| Lemieux says he was misled by players (AP) |
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Mario Lemieux says he was led to believe the NHL Players' Association would submit a new offer when he agreed to participate in a negotiating session just days after the season was canceled, according to a newspaper report. Lemieux, the player-owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins, and Phoenix managing...
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| Leo Labine, former Bruin, dead at 73 (AP) |
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Former Boston Bruin and Detroit Red Wing Leo Labine is dead at 73. Labine, nicknamed the Lion, died Friday at North Bay Hospital, a hospital spokesman confirmed. He played 12 years in the NHL, with 128 goals and 321 points in 643 games. Labine saw his first action with the Bruins in 1951-52, when...
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| Disney to sell Mighty Ducks to Samueli (AP) |
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The Walt Disney Co. agreed to sell the Anaheim Mighty Ducks to billionaire Henry Samueli and his wife Susan. Samueli's company operates the Arrowhead Pond, the Mighty Ducks' home arena. The deal, announced Friday by Samueli, is subject to approval by the NHL. However, it won't be on the agenda...
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| Four UHL players suspended after melee (AP) |
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A United Hockey League player was kicked out of the league permanently on Friday and three others were suspended after a fight-filled game in which one player grabbed a coach on the opposing bench. Chad Wagner of the Danbury Trashers was banned from the league, and defenseman Dave MacIsaac was...
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| Canadiens lay off employees (AP) |
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The Montreal Canadiens laid off an unspecified number of employees on Thursday, more than a week after the NHL season was canceled because of the lockout. Team spokesman Dominick Saillant wouldn't disclose how many of the 140 full-time employees were let go, but communications coordinator Frederic...
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| Union to meet with agents next week (AP) |
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Agents for NHL players will meet next week with union representatives for an update on labor talks, one day after the players' association gets together with its rank and file. The gathering of agents Wednesday in Toronto with union executive director Bob Goodenow will be the second such meeting...
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| Lake Placid arena renamed after Brooks (AP) |
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Patti Brooks never stopped brushing away the tears. The 25th anniversary of her husband's crowning achievement nearly was too much to handle. The rink where Brooks coached the U.S. Olympic hockey team to its stunning gold-medal victory 25 years ago now bears his name. It was renamed Wednesday night...
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| NHL to have new look when play resumes (AP) |
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The changes might be drastic enough to tempt 44-year-old Wayne Gretzky into coming out of retirement. After years of lobbying for a more scoring-friendly and fan-appealing league, Hall of Famer Mario Lemieux is convinced the NHL is ready to grant his wish. The only problem is ending the lockout...
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| NHL to allow its personnel in worlds (AP) |
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The NHL will allow league personnel to take part in the upcoming world hockey championships even if the lockout that canceled the season is still ongoing. ``After due consideration to all of the relevant and sometimes competing concerns, we have decided that NHL management personnel (including NHL...
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| UHL coach suspended for offering bounty (AP) |
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Motor City Mechanics coach Steve Shannon understands the United Hockey League's decision to suspend him for the rest of the season even though he denies offering players a $200 bounty to take out a rival on the ice. ``It's unfortunate for me personally,'' Shannon said. ``The findings I don't agree...
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| Predators, Gaylord settle lawsuit (AP) |
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The Nashville Predators don't know when they will play again, but the team settled a legal fight Tuesday with an original investor over shares and naming rights for their arena. The Predators said a settlement was reached that will allow the team to buy back the remaining shares owned by Gaylord...
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| NHL season is dead -- again (AP) |
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After one last gasp and 6 1/2 hours of negotiations with two Hall of Famers, the NHL season is dead -- again. Even having Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux at the bargaining table didn't help as talks broke down Saturday and left the already canceled hockey season totally lost. ``It's certainly not...
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| NHL season may not be dead yet (AP) |
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The greatest save in NHL history might come at the bargaining table. Just two days after the season was called off because of the protracted lockout, the announcement was made Friday that the NHL and the players' association scheduled a meeting in New York on Saturday at the request of the league....
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| Lockout already taking its toll (AP) |
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Imagine the teeth-gnashing if a labor dispute deprived Yankee Stadium of baseball for at least 17 months, or the wailing over no football at Green Bay's history-steeped Lambeau Field. In puckthirsty cities like Detroit, which proudly dubs itself Hockeytown, such is the level of despair among fans...
