NHL calls players&#39; proposal a &#39;step backwards&#39;
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Toronto, ON (Sports Network) - A lockout for the National Hockey League looks to be inevitable after Thursday&#39;s proposal from the NHLPA did little to narrow the impasse between the owners and players.
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A look at key points in the NHL's proposal on Wednesday to the players' association:
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National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman reiterated the North American league&#39;s position that it won&#39;t consider the players&#39; proposed luxury tax to end their labor impasse.
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Thereâs no crying in baseball - or hockey for that matter â-ut it appears there can be rollbacks in CBA negotiating. Surely the most shocking element of the NHLPAâs proposal to the NHL owners on Thursday
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The NHL players' association offered an immediate 24 percent rollback of salaries Thursday as the centerpiece of a new proposal handed to the league in an effort to end the season-long lockout.
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NEW YORK (CP) - The NHL Players&#39; Association made the biggest move of the 2Â½-month-old lockout Thursday, inviting the NHL back to the negotiating table with the lure of a new proposal.
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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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The NHLPA invited the league to the meeting in a letter sent Thursday to commissioner Gary Bettman. &quot;The letter also confirms that the NHLPA is working on a new proposal which it believes should provide the
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-- Any hope of saving the NHL season hinges on whether the next proposal by the players&#39; association stirs serious negotiating.
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A look at key points in the NHL's proposal Wednesday to the NHL Players' Association:
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE- - The National Hockey League Players&#39; Association extended an olive branch to commissioner Gary Bettman on Thursday, inviting the league back to the negotiating table so it can examine a new proposal from the union.
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The NHL players&#39; association offered an immediate 24 percent rollback of salaries Thursday as the centerpiece of a new proposal handed to the league in an effort to end the season-long lockout.
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In an effort to end the three-month-old NHL lockout, the NHL Players&#39; Association yesterday offered significant and sweeping concessions, highlighted by an immediate 24 percent rollback of
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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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Is the NHL season over because of the league&#39;s rejection of the union offer - and vice versa? But the sands are flowing through big-league hockey&#39;s hourglass.
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The NHL Players&#39; Association will present its new proposal tomorrow in a meeting with commissioner Gary Bettman and the NHL bargaining team.
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NEW YORK (CP) - It took less than an hour for the NHL to reject an NHL Players' Association counter-proposal to end the lockout Tuesday night.