Court Deals Blow to NHLPA and NHL in Wideman Case

By Jon Heshka, Associate Dean, Faculty of Law, Thompson Rivers University   Jon Heshka   In the curious case of National Hockey League v. National Hockey League Players’ Association where the victim became the assailant and the sanction imposed wound its way through the NHL and the courts, there is finally closure after a New York district court denied the defendant NHL Players’ Association’s motion to dismiss on procedural grounds, granted the defendant’s motion to confirm the