Report: NHL Sides Trade Proposals

NEW YORK — It isn’t known what progress — if any — has been made in the second day of marathon talks in the NHL labor dispute, but owners and players surely sense that time is working against them.

Negotiations resumed Wednesday and stretched deep into the night again, this time in fits and starts, as the league and the players’ association searched for a deal to save the hockey season.

It wasn’t until midnight Tuesday that talks wrapped up, and all signs indicated Wednesday’s discussions could go as late or later. Very little information leaked out of the meeting room, but it is believed that each side submitted proposals to the other and spent lots of time apart discussing what was offered.

Owners often retreated to their own room one floor above the location of the bargaining session and then took the elevator back down to get talks going again. Some of the together sessions lasted as short as 15 minutes.

RED WINGS: The Michigan Senate approved legislation Wednesday to help team owner Mike Ilitch finance a Downtown Detroit project that would include a new home for the Red Wings.