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| Minors offer options for shut-out fans (AP) |
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With season tickets five rows behind the Chicago Blackhawks' bench, Rich Steineke got to see all the hockey he wanted. Now that the NHL has canceled its season, though, he's looking for something to fill the void. And the minor league Chicago Wolves are the next-best thing. ``I think I'll go to a...
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| Rumors: NHL season might not be dead yet (AP) |
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It's still hard for the hockey faithful to accept that the NHL season was really canceled. And on Thursday, there was still some reason not to believe it. Day 155 of the NHL lockout was, stunningly, Day 1 of the offseason. But that didn't stop the rumor mill from generating talk that the season...
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| Moore sues Bertuzzi for `unprovoked hit' (AP) |
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Former Colorado Avalanche player Steve Moore filed a lawsuit against the Vancouver Canucks forward Todd Bertuzzi, who pleaded guilty to assault after slugging Moore in the head from behind during a game last season. Moore's attorney, Lee Foreman, said in a statement that the lawsuit filed Tuesday...
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| Probert acquitted in fight with police (AP) |
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Former NHL player Bob Probert was acquitted of all charges stemming from a fight with police officers last year that led to him being shocked with stun guns. The 39-year-old Probert was found not guilty Thursday of three felony charges -- battery on a police officer, resisting an officer with...
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| Where do NHL, players go from here? (AP) |
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Football, a sport so much more popular and richer than hockey the two almost cannot be compared, never attempted a gambit so risky. Neither did baseball, a sport so indigenous to the fabric of American society that its very president once was a team owner. The NFL, Major League Baseball and the NBA...
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| No title defense for Stanley Cup champs (AP) |
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A replica of the Stanley Cup sat on a table behind copies of a letter the Tampa Bay Lightning sent to season ticket holders after the NHL season was canceled. On Wednesday, it became official that the league champions will not get an opportunity to defend their title this spring, and team president...
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| Game Off! NHL season canceled (AP) |
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The NHL canceled its season exactly five months after the lockout started. Now there's no telling when there will be games again. ``We're planning to have hockey next season,'' NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said Wednesday. That won't be easy. Last-gasp negotiations got the league and the players'...
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| Players say deal could have been reached (AP) |
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Rod Brind'Amour knew right away how bad Wednesday was for hockey. ``The game's just suffered an absolute blow it'll never recover from,'' the Carolina Hurricanes forward said. ``They're totally underestimating the damage that's being done.'' NHL commissioner Gary Bettman canceled the remainder of...
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| Lemieux supports owners' hard stance (AP) |
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There never was any doubt where hockey's biggest name stood in the NHL lockout. These days, Mario Lemieux is the Pittsburgh Penguins' owner first and a player second, not the other way around. Lemieux might have captained Team Canada to a World Cup championship in September, but has said repeatedly...
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| NHL rejects union's counteroffer (AP) |
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A whole new round of back-and-forth began: a final offer, a rejection. A counterproposal, a rejection. With just hours before the NHL was set to cancel the season, the league and the players' association were still far apart. But they were talking. Early Tuesday evening, the league had made a...
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| Theodore's father fined for loansharking (AP) |
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The father of Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jose Theodore was fined about $24,000 by a court Tuesday for his part in a loansharking ring. Ted Nicholas Theodore, 71, pleaded guilty in December to loansharking and possessing a restricted weapon. The fine will be deducted from about $525,000 seized...
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| Bourque's son scores Beanpot winner (AP) |
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Just another big goal by Bourque in Boston. This one came from the kid. With his father's retired No. 77 jersey hanging high above the ice, Boston University freshman Chris Bourque scored 14:10 into overtime Monday night to give the Terriers a 3-2 victory over Northeastern in the Beanpot...
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| Miracle men upset with state of hockey (AP) |
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The moment pushed an entire sport from the sideline to center stage and made Americans believe anything was possible. A quarter century after the Miracle on Ice, however, the stories being told about hockey aren't nearly so heartwarming. The players who were part of one of hockey's greatest moments...
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| Players agree to cap, talks still end (AP) |
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The NHL players' association agreed to accept a salary cap, but contract talks broke down early Tuesday over the amount that teams would pay. Even while the negotiations were going on, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman had already planned to announce the cancellation of the season Wednesday, a source...
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| NHL, players fail with mediators (AP) |
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A federal mediator tried to help the NHL and the players' association reach a deal just hours before a deadline to save the season. That didn't work, either. No progress was reported by the sides Sunday after a five-hour meeting in Washington that occurred as time ticked down on the NHL's weekend...
