The assurance from the actual participants was there as the negotiating teams of the NHL and NHL Players’ Association took the seats for boarding collective bargaining train.

With both Tuesday  failing to produce any fruitful result, a memo was sent on Wednesday to the owners by the NHL hockey commissioner Gary Bettman indicating to make traction on Thursday, else there would be burst up.

This had made good vibrations and after about 20 minutes prolonged discussions in Manhattan, the two sides decided to sit across on Friday for a fourth successive day keeping the train still on track.

This broke all the previous NHL hockey lockout 2012 records.

The players put forward a new concept on sharing of revenues on Wednesday that showed the benefit of bigger market teams helping the financially-struggling franchises thus helping them to use the extra profit for improving their products and to increase the revenues.

The players also teased the honoring contracts issue which the owners started last month. The NHLPA also expressed eagerness to a continuous descent from 57-42 percent hockey-related revenues share to 50-50 split by the new agreement’s third year.

Instead of rejecting the NHLPA ideas, on Thursday the league made a counter-proposal. Thus some actual negotiations are being procured this week.

With the November schedule cancellation, the silent treatment over the two weeks and also the Winter Classic, both the NHL and the NHLPA doesn’t want to see themselves as the bad guys. So they will have further discussions this Friday and also the weekend.

“I think every passing day is very critical for us.” Bettman said.

Also no pointing at one another was there throughout the media statements or at the sessions with the reporters.

Despite of all the time spent on talking, the most troubling news was that the locomotive hasn’t moved from this point.

The office of Proskauer-Rose law firm which is in Manhattan, across the road from New York Times building, has become the meeting place of the sides for the last three days. The NBA and NFL latest labor disputes were employed at this Proskauer-Rose firm. The main negotiators of NHLPA were executive director Donald Fehr with his brother Steve and Bettman and NHL deputy Commissioner Bill Daly. Besides them, players Chris Campolli, Mathieu Darche, Ron Hainsey, Johan Hedberg, Manny Malhotra, David Bakes and Kevin Westgarth also participated.

NHL was represented by Murray Edward, co-owner of Calgary Flames; Craig Leipoid, Minnesota wild owner.

So the questions about the season’s starting, number of games to be played can soon be answered with the two sides having their meeting done, and doing the necessary talking.

Washington Capitals goalie Michal Neuvirth thought that he might have been traded by seeing all the messages and phone calls on his phone.

Neuvirth said that “It was crazy may be just for one second”.

Neuvirth gave an interview to Czech media which was translated to English that he has seemingly didn’t have to say any complimentary things about his teammates specially star Alexander Ovechkin and Braden Holtby.

Neuvirth also told to capitals website in a video clip on Friday that his comments was not portrayed correctly.

Neuvirth said that “He just want to say that there is some misunderstanding and they have changed his speech’s meaning a lot”. He also said that “He was just talking with the boys in a good way and they didn’t translate in the way they wanted. And he feels that they have nothing to write about it”.

A stateside fan blog CSN Washington translated Neuvirth’s interview with isportz that “Ovechkin is not that what he wanted to be and Holtby is the weakest competition he ever faced with the Capitals”.

The Washington Times also included a quote “He thinks that Ovi will stop falling and he will try to go back on top instead of falling”.

Neuvirth told in the video that “He talked to the Ovechkin and Holtby and Holtby didn’t believe this for a second because he knows Neuvirth since last four years and he is not like that. That made Neuvirth very happy”.

He also said that “He felt very bad when he saw the interview in English because it was also sound like him at all”.

Neuvirth got calls from their teammates in NHL Hockey and giving him support.

Neuvirth told to the interviewer Mike Vogel that “The boys called him and they believe him. And they know what they wrote that was not what he meant to say. This makes him very happy that the boys believe him”.

Neuvirth also said that he was unaware of this controversy, until this week his remarks were also caused and it becomes meaningful when he read about them on internet”.

He said that “He could not believe that and he was in a great shock. He felt very about this thing; he had to talk with Ovechkin and Holtby about this and had to explain them that what they saw it was not actually happened”.

Neuvirth said that he doesn’t expect any hard feelings from the Capitals training camp. He and Holtby are expected to play and compete in the same goaltender job in NHL Hockey.

Lastly he said that “It is getting back to normal stage and he is glad about that and he doesn’t want to talk about it anymore”.