Ron Hainsey

NEW YORK (AP) — The NHL and the players' association reached a tentative agreement early Sunday to end a nearly four-month-old lockout that threatened to wipe out what was left of an already abbreviated season. A marathon negotiating session...

Hockey is back, and it took nearly four months and one long night to get the game back on the ice. With the season on the line, the NHL and the players’ association agreed on a tentative pact to end a 113-day lockout and save what was left of a...

NEW YORK (AP) — They walked into a Manhattan hotel, knowing they were running out of time to save their season.   After 16 hours of tense talks, the NHL and its players finally achieved their elusive deal early Sunday morning, finding a way to...

A delegation from the NHL Players' Assn. delivered another proposal to the league during a meeting Wednesday at the NHL's Manhattan offices. The session broke up after about an hour to allow NHL executives to analyze the latest move in what has suddenly...

The latest round of NHL labor talks ended with the two sides in different rooms from each other.  The players’ association and league negotiators met separately Wednesday with federal mediators in suburban New Jersey, holding discussions that...

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 —  The NHL and NHLPA remained at an impasse in the latest round of collective bargaining talks as the deadline for a lockout looms.     The players’ association took issue Wednesday with the latest NHL proposal that commissioner...

NEW YORK - The NHL and NHLPA remained at an impasse in the latest round of collective bargaining talks as the deadline for a lockout looms. The players' association took issue Wednesday with the latest NHL proposal that commissioner Gary Bettman...