Sunday, January 06, 2013

NHL, players' union reach tentative deal to end lockout


 By Rod Perry, CBC Sports Posted: Jan 6, 2013 5:16 AM ET
After months of being locked in a labour stalemate, the National Hockey League and its players are finally ready to get back to work.  Early on Sunday morning — day 113 of the lockout — NHL commissioner Gary Bettman confirmed from New York the two sides had reached a tentative agreement on the framework of a new collective bargaining agreement that will finally spark the beginning of the 2012-13 NHL season. Details of the new CBA were not immediately available, and Bettman cautioned they still needed to be ironed out fully.

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