January 6, 2013 - Day 114: After a painful 3 and a half months for Hockey fans, the ongoing labor dispute between the players and owners has come to a quick and unexpected end. A tentative deal was worked out at 5 a.m. this morning after 16 consecutive hours of tireless negotiations. The league is going to take this coming week to get all of it's players back from whatever leagues they were playing in and plan a 48-50 game season.
January 5, 2013 - Day 113: For the second time in nine years, the National Hockey League has been locked out and over half the season has been cancelled. The two sides are very far apart in working out a revenue split. However, the two adversaries only have one week at this point to work out a Collective Bargaining Agreement if they want to get in a proposed 48-game season which would be scheduled to start on January 19th.This is the shortest season that commissioner Gary Bettman has said he will go. Bill Daly has said that any season must start in "mid-January". So, if no deal can be worked out within the next week, it's definitely the end of any chance at a season.
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