NHL to End Lockout

The National Hockey League and it's players union reached a tentative deal to end the lockout on Sunday after a marathon 16-hour negotiation session at the Midtown Manhattan hotel. It's been 113 days since the lockout began.

Games are expected to begin before January 20 after the deal is ratified.

From NY Times:

The National Hockey League and its players union reached a tentative agreement on Sunday to end the lockout, after a marathon 16-hour negotiating session.

The end came at about 5 a.m. Sunday, the 113th day of the lockout, at a Midtown Manhattan hotel.

“Don Fehr and I are here to tell you that we have reached an agreement on a framework for a new collective bargaining agreement,” the N.H.L. commissioner Gary Bettman said, standing alongside Donald Fehr, the executive director of the N.H.L. Players’ Association. “We still have more work to do, but it’s good to be at this point.”