After nearly four months of on-again, off-again negotiations, players and owners in the National Hockey League have finally agreed to a tentative labor deal that will end a management-imposed lockout that entered its 114th day on Monday.
The NHL’s lawyers from Proskauer Rose and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom finally reached an agreement with their counterparts at the National Hockey League Players’ Association in the early morning hours of Sunday, January 6, after a marathon 16-hour negotiation session that involved emissaries shuttling between league headquarters and union advisers camped out three blocks away in the Grand Ballroom of the Sofitel New York Hotel.
