NHL Offers New Proposal
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In perhaps the last effort to head off a lost season, the NHL makes a new offer to the players' association on Wednesday.
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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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The one-time salary rollback was part of a new proposal made by the Players&#39; Association in Toronto, at the first collective bargaining session since the NHL locked out the players on September 15.
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The National Hockey League brain trust has long maintained that in order to forge a new collective bargaining agreement with the NHL Players Association, it would need cost certainty -- which means teams' spending for players' salaries must be tied to revenues. In a nutshell, the hard line has been no cap, no hockey season in 2004-05.
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Bob Goodenow, executive director of the NHL Players Association, created a lot of suspense when he submitted a dramatic contract proposal to the league last week.
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Like his colleagues, Penguins winger Mark Recchi figured the NHL Players&#39; Association made a fairly dramatic proposal last Thursday.
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There just might be some hope for the hockey season. While the NHL Players Association has been denying it is not currently preparing a new proposal designed to at least reopen talks with the league, the rumor won't go away.
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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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Talks to seek a settlement of the lockout resumed Thursday with a report from a Canadian television network that the league would present a new proposal.
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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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Talks will resume next Thursday between the National Hockey League and the Players&#39; Association (NHLPA) in an attempt to end the existing lockout and salvage 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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The National Hockey League Players&#39; Association has invited the NHL to the bargaining table next week in Toronto in order to present a new proposal and end an almost three-month stalemate in negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement.
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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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The NHL Players&#39; Association is offering to cut player salaries by 24 per cent in a bid to end the lockout, but is not offering the salary cap the league has said it wants.
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The NHL Players&#39; Association handed the NHL a strong proposal Thursday it believes can not only salvage the season but more importantly address all of the league&#39;s economic issues.
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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.