Hockey ago, and the game is back on the ice for about four months and had a long night. NHL Players' Association in accordance with the season ending their 113-day lock on a previously agreed contract.



 At 5 am Sunday after Jason Chimera of the Washington Capitals awoke to a text message, to keep the unity of last season, in part, on a new labor contract agreed to take approximately four mesyatsevNatsionalnaya Hockey League owners and players hoped for.

113-day lockout ended on Monday with a new 10-year collective bargaining agreement before the end of the 16-hour marathon negotiating session, 4:00 am only NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and the NHL Players Association has opened the 2012-13 season starts, and you Beckenbaugh.

When the NHL owners locked the players on September 16, the third stop of the Bettman era record last season, the league's revenues will rise to $ 3.3 billion, in spite of being started. In general, the Winter Classic and All-Star Game, including 625 regular season games were canceled.

"We are in a process such as this is difficult," executive director of the NHL Donald Fehr said. "It could be longer. Said several times during this period, and then I see someone in front of you to say, when you meet up tomorrow and try to find a way to do it, and keep it until you can not find the way to success" .

Player agent Allan Walsh, an outspoken critic of the NHL on Twitter during the talks, said Sunday morning, Fehr and his staff deserve a deal.