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NHL Lockout: Donald Fehr has avoided the mistakes of former NHLPA head Bob...
When I write that NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr has largely avoided the missteps of former players’ association boss Bob Goodenow, the reaction for many will undoubtedly be, ‘yes, but he’s made...
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NHL Lockout: New York Rangers’ Henrik Lundqvist calls for more involvement...
With the failure of mediation to break the impasse in negotiations to end the 2012 NHL Lockout, attention now has turned to an NHL proposal that players and owners meet without input from the league or...
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NHL Lockout: Will 2012 be Gary Bettman’s last stand as commissioner?
For at least one of the chief combatants in the current NHL lockout, the outcome of the dispute seems likely to be the deciding factor in his continued employment. Gary Bettman has been the...
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NHL Lockout: What is NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr’s ultimate goal?
Donald Fehr is rapidly approaching the third anniversary of his involvement in the NHL Players’ Association, and his second year as its executive director. Despite the fact that he has been around for...
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NHL lockout: Expect more of the same from today’s direct meeting between...
On the ownership side, there will be new faces, and many of them will be ones that the NHLPA has wanted to see at the negotiating table. On the players’ side, all of the faces are still uncertain, but...
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NHL Lockout: It’s not over yet, and there are reasons to be worried about...
Despite the prevailing “cautious optimism” coming out of recent talks between individual players and owners, many reasons remain to be concerned about the state of negotiations between the league and...
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NHL Lockout: When “take it or leave it” is nothing of the sort
Following the NHL lockout requires, among other things, a dark sense of humour. Both sides are prone to being economical with the truth, whether it’s Don Fehr holding a news conference where he...
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NHL Lockout: Does NHLPA vote mean negotiations are coming to an end, one way...
The NHLPA inched one step closer to moving its labour dispute with the NHL from the negotiating table to the courts on Thursday night. As per TSN’s Aaron Ward, the executive board has decided to hold a...
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NHL Lockout: Battle moves to the courts as league files class action...
After months of speculation that the NHLPA would take it’s labour dispute with the NHL to the courts, the league beat them to the punch, filing a class action complaint with a court in New York seeking...
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NHL Lockout: NHL’s class action complaint almost identical to NBA’s, but the...
It has been said that the current NHL lockout not only includes many of the same actors as last year’s NBA labour dispute, but that it is in fact running off a nearly identical script as well. That...
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Given crazy money thrown around in 2014 NHL free agency, is another lockout...
Every summer, a select group of players qualify for unrestricted free agency, as set out in the NHL CBA. And every summer, general managers trip over themselves to throw long-term contracts at serious...
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