Chart: The NHL lockout timeline

June 29: Bargaining begins.

July 13: Management's initial proposal would reduce players' share of hockey-related revenue from 57 percent to 46 percent, a figure the union later says is actually 43 percent.

Aug. 14: Players make first proposal, calling for lower percentage of revenue for players and increased revenue sharing among teams.

Aug. 15: NHL rejects players' offer.

Aug. 28: Owners offer players 46 percent.

Sept. 12: Players make proposal, which is immediately rejected.

Sept. 13: Owners meet in New York and unanimously endorse decision to lock out players when the 2005-12 collective bargaining agreement expires at the end of Sept. 15.

Sept. 19: NHL cancels preseason schedule through Sept. 30.

Sept. 22: NHL fines Detroit Red Wings undisclosed amount for comments made by senior vice president Jim Devellano in an interview with Island Sports News, which quoted him as saying his solution to end the lockout would be to have the players take 43 percent and the owners get 57 percent of hockey-related revenue.

Sept. 27: NHL cancels remainder of preseason schedule.

Oct. 4: NHL cancels 82 games from Oct. 11-24.

Oct. 16: League makes proposal, offering to split hockey-related revenue 50-50, and says it must be accepted by Oct. 25 to preserve full schedule.

Oct. 19: NHL cancels games through Nov. 1, raising cancellations to 135 (11 percent of season).

Oct. 26: NHL cancels games through Nov. 30, raising total to 326 (26.5 percent).

Nov. 2: NHL cancels Jan. 1 Winter Classic between Toronto and Detroit at Ann Arbor, Mich.

Nov. 21: Union makes proposal offering to split hockey-related revenue 50-50 with $392 million "make-whole provision" for existing contracts that is $182 million more than management's offer. NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman says sides are "far apart."

Nov. 23: NHL cancels games through Dec. 14, raising total to 422 (34 percent of season), and All-Star weekend for Jan. 26-27 at Columbus, Ohio.

Dec. 10: NHL cancels games through Dec. 30, raising total to 526 (43 percent of season).

Dec. 14: A day after negotiations break off, NHL files a class action suit against the union in U.S. District Court in New York, seeking to establish its lockout is legal, and files an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board, claiming the union has bargained in bad faith.

Dec. 20: NHL cancels games through Jan. 14, raising total to 625 (51 percent of season).

Dec. 27: NHL makes new proposal.

Dec. 31: Negotiations resume.

Jan. 6: On the 113th day of the lockout, the sides reach agreement on a 10-year contract that either side can terminate after eight years.