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With the Olympics less than a year away, IOC inspectors are visiting Sochi again to check on preparations for the 2014 Winter Games.

The NHL Players' Association after much thought has given its thumbs up to the NHL's proposed re-alignment plan.

The NHL has made a new proposal to the NHL Players' Association with time ticking toward a canceled season, the league confirmed Friday.

Looking back at the NHL labor negotiations in 2012 is akin to that sensation you get when you scratch your fingernails on a blackboard. But we will re-visit this sordid (and still unfinished) saga from the start, writes Pierre LeBrun.

The NHL Players' Association says it is ready to resume talks in the labor dispute but is waiting for league negotiators to feel the same way.

Steve Fehr and Bill Daly touched based Tuesday in a short phone call, and I wonder if it wasn't for any reason other than to be able to tell us inquiring media types that they touched base for the first time since last Friday. I'm joking. Kind of....

As we run out of time on a possible NHL season, there's plenty of blame to go around, writes Pierre LeBrun.

The NHL and NHL Players' Association are scheduled to resume bargaining talks Wednesday, sources on both sides told ESPN.com late Monday night.

NHL bargaining talks will resume Monday in New York City, the league told ESPN.

The NHL and NHL Players' Association resume bargaining Tuesday in New York City after a marathon session between Steve Fehr and Bill Daly over the weekend that produced a little traction. Cautious optimism were the two words most spoken in the hoc...

The NHL has communicated to the NHLPA a willingness to fund a healthy portion of the "Make Whole" provision to honor all existing contracts, a source close to the talks told ESPN.com.

The NHL will withdraw its latest proposal to the NHL Players' Association once Thursday's deadline to have a new deal in place comes and goes.

The NHL and NHL Players' Association can't agree to meet at this point.

The NHL Players' Association was not informed last week when the NHL gave its 30 general managers a 48-hour window to answer questions directly from players regarding the league's labor proposal.

Labor talks between the NHL and the locked-out players' association will resume Tuesday in Toronto, league deputy commissioner Bill Daly told ESPN.com.

The NHL and NHLPA met Friday at the union offices in Toronto, NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly told ESPN.com via email.