Executives at Molson Coors, the oldest and largest beer company in Canada, are not very happy with this whole NHL lockout thing. The brewing giant says the lockout is to blame for a sobering decline in beer sales.
October 16, 2012 Could it be? Is the end to the NHL lockout finally getting closer? The NHL offered the players union a 50/50 split in hockey related revenue, a drop from the 57 percent that the players received in the past, along with a full 82-game season to begin on November 2 (a money saver so teams won't have to refund season ticket holders).
The Sabres should have opened the season tomorrow night against the Pittsburgh Penguins, but because of the NHL lockout that game and at least the first few weeks of the season are not happening. Missing the sport, Daybreak's Kevin O'Neill did what most of us do, lived vicariously through a video game to see what happened
Hockey is back! Hockey is dead!
Today may be the day that we find out which of those statements will turn out correct. The NHL preseason has already been cancelled, and the lockout is about to enter its third week. Stunningly, Friday was the first time the players and the owners have even met to discuss anything since September 15.
It looks like we have another sport involved in another lockout on our hands. This time it's the NHL that is in talks about a new agreement between ownership and players.
Hockey fans screamed in unanimous horror when it was announced that there may be no 2012-2013 NHL hockey season. This lockout means a long "break" from one of the top four mainstream major sports.
The 2012 NHL lockout is only about a week underway, but singer/songwriter Vicki Shae of Winnipeg-based radio station QX 104 already has a song ready to mend the broken hearts of fans everywhere. And it's a nifty parody of Taylor Swift's 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together' to boot. Nothing lessens the sting of a painful labor dispute more than a heartfelt breakup tune, right?
September 19, 2012 Another week, another bunch of people who think their iPhones make them professional photographers. This week, we let the words do the talking.
Apple can sell anything just by putting an "I" in front of it, and KISS can indoctrinate children into their Army with free tickets. Also, just to remind you, the Bills choked in New York, but we have at least another year of watching quality football, which is a good thing since there probably won't be any hockey. Here's another editon of "This Week in Not Quite History...Yet"
September 13, 2012 This city has so much more to offer sports-wise than two failing teams. Sure, our other sports teams may not be winning championships just yet, but they’re on the upswing and are sure to make you forget “No Goal” and “Wide Right.”
An exciting opening round will most likely lead to more of the same in the conference semi-finals. I’ll recap my earlier picks and predict the next round.
Before the beginning of the playoffs I made my first-round predictions for the Eastern Conference, and they turned out surprisingly well
Tonight marks the beginning of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, and even though the Sabres won’t be playing, there will be plenty of excitement to go around.
