Maple Leafs News & Rumors: CBA Issues, Spezza & Mikheyev
As part of my research for this post on the Toronto Maple Leafs, I read Bob McKenzie’s tweets over the past 24 hours. This guy is busy. Related: Maple Leafs…
Collective Bargaining Agreement
NHL Reserve Lists and Rosters Explained
Before the NHL Entry Draft and free agent seasons arrive, let’s take a look at some numbers from the NHL/NHLPA Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA): 90, 50, 23, and 20. Reserve Lists and…
NHL Notebook: Youngsters Interested in CBA, Ottawa Attendance, Devils
Matt Duchene remembers feeling like he was in way over his head. Having just completed his third NHL season and not yet 22 years old, Duchene could see the ominous…
NHLPA Declining CBA Opt-Out a Win for Hockey Fans
The NHL took a major step forward on Monday when the NHL Players’ Association (NHLPA) announced that they had declined to re-open the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). If the NHLPA…
NHL Players Stay with CBA, Labour Peace Set to at Least 2022
National Hockey League players have decided not to opt out of the collective bargaining agreement, guaranteeing labour peace until at least 2022.
The NHLPA announced its decision Monday just before the deadline to trigger its opt-out clause. Not termin…
Mitch Marner Contract Equals Chaos for NHL Teams
The Butterfly Effect theorizes that, if a butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian jungle, a storm strikes France. That effect is what is called, in mathematics, Chaos Theory. Related:…
Quiet Nature of NHL Labour Talks Breeds Cautious Optimism
Representatives from the NHL and NHL Players’ Association have met numerous times over the past eight months and not once in a secret underground bunker or a dark parking garage.
Unlike previous collective bargaining negotiations that spilled out into …
NHL, NHLPA Set to Meet Again to Talk CBA Extension
CHICAGO — The NHL and NHL Players’ Association will meet again Friday in New York to continue collective bargaining negotiations.
Players have until Sept. 15 to decide whether to terminate the current collective bargaining agreement effective a year fr…
NHLPA Executive Board Meets, Still Deliberating on CBA
NHL players have yet to decide whether to terminate the current collective bargaining agreement with less than two weeks before the deadline to do so.
Roughly 50 players met Wednesday night in Chicago to get an update on talks with the league, which ex…
NHL Opts Not to Re-open Collective Bargaining Agreement
NEW YORK — The NHL has announced it will not exercise its option to re-open the current collective bargaining agreement early.
The league had the right to re-open the CBA until Sunday. It advised the NHL Players’ Association of its decision on Friday.
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Rebooting World Cup of Hockey to be Part of NHL Labour Talks
VANCOUVER — With labour talks having already begun on an informal basis, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and union chief Don Fehr are in favour of rebooting the World Cup of Hockey tournament and holding it every four years.
The stumbling block to laying…
Escrow Tops NHL Players’ List of Concerns Ahead of CBA Talks
Jonathan Toews says he just wants his contract to be worth what it says on paper.
Right now, it’s not that simple.
Under terms of the collective bargaining agreement, NHL owners and players divide hockey-related revenue 50/50, and if player salaries ex…