No trades imminent … Bettman will see an offer from “how the players see the world” … Little fee to cancel Winter Classic

David Pagnotta via twitter: August is usually slow on the trade/roster front.…

NHLPA rejects realignment … No big changes in Buffalo are imminent … Stars could deal Grossman … Roy injured … Huselius to IR

Darren Dreger via twitter: The NHLPA rejects realignment for next season, the…

Morning rumors involving the Blue Jackets, Turris, Gagner, Nabokov, Kaberle and Miller … Owners may be hiding revenue

Bruce Garrioch of the Ottawa Sun: Part of the reason there have…

Morning notes involving Stastny, Semin, Blake, Oilers arena, Hurricanes, Redden, DiPietro, Crawford and Auld

Craig Custance of ESPN: (from his ‘mailbag’) Custance doesn’t think the Avalanche…

Marchand still without deal … NHLPA should be polled on fighting … 2 spots open on Blues roster … Pandolfo gets PTO … No PTO for McCabe and Samsonov … Wild lines

Fluto Shinzawa of the Boston Globe: There’s 12 days until the start…

Starting goalies for tonight … Kovalev back into top 6 … Hurricanes revenue plummets last year … Leighton awaits medical clearance

Chris Vivlamore via twitter: Ondrej Pavelec will start tonight for the Thrashers…

Notes on the new CBA amendment … How it would have affected Kovalchuk

NHLPA: Press Release: NHL, NHLPA Reach Agreement Governing Long-Term Contracts; Kovalchuk Contract…

NHL-NHLPA reach agreement … Kovalchuk deal to be approved

3:45 pm: Chris Stevenson via twitter: “will grandfather in other deals for…

Will it end today? Devils could be punished … Savard’s agent goes off

9:23 am: David Pagnotta via twitter: Rumor that Kovalchuk deal was rejected,…

Kozlov to KHL … 3 NHL caliber goalies in SJ … Fehr wants $7.5 mill through 2012 … More on Staal, Savard and Maltby

Dmitry Chesnokov via twitter: Slava Kozlov will be playing in the KHL…

Kovalchuk’s agent calls KHL … Why Mitchell didn’t sign with the Sharks, Canucks … Fehr in as NHLPA leader?

Dmitry Chesnokov via twitter: According to @plysenkov and their mutual sources, the…

Ilya Kovalchuk is once again a Free Agent

TSN: Arbitrator Richard Bloch sided with the NHL, rejecting Ilya Kovalchuk the…