Topic - Gary Bettman

• Red Wings and Maple Leafs to play at Big House

  The Detroit Red Wings and Toronto Maple Leafs will began 2013 by renewing their rivalry at one of North America's most iconic stadiums.

• Columbus to host NHL All-Star game in 2013

  In a season in which very little has gone right for the Blue Jackets, general manager Scott Howson was able to deliver something positive: Columbus has landed the 2013 NHL All-Star game.

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  Columbus to host 2013 NHL All-Star Game

  Washington Capitals public address announcer Wes Johnson wants to broadcast a Stanley Cup Final, a Winter Classic and an All-Star Game. The Winter Classic is coming to the D.C. area soon enough, but Johnson and the Caps will have to wait at the very least until 2014 for an NHL All-Star Game.

• NHL commissioner: Plan B for Coyotes is premature

  Price is not holding up the sale of the Phoenix Coyotes, and it's premature to discuss a Plan B for the franchise's future, according to NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman.

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  Bettman, Fehr discuss NHL CBA, admit negotiations haven't begun yet

  NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and Players' Association executive director Donald Fehr talked a lot Saturday about the upcoming collective bargaining agreement. But both said little about the whole situation.

• NHL discusses player safety at board meeting

  NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman says there is not enough data yet to draw conclusions about the link between concussions and a degenerative brain ailment that has been found in four dead hockey players.

• NHL approves radical realignment plan

  Forced into realignment following Atlanta's move to Winnipeg last summer, the NHL opted for a dramatic change rather than a simple one.

• NHL draft to be staged in Pittsburgh

  Arguably, no NHL franchise has been more positively impacted by the draft than the Pittsburgh Penguins.

• NHL Commissioner Bettman welcomed in Winnipeg

  Hockey fans in Winnipeg seem to have forgiven Gary Bettman.

• Atlanta trades Thrashers for minor league hockey

  The signs are still up outside the IceForum, a rink in suburban Atlanta.

• Shanahan ready to come down hard on NHL head shots

  The most visible man during the NHL preseason has been Brendan Shanahan and not Sidney Crosby, a revealing fact about what holds the hockey world's attention going into the 2011-12 season: hits to the head.

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  Fan throws banana peel at Wayne Simmonds; NHL calls it 'stupid and ignorant'

  The NHL called it "stupid and ignorant." Flyers winger Wayne Simmonds said he's "above this sort of stuff."

• NHL calls banana throwing 'stupid and ignorant'

  Wayne Simmonds should have been able to talk about what a fine first impression he's made on his new team.

• AP Source: Former NHL player Belak hanged himself

  Former NHL player Wade Belak hanged himself, according to a person familiar with the case.

• SNYDER: Fisher needs to make big plays now

  The summer-league showdowns are cute, but they're getting old fast. Nothing against Kevin Durant and Carmelo Anthony - who squared off this week in an all-star gathering that also featured LeBron James - and the other NBA ballers providing Internet highlights in the lockout's wake, but it's time for some plays from Derek Fisher and the negotiating team.

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