Saga Finally Ends As Islanders Announce Move To Barclays Center
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – Goodbye, Nassau. Hello, Brooklyn. The Islanders will become the borough’s second professional sports franchise when they move to Barclays Center in 2015. The team announced...
View ArticleSilverman: Islanders To Call Brooklyn Home, But What’s Really The Point?
By Steve Silverman » More Columns The news that the Islanders will be moving in three years to the Barclays Center in Brooklyn was not unexpected. However, it’s still big and it brings up a range of...
View ArticleHartnett: NHL Is On The Verge Of A PR Nightmare
By Sean Hartnett » More Columns All the ingredients are there for the NHL to flourish, except one thing: a man overseeing the sport with the best interests of the fans, owners and players at heart....
View ArticleArmageddon Closing In: NHL Cancels All Games Through Nov. 30
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — The NHL lockout has forced the cancellation of all games through the end of November. The NHL announced Friday that 326 regular-season games from Oct. 11 through Nov. 30 were...
View ArticleSilverman: Knicks, Nets Are Both Primed For Playoff Runs In 2012-13
By Steve Silverman » More Columns It’s finally here. The start of the winter sports season. No thanks to Gary Bettman and the NHL, which should have started early in October. But at least the NBA is...
View ArticleSilverman: NHL Hope Grows Amid Winter Classic Cancellation
By Steve Silverman » More Columns The Winter Classic is dead this year, but as the NHL buries its most popular regular-season event there is hope that the lockout won’t wipe out the entire season. Just...
View ArticleNHL Lockout: League, Players’ Union To Resume Talks Tuesday
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – The NHL and the players’ association stuck to their word and made quick plans to get back to the bargaining table. After all-day negotiations Saturday, the sides agreed...
View ArticleNHL, Players’ Association Take Talks Into Wednesday, Hope To Make More Progress
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — At least they’re still trying. The NHL and the players’ association did all their talking at the bargaining table, far away from the public eye. With another round of talks...
View ArticleNHL Labor Talks Under Way For Fourth Straight Day
NEW YORK (AP) — The NHL and the union have begun a fourth straight day of talks in an effort to end a lockout that threatens the entire season. Negotiators returned to bargaining Friday morning,...
View ArticleSilverman: Talk Is Cheap; Bettman’s NHL Lockout Goes On And On
By Steve Silverman » More Columns Talking is better than not talking. Sitting at the negotiating table is a step closer to ending the mind-numbing NHL lockout, but progress has been slow. In...
View ArticleNHL, NHLPA Fail To Reach Agreement After Four Days Of Talks
NEW YORK (AP) — A fourth straight day of NHL labor talks failed to bring the league and its locked-out players any closer to a deal that would put hockey back on the ice and save the season. In fact,...
View ArticleNHL, NHLPA Meet For Lunch
NEW YORK (AP) — NHL labor talks took a break Saturday — an old-fashioned lunch break. Instead of returning to the negotiating table for a fifth straight day, representatives from the NHL and the...
View ArticleNo Progress Made In NHL Labor Talks
NEW YORK (AP) — As quickly as NHL labor negotiations got going again, they came to a screeching halt. Now there is no telling when the league and the players will return to the bargaining table. After...
View ArticleLatest Round Of NHL Labor Talks Offer No Progress, Little Optimism
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Both sides in the NHL labor fight seem willing to talk. The problem is neither group likes what is being said at the other end of the table. Negotiations restarted Sunday...
View ArticleLichtenstein: Bettman Criticism Useless As Screaming At Puppets
By Steve Lichtenstein » More Columns After yet another suspension in negotiations between the NHL owners and the Players’ Association, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman can be sure to expect another...
View ArticleNo Communication Between NHL, Union As Lockout Drags On
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Now the NHL and the locked-out players’ association aren’t even talking by phone. With the lockout about to enter its third month, communications between the fighting sides...
View ArticleNHL Suggests Two-Week ‘Moratorium’ On Labor Talks
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Negotiations had already hit a wall in the ongoing hockey labor fight, and now the NHL has suggested the sides take an official two-week break before getting back to the...
View ArticleNHL-NHLPA Talks To Begin For First Time In 8 Days
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — For the first time in eight days, the NHL and the players’ association are heading back to the bargaining table to try again to reach a deal that will end the two-month old...
View ArticleAt Union’s Request, NHL To Resume Labor Talks With Locked-Out Players
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – So much for a two-week break. Just over a week since the last set of failed negotiations, the NHL and the locked-out players’ association will return to the bargaining table...
View ArticleNHL, Union Resume Talks; League Wants Full Proposal From NHLPA
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — The NHL and the locked-out players are talking again, just not for very long. After an eight-day wait between bargaining sessions — as hockey remained on ice — negotiations...
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