Players watched with dismay last week as the NHL continued its strategy of demonizing NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr.
Once upon a time, Marc Methot would get excited with each new development in negotiations to reach a new collective bargaining agreement between NHL owners and players, thinking the end of the lockout could be near. “Not anymore,” the Ottawa Senators defenceman said Monday, following an off-ice workout at the Bell Sensplex. “For the first [...]
Stand on Little Lake, a slap shot away from Great Bear Lake, and you can’t help but think about infamous Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin. Or, more specifically, about what Franklin might have thought of a simple game evolving into such a complicated, nasty mess.
DELINE, NWT – If you’re going to travel through Canada’s north, you’ve got to go in style.
When Canadian North flight 444 from Edmonton touched down here into the snow-swept capital of the Northwest Territories at 9:30 a.m. Sunday, John Chabot finally allowed himself to take a deep breath.
Is Mark Recchi angling for a job with the NHL or with an NHL team? Ottawa Senators defenceman Chris Phillips was wondering aloud about that possibility Wednesday, when asked about Recchi’s comments that players should accept the NHL’s latest offer to end the NHL lockout. Recchi, the now retired feisty winger who played 24 years in the league, told the Boston Globe Tuesday that from here on in, the offers are only going to get worse.
It was smooth sailing for Chris Phillips when he went to Gävle, Sweden, to play for Brynas during the 2004-05 NHL lockout. The team helped him find an apartment, he and his wife Erin went to Ikea (where else?) to furnish it, and former Ottawa teammate Andreas Dackell, who was born and raised in Gävle and was back with Brynas after an eight-year NHL career, introduced the Phillips to his wide circle of friends.