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For the NHL, term limits on contracts are "the hill they will die on", meaning that negotiating on that topic is futile -- they will not budge. But they're not the only ones who have that kind of topical stubbornness...

Eighteen players and six owners met behind closed doors over the last couple of days, and all we've gotten are vague updates as to their progress. But what really has been happening in these meetings, and which participants are driving results?

A respectful plea for compromise, for reconciliation, and an end to the 2012 NHL lockout.

Let's relocate the Toronto Maple Leafs!

As a depressed Linus inches closer to suicide, Charlie Brown stages a desperate intervention in this heartwarming holiday special.

Are owners crying wolf with losses associated with owning hockey teams? Gary Bettman, be gone! The Syracuse Crunch are all over the headlines too in our link update for Sunday.

It's a clash of wills and wallets when NHL commissioner Gary Bettman opposes influential Flyers owner Ed Snider's demands to end to the lockout in this (not really) classic British stage play.

What if the NHL and NHLPA threw a party and I went and watched the Syracuse Crunch instead?

A determined army of Orc-players, led by the mighty and dreaded dark lord Fehron, rampage against the on-coming faction of NHL team owners in book two of H.R.R. Tolkien's epic 'Lord of the Revenue" fantasy trilogy.

While the situation isn't exactly "no news", it's close. Perhaps you can have a shred of hope that a resolution is forthcoming. At least, for the moment.