lockout

NHL hockey is finally back, and this time it's official. The league and its players agreed to a required memorandum of understanding on Saturday night that truly makes the lockout a thing of the past. Training camps open Sunday and the 48-game regular season starts Saturday.

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The Minnesota Wild -- the team that arguably lost more momentum during the NHL lockout than any other -- is eager to get to work at recapturing it.

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If there is going to be a hockey season, the NHL and the players' association can't afford many more days like this.

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Hockey players are sticking together as a union for now and are working long and late hours with the NHL to try to reach a new collective bargaining agreement to get the game back on the ice.

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The proposals are flying back and forth between the NHL and the players' association. Whether significant progress is being made in the process still isn't all that clear.

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The NHL's latest offer to the players' association was enough for the sides to make plans to meet this weekend. The league and players are expected to talk via conference call on Saturday, and have tentative plans to meet Sunday in New York.

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NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly and players' association special counsel Steve Fehr spoke on the telephone but still haven't made plans to meet face to face.

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The NHL's lawsuit against its players was assigned to a relatively new federal judge who is a longtime New York Yankees fan and a former federal prosecutor.

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NHL players will begin voting Sunday on whether they will grant the players' association's executive board the authority to dissolve the union because of the inability to reach a collective bargaining agreement with the league.

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Negotiators from the NHL and the players' association made it into the same room to talk this time. They just didn't carry any meaningful progress out of it.

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