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| Mother of Caps' Halpern killed in crash (AP) |
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The mother of Washington Capitals forward Jeff Halpern was one of four people killed in a fiery crash with a fuel tanker. Gloria Halpern, 56, of Potomac, Md., was in a car that was crushed when the fuel tanker flipped over Friday night, the Capitals said. Relatives said her brother Alan Klein, 52,...
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| Gag order lifted, but no one talking (AP) |
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Neither the NHL nor the players' union did anything Saturday to avert a deadline that had ticked down to its last 24 hours for saving what little remained of the season. A cancellation announcement could come as early as Monday, making the NHL the first major North American sports league to lose an...
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| Analysts: Short season would be mistake (AP) |
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The NHL would further alienate its diminishing fan base by trying to salvage a season that's ruined beyond repair, and is better off canceling the season as it tries to solve its labor mess, according to some well-known sports economists. Negotiations between the league and its locked-out players...
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| Three NHLers accused of rape, suspended (AP) |
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Three NHL players, in Europe during the lockout, were suspended on Saturday for the rest of the season by Sweden's ice hockey federation after being accused of rape. Kristian Huselius and Andreas Lilja of the Florida Panthers, and Buffalo Sabres defenseman Henrik Tallinder reportedly told police...
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| Smolinski, Avery join UHL's Mechanics (AP) |
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Two more NHL players signed with the United Hockey League's Motor City Mechanics on Friday -- the 149th day of the lockout. The minor league team signed centers Bryan Smolinski of the Ottawa Senators and Sean Avery of the Los Angeles Kings. Last week, the team signed Detroit Red Wings defensemen...
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| Three NHLers questioned in sex assault (AP) |
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Three NHL players left Sweden's national hockey team Friday, one day after they were questioned by police about a possible sexual assault. Kristian Huselius and Andreas Lilja of the Florida Panthers, and Henrik Tallinder of the Buffalo Sabres were questioned Thursday night and released. None were...
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| Talks end, no sign they will restart (AP) |
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The only thing the NHL and the players' association are close to is stamping out a season that never started. No talks, no deals, and with the clock ticking on a weekend deadline, virtually no chance of playing hockey. That was the word from both sides after yet another failed negotiating session...
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| Heatley signs with Russian team (AP) |
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Dany Heatley signed with a Russian hockey team Thursday, less than a week after pleading guilty to charges in the 2003 death of Atlanta Thrashers teammate Dan Snyder and being sentenced to three years' probation. Heatley, MVP of the 2003 NHL All-Star game, will join Atlanta's Ilya Kovalchuk with AK...
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| Louis Sutter, father of six NHLers, dies (AP) |
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Louis John Sutter, who watched six sons play in the NHL, died Thursday following a lengthy illness. He was 73. ``All of Alberta and the hockey world understand the impact that Mr. Sutter and his family have had on our game and in our communities,'' said Ken King, the president of the Calgary Flames...
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| Bettman: There must be deal by weekend (AP) |
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By this weekend, the NHL will either have a surprising deal that saves the hockey season or a dubious place in history. The long-awaited deadline is set. If the league and the union can't hammer out a new collective bargaining agreement in this last round of talks that started secretly in Toronto...
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| Sources: No contact for NHL, players (AP) |
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It was a quiet weekend for the NHL and the players' association. There were no meetings, e-mail, or phone calls between the sides. Also missing were signs that the league is set to pull the plug on the season that has yet to start. The NHL and the players' association have not been in contact since...
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| Flyers' Hitchcock still coaching (AP) |
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Flyers coach Ken Hitchcock was having a super Sunday even hours before good friend Andy Reid led the Philadelphia Eagles in the Super Bowl. Hitchcock was back on skates, wearing Flyers black and orange from head to toe and a whistle around his neck. He wasn't yelling instructions or encouragement...
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| Heatley supported by Snyder's family (AP) |
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A day after being sentenced to probation, Atlanta Thrashers star Dany Heatley thanked the family of teammate Dan Snyder for urging a judge to keep him out of jail. Heatley had pleaded guilty in Snyder's death in a 2003 car crash. ``I made a mistake,'' Heatley said at a news conference Saturday. ``I...
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| Wings' Lidstrom: Proposal not worth vote (AP) |
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As the NHL lockout dragged to its 142nd day Friday, Detroit Red Wings star Nicklas Lidstrom said he doesn't think the latest proposal from the league is worth voting on as a union. ``If there is a good enough offer I think it should, but right now it isn't a good enough offer to place a vote on,''...
