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Sunday has been a weird day that followed 113 other weird days for hockey fans. Very early this morning, Gary Bettman stood in the middle of a media scrum pressed up against his mortal enemy Don...

Fans of the National Hockey League received what they have come to expect over the course of the past few months on Thursday night...bitter disappointment.

2012 NHL Lockout: Player/owners meeting will include Tampa Bay Lightning owner Jeff Vinik

The best way tod iscribe fans continuing displeasure is to site the fact the ongoing labor strife has rid the NHL fanbase of any positive morale.

While the NHL and the NHLPA keep going around and around, fans are wondering if there's a point.

"The Instigator", Jonathon Gatehouse's book about Gary Bettman's time as NHL commissioner, is a timely read for NHL fans.

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

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.

I bet you're getting sick and tired of these lockout posts. I know I am. I'm sick and tired of the sheer stupidity of two groups of reasonably smart people being unable to even get into the same...

The 2012 NHL lockout is turning into a rampant PR disaster for the NHL... You just have to look at the media narrative to find that proof. Francois Allaire is out in Toronto; What would the NHL look like if teams were only made up of players they h