December 19, 2012
League official opens up in recent radio interview

Bill Daly, deputy commissioner of the NHL, has confirmed a tentative drop dead date in mid-January that would see the current season officially come to an end. (REUTERS)

Expect the NHL to pull the plug on the entire 2012-13 NHL season a month from now if there is no resolution to the ugly lockout.

While NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly would not provide an exact "drop dead" date to cancel the entire campaign, he did tell Sportsnet The FAN 590 on Wednesday that “it is fair to say it is sometime in mid-January.”