Donald Fehr

Negotiations between the NHL and the players association resumed Thursday at the league’s Manhattan offices following lengthy talks that went past midnight EST and involved a federal mediator for the third time. Although it was widely assumed...

Sitting in a hockey locker room, Steve Chase became the latest die-hard fan fed up with the NHL lockout.  Living in Los Angeles, Chase believed the league had squandered all the goodwill built in the area after the Kings won the Stanley Cup. His...

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...

TORONTO -- NHL labor negotiations will resume today, with mediators rejoining the talks at an undisclosed location in an effort to save the hockey season.   The Canadian Press on Tuesday reported the restart of bargaining between the league and union,...

Kings enforcer Kevin Westgarth went through the same emotional extremes felt by everyone else who had an interest in the labor talks held last week in New York between the NHL and the players’ association. But Westgarth was a member of the players&...

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 -- 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...

The NHL Players' Association has voted to give its executive board the option to file a disclaimer of interest as part of the process to disband the union if it chooses to do so. The players' vote was conducted during a five-day period and passed...

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...