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LOS ANGELES -- The NHL Player Safety group is reviewing Duncan Keith's one-handed slash to the face of Jeff Carter, although whether anything else comes of it remains to be seen. The Player Safety group reviews anything that's even remotely border...

Undrafted and waived twice in the same month of his first full NHL season, Chris Kunitz never would have envisioned that one day he would be sitting third overall in scoring in the top league in the world, writes Pierre LeBrun.

NHL owners have made it official: The Detroit Red Wings and Columbus Blue Jackets are heading east, as realignment was approved.

The NHL is proposing a new realignment plan which would feature playoff wild-card spots plus see the league go from six divisions to four.

The general manager hire in Columbus this week, Jarmo Kekalainen getting his first shot at last, made me think that there are other strong candidates awaiting promotion around the NHL. With that, I bring you a list of assistant GMs I believe deserve ...

Who feels like a little escrow talk? Zzzzzz. Nevertheless, I forge onward. The NHL and NHL Players' Association agreed this week to withhold 10 percent of each player's paycheck this season and put it into the escrow fund. If players' com...

The NHL and NHL Players' Association have set this season's escrow rate at 10 percent, both sides confirmed to ESPN.com Thursday.

You wonder if Alexander Medvedev is at some point going to realize that silence is a better option. The KHL president's continued criticism of the NHL over the past week, in the wake of Russian star players having to leave his league and head back...

The top unsigned player in the NHL is forward Jamie Benn, and he wasn't at the opening of Dallas Stars camp Sunday. The restricted free agent was second in team scoring last season with 63 points (26-37) in 71 games and a pillar the Stars were bui...

NEW YORK -- Gary Bettman got his deal passed with flying colors, got a rousing backing from the chairman of the board, then said sorry to fans and players. All in all, a tidy little day for the NHL commissioner. There was grumbling from some ow...

The Olympics are not part of this tentative collective bargaining agreement, but that certainly doesn't mean the NHL and the NHL Players' Association are ignoring the matter. The two parties agreed to leave the Olympics out of the CBA, a departure...

NEW YORK -- My tweet went out at 5:09 a.m. ET announcing the NHL and the players' association had agreed to a tentative agreement for a new collective bargaining agreement. At last. And certainly not without some of the oddest and most frustra...

So, the executive board of the NHL Players' Association now has the hammer. The question is, will the board swing it? The NHLPA decided Friday to keep the results of the vote an internal matter, but several players confirmed to ESPN.com that the ...

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.

Well, let's be real, few of us thought mediation was going to work anyway. The real question now is where the NHL and NHL Players' Association go from here after mediation sessions in Woodbridge, N.J., were unable to unglue entrenched positions. ...

There won't be a Winter Classic this season, but Steven Stamkos has found his own version of it in Gary Roberts' backyard. Stamkos and a handful of other NHL players hit the outdoor rink this week at the home of the former NHL forward-turned-train...