Gary Bettman

What a game! It went into overtime Wednesday night tied at 1-1 with Ilya Bryzgalov in net for Moscow and visiting St. Petersburg goalie Sergei Bobrovsky performing just as well at the other end of the rink. Finally, Bobrovsky let the second puck of...

As expected, the NHL on Friday canceled another block of games as well as the league's All-Star game, which had been scheduled for Jan. 27 in Columbus, Ohio. Regular-season games were canceled through Dec. 14, bringing the number of games wiped out...

NEW YORK—NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and NHL Players’ Assn. Executive Director Donald Fehr were poised to rejoin labor negotiations Thursday after moving aside to let their respective top lieutenants preside over the talks for two days....

This, quite clearly, was a day (and night) to remember for those closely following NHL labor negotiations. Or forget. Thursday surpassed often perplexing talks with a surreal turn of events in New York. It started with an optimistic read on the...

NEW YORK -- Instead of closing in on a deal, the NHL and the players’ association are further apart than ever before.   Union executive director Donald Fehr began the first of his two news conferences Thursday night by proclaiming he believed...

NEW YORK -- It isn’t known what progress -- if any -- has been made in the second day of marathon talks in the NHL labor dispute, but owners and players surely sense that time is working against them.   Negotiations resumed Wednesday and stretched...

NEW YORK -- NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman made a brief statement after the league's Board of Governors met Wednesday, but he gave no indication if Tuesday's labor talks between players and owners -- and another session on Wednesday -- had made it more...

NEW YORK -- The delegations of NHL owners and players who appeared to make some progress toward a new labor agreement during a direct meeting on Tuesday held separate discussions Wednesday morning before owners left to attend a long-scheduled meeting of...

NEW YORK — NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly said Friday that he is out of ideas how to get negotiations back on track to save the hockey season.   Talks fell apart Thursday night amid back-and-forth accusations, and the fallout was still being...

Members of the NHL Players’ Assn. have voted to authorize their executive board to dissolve the union, which would pave the way for players to file antitrust lawsuits against the NHL. Several people who are knowledgeable about the decision but are...

The NHL Players' Assn. has accepted the league's invitation to hold a meeting between players and owners, but as with most aspects of their labor dispute, this isn't quite what it seems. The session, scheduled to take place Tuesday in New York, won't be...

NHL commissioner Gary Bettman locked out the players on Sept. 15. Since then, he has decided to hold his breath until he turns blue. No NHL hockey. No hope, either. This made hockey fans sad, even those in Columbus. Then Stevie Sunshine had an idea: If we...