NEW YORK (AP) – NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman still hasn’t spoken to players’ union chief Donald Fehr since a brief meeting Wednesday, but negotiators on both sides are back in contact as the lockout drags on.
There was no meeting Friday, after two straight days of negotiations at the league’s New York office, and there are no current plans for more bargaining to take place.
“We’ve talked. There is nothing scheduled,” NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly told The Associated Press in an email.
Frustration is building on both sides as the lockout approaches its fifth week. The first regular-season games were missed Thursday night – one week after the first 82 contests were wiped out – and Staples Center in Los Angeles will have to wait for the Kings’ Stanley Cup championship banner to be raised to the rafters.
The Kings were supposed to honor their first title-winning club Friday night before hosting the New York Rangers.
All games through Oct. 24 have been called off, and more cuts are expected soon with no new labor deal in sight.
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