The 2012-2013 NHL season isn’t the only issue hanging in the balance. If the ongoing lockout were to wipe out the entire season, with no Collective Bargaining Agreement for the foreseeable future, Canada may not be able to send the usual array of top NHL talent to Sochi, Russia for the 2014 Winter Olympics. Olympic participation of NHL players is an often forgotten part of the CBA talks.
About Wayne Scanlan
It has been my pleasure to carry a flag for the Citizen sports department for 25 years, and a privilege to write a column since 1991. As the NHL Senators took over our town, I shifted in the mid-1990s from a general sports columnist to a mostly hockey guy. Representing this newspaper and its chain I have covered men's and women's hockey at several Olympic Games. London was my 10th Olympic assignment, as part of the Postmedia team at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in England.
Along the ride I have been fortunate to cover the Tour de France, twice, and numerous Stanley Cup playoffs and Grey Cup championships. The Senators will dictate further travel plans.
When Denis Potvin was captain of the New York Islanders, his teammates had a nickname for Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
A deal will get done in the NHL. Eventually. Perhaps even sooner than the overheated rhetoric might suggest.
The PR battle is full on. Everything is out in the media now. Here is a copy of the NHL CBA proposal to its locked-out players, as released Wednesday. NHL’S PROPOSAL TO NHLPA TO SAVE THE 82-GAME 2012/13 SEASON We have reached a critical point in our collective bargaining negotiations. In an attempt to save [...]
Here is a copy of Donald Fehr’s letter to players and agents regarding his initial reaction to the much-ballyhooed NHL offer Tuesday. As you can see, the union chief tosses a bucket of cold water on all the excitement that a deal could be close. TSN’s Bob McKenzie revealed the contents this morning, after obtaining [...]
Glen Bradley turned away from NHL hockey long before it became trendy during this lockout. “Amateur sport is my thing, I’m not much into professional,” says Bradley, a fixture at Barbara Ann Scott Arena, as any visitor to the rink over the past 35 years could attest. Today Bradley is assistant general manager of the [...]
It is one of the most commonly heard lockout phrases (right up there with the two that always warm the heart — ‘hockey related revenue’ and ‘core economic issues’). The phrase: Nobody wins in a lockout.