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NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said Tuesday that the League is exploring every reasonable option for resuming the 2019-20 season and ensuring that it is ready to fully spring into action as soon as the "green light" is given by authorities and medical professionals. "From an NHL standpoint, and I'm sure this is what the other leagues are doing, we're viewing all of our options," Commissioner Bettman said on "Lunch Talk Live" on NBCSN. "We want to be ready to go as soon as we get a green light, and the green light may not be crystal clear because there may...

TORONTO - A Wall Street buyout firm and a sports advisory company reportedly made a joint proposal to buy all 30 NHL teams for as much as $3.5 billion. Bain Capital Partners LLC and Game Plan International, both based in Boston, made the offer in a 30-minute presentation to NHL owners on Tuesday in New York, sources told the Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail. The companies were invited to make their pitch by NHL commissioner Gary Bettman. Bain managing partner Steven Pagliuca, co-owner of the NBA’s Boston Celtics, and Game Plan, which recently acted as an adviser on...

They all should be ashamed of themselves. The owners. The players. Everybody. The deal was there to be done and both sides refused to go the extra mile to make it happen. "We have failed," was how Calgary Flames president and chief executive officer Ken King summed it up. As he cancelled the season Wednesday, National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman described it as a "Sad and regrettable day." You got that right....

End of NHL season may signal the end for aging stars 2/16/2005, 5:31 p.m. ET By LARRY LAGE The Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The last time Detroit Red Wings star Steve Yzerman played in an NHL game, during the 2004 playoffs, he had to be helped off the ice when a puck broke bones near his left eye. Yzerman vowed to return, with a visor, but didn't get the chance. With the league canceling the season over its labor woes Wednesday, Yzerman — along with a handful of NHL legends — may have been pushed into retirement. Yzerman, who...

Source: NHL plans to cancel season 2/14/2005, 1:25 p.m. ET By IRA PODELL The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — With no miracle save in sight and a weekend deadline long gone, the NHL made plans for a news conference Tuesday to cancel what little remained of a season already decimated by a lockout. A public relations executive, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press that planning was under way Monday for NHL commissioner Gary Bettman to make the announcement at a news conference in New York. The Canadian Press, citing an unidentified source, said Bettman will cancel...

Free Stanley's mission is to make sure there are Stanley Cup playoffs this hockey season. We love the Stanley Cup playoffs and we love the Cup. We believe it is the best trophy in all of sport, and it should not be denied to the best hockey team is playing this season. If there is no NHL season the Stanley Cup should then be awarded to the best hockey team in Canada, which was Lord Stanley's original intent for the Cup. A new model for Stanley's Cup We propose that the Stanley Cup be returned to its original challenge cup...

Linden: Little hope for season By Mark Brender January 21, 2005 NHL Players’ Association president Trevor Linden is telling players to be prepared for the lockout to continue deep into next season, The Hockey News has learned. In an audio message posted on the NHLPA’s internal website last night, Linden said he sees no basis for further meetings with the league. The league is insisting the only solution to the lockout is with a hard individual team salary cap and is not prepared to compromise in any way, Linden said. According to multiple sources, Linden told players the NHL refuses...

Hockey Fan Curses Lockout from Beyond the Grave Fri Jan 21, 1:56 PM ET Oddly Enough - Reuters TORONTO (Reuters) - A Canadian man has cursed the heads of the National Hockey League -- from beyond the grave. Archie Bennitz, 84, an ardent hockey fan from Kanata, Ontario, near Ottawa, used his own obituary to blast NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and NHL Players' Association executive Bob Goodenow, for the lockout which has left fans without hockey this year. The obituary, published in the Ottawa Citizen, was written by Bennitz's 45-year-old son David, who took dictation at his hospital bedside. In...