first and foremost a business. Always has been, always will be. But know this: The business of the National Hockey League is, at its heart, a...
View ArticleFormer players sue NHL over concussions
Ten former National Hockey League players, including All-Star forward Gary Leeman, claimed in a class-action lawsuit that the league hasn't done enough to protect players from concussions.
View ArticleVancouver Canucks coach John Tortorella suspended, Calgary Flames coach Bob...
Vancouver Canucks coach John Tortorella was suspended for 15 days without pay for an altercation in the hallway outside the Calgary Flames' dressing room during the first intermission of Saturday's...
View ArticleNHL -- The latest on the league's mumps outbreak
The mumps virus was first reported in the NHL on Oct. 17 and doesn't seem to be letting up, ESPN.com's Katie Strang writes.
View ArticleComplete NHL All-Star Game rosters by position
From the official NHL release: 36 ALL-STARS, SIX ROOKIES ANNOUNCED FOR 2015 NHL ALL-STAR WEEKEND NEW YORK (Jan. 10, 2015) -- The National Hockey...
View ArticleOn the Hrink: Locked out and loaded
With the NHL shutdown, Team Canada will have a full compliment of players for the World Junior Championship -- just like they did in 1995.
View ArticleCalgary Flames' Dennis Wideman to have appeal heard later this week
The National Hockey League Players' Association will appeal to an arbitrator for suspended Calgary Flames defenseman Dennis Wideman on Thursday and Friday.
View ArticleNHL seeks to vacate decision on Dennis Wideman of Calgary Flames
The NHL is arguing that the arbitrator substituted "his own version of what occurred on the ice for that of the commissioner" during the Dennis Wideman appeal process.
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