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Tentative deal for NHL, NHLPA to end lockout
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It’s done. Drop the puck.
After a 16-hour overnight negotiating session with federal mediator Scot Beckenbaugh in Manhattan and months of often rancorous, on and off negotiations, the NHL and NHLPA hammered out a tentative new collective bargaining agreement aimed at ending the 112-day lockout.
The word on the deal in principle came down shortlly after 5 a.m. from an official in the...
