64 THE QUEENS COURIER •JANUARY 10, 2013 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.queenscourier.com LEAGUE, UNION COME TO TERMS s SEASON COULD START SOON puck drop It’s game on with NHL lockout over BY TERENCE M. CULLEN canceled matches, the All-Star Game and the 2013 Barker, a marketing and social media coordinator [email protected] Winter Classic, costing the NHL millions of dollars. for the hotspot. A federal mediator was eventually brought in to The staff noticed a slight decrease in patronage It’s over. work with the two sides as more and more games without hockey, but has still been steady because of After three and a half months of back and forth were slashed. football and basketball. negotiations, the NHL will be back on the ice with Under the new agreement, players and owners will “Luckily we do have NFL going on and basketball just more than half a season to be played. NHL have a 50/50 share of team revenue, which is a drop going on so we do have that crowd,” said Barker. Commissioner Gary Bettman announced on January from the 57 percent players received in the last CBA. Once the lockout is offi cially over Studio Square 6 that the league and the NHL Players’ Association During the lockout, the New York Islanders will return to its drink specials during regular season agreed on the outline of a new Collective Bargaining announced the team was moving to the Barclay’s games, Barker said. Agreement (CBA) that would stay in place for the Center in Brooklyn from Nassau Veterans Memorial “We do expect for the crowd to come back for next 10 years. League executives and players had Coliseum after the 2015 season — effectively ending NHL,” she said. been in talks for around 16 hours by the time an hopes that the team could move to a new facility Fan-made Rangers clothing line We Bleed Blue agreement was made. near Willets Point. spoke to The Courier last week about what the “Players’ representative Don Fehr and I are Because nearly half the season was canceled, bars company has been doing in spite of the lockout. here to tell you that we have reached an agreement that saw a frequent number of hockey fans last year Founders Brendan Gebert and John Rizzo said they for the framework of a new Collective Bargaining have seen a drop in patronage as fans grew frus- planned on being at Madison Garden for the fi rst Agreement,” Bettman said after talks ended. trated with the league and the players. puck drop. The lockout began at 11:59 p.m. on Saturday, At Studio Square in Long Island City, which Just a few hours after Bettman announced a September 15, after the two sides couldn’t agree on a hosted a number of special events during last year’s tentative agreement was made, the pair released a new CBA by a deadline to keep the full season alive. playoff season, the staff is looking forward to fans concept design that read: “I survived the lockout... In the weeks and months that followed, the league returning to watch the puck drop, said Jennifer again.”
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