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| Montrealers find other Saturday options (AP) |
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It's been a strange winter for Jean Beliveau. Across Canada, Saturday night is ``Hockey Night,'' a ritual that bonds the generations who sit in front of televisions and watch the national pastime. But not this year. ``Usually I invite a couple of people to each game, and I would prefer to see them...
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| NHL labor talks end without progress (AP) |
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Even if the negotiating has stopped yet again, the clock on the hockey season keeps ticking. After 13 hours of talks between representatives of the NHL and the players' association over two days, the sides broke off discussions Friday with no plans to meet again. Though popular opinion held that...
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| Heatley gets probation in Snyder's death (AP) |
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Graham Snyder lost his son when Atlanta Thrashers star Dany Heatley crashed a convertible while speeding on a winding road. The father asked a judge Friday not to compound that loss by putting Heatley in jail. The judge honored the request, sentencing Heatley to three years' probation after he...
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| NHL, union plan to continue talks Friday (AP) |
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There appears to be one more chance to save the hockey season, and the NHL and the players' association are taking it. The sides met for nine hours Thursday, one day after the union rejected the league's latest salary-cap proposal, and made plans to get together again Friday. ``The meeting with the...
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| Blues' Jackman, Johnson join UHL team (AP) |
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Barrett Jackman and Ryan Johnson of the St. Louis Blues will play for the Missouri River Otters of the United Hockey League while the NHL is mired in a work stoppage. Jackman, a defenseman and the NHL's rookie of the year in 2002-03, and Johnson, a center, were to be introduced at a news conference...
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| Rangers D Purinton suspended by ECHL (AP) |
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New York Rangers defenseman Dale Purinton was suspended indefinitely by the ECHL on Thursday, following a fight he had while playing for the Victoria Salmon Kings. Purinton, who has been playing minor league hockey during the NHL lockout, refused to stop fighting and pulling the hair of Fresno's...
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| Union rejects NHL's latest offer (AP) |
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Gary Bettman and Bob Goodenow are returning to the bargaining table. Optimism is still absent from negotiations aimed at ending the NHL lockout. The commissioner and union chief will attend Thursday's negotiating session in New York, one day after the players' association rejected the league's...
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| Devils, Newark agree on arena deal (AP) |
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After more than six years of aborted plans and on-again, off-again negotiations, city officials and the New Jersey Devils signed an agreement Wednesday to build an 18,000-seat arena that is scheduled to be completed in time for the start of the 2007-2008 NHL season. Calling it ``one of the greatest...
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| Wings' Hatcher scores in UHL debut (AP) |
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Detroit Red Wings defenseman Derian Hatcher scored a power-play goal Wednesday night in his United Hockey League debut. Hatcher and his Motor City Mechanics teammates lost to the Flint Generals 5-1 in front of 4,421 fans at a sold-out Peranis Arena. He and fellow Detroit defenseman Chris Chelios,...
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| Hockey talks to resume Wednesday (AP) |
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The NHL might have a new proposal for the players' association when the sides return to the bargaining table. No one will say if the talks Wednesday represent the last chance to save the hockey season, but time is clearly running out. When the league does make its next offer, the proposal is...
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| Auction raises $72,000 for tsunami aid (AP) |
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The NHL raised $72,000 to benefit the victims of the tsunami in the Indian Ocean through an online auction of hockey memorabilia and other unique items. The auction was held on the league's Web site from Jan. 20-27 and brought in $36,000. The NHL Foundation then matched that amount, lifting the...
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| Still no talking between NHL, players (AP) |
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The NHL and the players' association are now disputing whether they have anything to talk about. The sides have had just limited contact by phone since Thursday, when the league presented more salary-cap concepts in an effort to reach a new collective bargaining agreement. But even that talking...
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| Chelios and Hatcher to play in CHL (AP) |
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Red Wings defensemen Chris Chelios and Derian Hatcher are set to join the Motor City Mechanics of the United Hockey League, Detroit teammate Kris Draper said Monday night. Mechanics director of public relations, Lauren Segall, said the players will sign to play ``more than one game'' for the...
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| Door left open for NHL players at Turin (AP) |
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The IOC and hockey's ruling body are leaving the door open for NHL players at the 2006 Turin Olympics. International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge said Monday the decision is up to the president of the International Ice Hockey Federation. Rene Fasel, the IIHF president, said he will...
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