NHL, Players Might Resume Talks

By HELENE ELLIOTT

Dec. 27, 1994 12 AM PT

Negotiations between representatives of the NHL and its players association, which stalled in the past week and further jeopardized the start of the 1994-95 season, might resume today or Wednesday at a site to be determined.

A league source said he was “virtually certain” a meeting would be arranged today, but was not sure if it would take place today or be put off until Wednesday. No talks were held Monday.

No full-scale negotiations have taken place since Dec. 6 between Bob Goodenow, executive director of the NHL Players Assn., and Commissioner Gary Bettman. However, subcommittees from each side have met three times to discuss possible solutions to the lockout, which is in its 88th day.

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

NHL, Players Might Resume Talks

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