Gary Bettman

"When Black Friday comes I'll collect everything I'm owed And before my friends find out I'll be on the road" —Steely Dan, "Black Friday" Hey, you! Yeah, you, the one with an armful of shiny new stuff and a rapidly shrinking credit line. I...

The NBA season was slipping away as Thanksgiving 2011 approached. The league and the National Basketball Players Assn. were so far apart in labor negotiations that players took the drastic step of dissolving their union by filing a disclaimer of...

Look, I’m as bummed by the NHL lockout as you are. You hockey fans, anyway. I’m sure we’re all getting tired of watching online highlights of Traktor Chelyabinsk scoring on Bars Astana in the Kontinental Hockey League, and while the...

NEW YORK -- This time, NHL owners and players are staying apart for just one day.   Negotiations aimed at ended the league’s lockout will resume this morning at the NHL office, the players’ association said in a statement Tuesday. Before...

Drop egos and drop puck Harvey Fialkov Sun Sentinel Absolutely. It's no secret that NHL Players' Association chief Donald Fehr plays hardball. Ask baseball fans about the cancellation of the 1994 World Series. This is the third work stoppage under...

As expected the NHL has cancelled games through Nov. 1. That doesn't necessarily rule out the season beginning on Nov. 2 as Commissioner Gary Bettman and the owners have outlined in their latest proposal. By now you now the players aren't buying into this...

The owners took a huge step in ending the lockout by offering 50-50 split of hockey related revenue. NHLPA's Donald Fehr says it's promising but need few days to go over the offer. NHL Commish Gary Bettman wants to start a full season on Nov. 2....

The NHL put the "no" in November and continued its determined march toward irrelevance by canceling games through Nov. 30, an announcement that was expected following the silent expiration of its Thursday deadline for a labor agreement with the players'...

NEW YORK— The NHL’s deadline for playing a full, 82-game season arrived Thursday with no new discussions between the league and its locked-out players.   Without a new collective bargaining agreement that would end the league’s...

Count Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews among those players not all that impressed by the NHL's latest proposal to the union on a new collective bargaining agreement. "It's something, but it's not anything to get overly excited about," Toews said...

The NHL on Tuesday made a new proposal to the players’ association that should provide a basis for accelerated negotiations and is centered on a 50-50 split of hockey-related revenues, contingent on a full, 82-game schedule being played starting...

If the Blackhawks truly want to retaliate Thursday night for Raffi Torres' dirty hit on Marian Hossa, the most satisfying method will be measured on the scoreboard and not in the penalty box. Hurting a Coyote won't necessarily help the Hawks. As tempted...