NEWS LINKS ONLY - Lockout News & Updates

[LadyStanley]

Real_ESPNLeBrun 7:40pm via Twitter for BlackBerry® NHL sent out memo to teams tonight saying Jan 19 puck drop is most probable, however if ratification process goes fast, Jan 15 still in play


Edit:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nhl/2013/01/06/nhl-season-start-logistics/1812831/
Allen story on same

 

[GordonGecko]

7 Jan 13 Darren Dreger ‏@DarrenDreger
NHL teams told they remain in lockout mode until CBA is ratified. Union\league are chewing on transition rules. Some gm's annoyed at pace.

https://twitter.com/DarrenDreger/status/288303468882583552

 

[GordonGecko]

James Mirtle @mirtle
Wow - hearing ratification process and legal work on CBA may take a while. Could even be five or six more days.

https://twitter.com/mirtle/status/288307695650496512

 

[LadyStanley]

WRT ratification, AIUI, BOG (owners) will be meeting Wednesday to ratify. Players will be voting Thursday & Friday.

Sounds like training camps may open on Sunday.


http://www.ocregister.com/news/center-382823-hockey-arena.html
Honda Center (Anaheim) looking to hire 100 part time workers for arena.

And the NHL jobs site has dozens of jobs coming up daily for everything from receptionist to prep cook.

 

[LadyStanley]

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=413131
BOG meeting today. Post vote presser expected ~4pm ET (1pm PT).

Been hearing that it might not be a 30-0 result.

 

[LadyStanley]

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-p...ey-cup-playoffs-could-end-163740000--nhl.html
Schedule very much up in the air. Sounds like schedule won't be released until after NHLPA ratification (which is scheduled for Thursday/Friday). Seems like RS will end late April, and playoffs run until as late as June 28. Draft would be June 29-30.

(Maybe they'll hold the NHL awards the evening of 30th @ draft location?)

 

[LadyStanley]

http://aol.sportingnews.com/nhl/sto...ng-season-tickets-steven-stamkos-vincent-leca

Tampa Bay offers 200 STHs @ $200 (FCFS) post lockout

 

[LadyStanley]

TGfireandice 1:53pm via TweetDeck Player ratification vote will be held electronically Friday and Saturday. Camps tentatively scheduled to open Sunday.

 

[LadyStanley]

http://video.nhl.com/videocenter/console?catid=53&id=192205&navid=nhl:topheads
Bettman presser (post BOG vote)

 

[LadyStanley]

http://video.nhl.com/videocenter/console?catid=53&id=192204&cmpid=embed-share-video
Jacobs presser post BOG ratification

 

[LadyStanley]

http://coyotes.nhl.tv/team/console.jsp?catid=-6&id=192244&cmpid=rss-whatsnew
Q&A portion of Bettman's presser

 

[LadyStanley]

JSportsnet 9:22pm via Twitter for BlackBerry® No formal signing of CBA is being contemplated yet. Still hammering out a Memorandum of Understanding for both sides.

 

[LadyStanley]

Pierre LeBrun ‏@Real_ESPNLeBrun NHL clubs have received their team schedules, however, are now getting back to the league with any changes they absolutely need





(And start making travel arrangements that nominally would have been done over the summer....)

 

[GordonGecko]

Aaron WardVerified ‏@aaronward_nhl
NHL teams have received their final 2013 Schedule earlier this morning. #TSN

https://twitter.com/aaronward_nhl/status/289746167649161217

 

[GordonGecko]

ignore the typo on the "2012" in the listings, should be "2013"

 

[LadyStanley]

http://www.blueshirtbanter.com/2013/1/12/3869608/nhl-lockout-over-2013-nhl-schedule-release-date

NHLPA vote finished @ 8am ET (since nothing negative has been heard, one assumes that the CBA was ratified). But we wait for the MOU (memorandum of understanding) to be completed/signed as that will be the defacto CBA the league will be operating under until the actual CBA document is finished. Once the MOU is done, it'll be signed, the lockout is officially lifted, scheduled released, and all player transactions (recalls from AHL, signing those remaining RFAs and some UFAs, and even any trades that might have been agreed to) can start.

 

[LadyStanley]

TSNBobMcKenzie 1:21pm via Twitter for BlackBerry® Hearing once MOU is signed by NHL and NHLPA - we're still waiting and don't know exactly when - signings/trades legal 2 hours after that.

 

[LadyStanley]

Real_ESPNLeBrun 1:44pm via Twitter for BlackBerry® NHLPA announces players ratify CBA. But MOU still not done with NHL...

 

[trader11]

http://www.nhlpa.com/news/players-vote-to-ratify-new-collective-bargaining-agreement-with-nhl-owners

 

[LadyStanley]

RenLavoieRDS 2:00pm via Twitter for BlackBerry® 98% of players voted yes. New CBA will be in place when the MOU will be sign.

 

[LadyStanley]

Real_ESPNLeBrun 2:20pm via Twitter for BlackBerry® Player ratification vote: 667 yes, 12 no - 98.2 percent. 679 of 763 players voted (89 percent)

 

[metalfoot]

https://twitter.com/JeffDeacs/status/290297259906719744

Jeff Deacon ‏@JeffDeacs

#NHL Memorandum of Understanding has been signed. Schedule to come out shortly. #MOU

 

[LadyStanley]

RenLavoieRDS 10:20pm via Twitter for BlackBerry® All players are required to report to camp before January 14th at 10:00 AM.