NHL Players Propose a 24 Percent Solution
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Seeking to end the lockout that threatens this season, the National Hockey League Players Association offered an immediate pay reduction of 24 percent Thursday and other concessions
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Any hope of salvaging part of the NHL season likely was shattered last night when talks between the league and the players' association broke off in New York after four hours following the NHL's presentation of a proposal that contained a salary cap.
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If certain people show up, today&#39;s meeting of NHL Players&#39; Association executives and members in Toronto could turn into a passionate debate between the union&#39;s haves and have-nots.
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The NHL and NHL Players Association will meet next week to review a proposal being prepared by the players, in a bid to end the lockout that has wiped out the first two months of the season.
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As promised, the NHL Players Association on Thursday delivered its strongest proposal to end the lockout. In a move even NHLPA executive director Bob Goodenow admitted
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Bruins owner Jeremy Jacobs has been active in trying to forge a new collective bargaining agreement with the National Hockey League Players Association. Jacobs believes hockey is sick and he agrees with commissioner Gary Bettman that there is a desperate need to retool the system.
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TORONTO -- The National Hockey League and the NHL Players Association, only some three weeks from entering a potentially disastrous lockout, will sign a new collective bargaining agreement that will be a hybrid form of the CBAs that govern Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, and the highly prosperous National Football League.
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Calling it &quot;a time for bold steps,&quot; NHL Players Association executive director Bob Goodenow yesterday made a painstakingly detailed and aggressive proposal to the NHL in Toronto in an attempt to end the three-month league lockout.
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âLast week, the Players made a major proposal to reach a negotiated deal with the League. We had proposed an immediate 24% rollback on all existing contracts, other concessions in favour of the Owners and real revenue-sharing.
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With nothing to lose but the rest of the hockey season, Vancouver Canuck Trevor Linden thought his idea was worth a shot: Get together a small group of representatives from NHL management and the players' union and try to find some middle ground that would jump-start talks toward ending the 125-day lockout. Today, six people -- three from each side ...
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The union&#39;s proposal to end the lockout, made Thursday at the league&#39;s Canadian headquarters, calls for a tax that would penalize -- and perhaps deter -- high-end payrolls.
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NHL players emerged Tuesday from a four-hour meeting united behind union leadership in the nearly 7-week-old lockout. &quot;(Commissioner Gary Bettman) wants to
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Toronto, ON (Sports Network) - NHL commissioner Gary Bettman acknowledged Thursday that one segment of the latest proposal from the players&#39; union was significant, but stressed that much more lies ahead in solving the league&#39;s fiscal problems.
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The locked-out National Hockey League players union offered to cut salaries by 24 percent and place a tax of up to 60 percent on high-end payrolls in the first talks with management in three months.
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One side refuses to bend. The other vows not to break. Common ground cannot be found. And time is ticking away. Optimism that the NHL season could be saved with a new round
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Seventy-five NHL players met with union leaders Tuesday to get an update on a lockout that shows no sign of ending. Among those players was Montreal&#39;s Pierre Dagenais, who has said he would be willing to disobey
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NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman says the players&#39; association presented a constructive proposal Thursday that the league would respond to next week.