NHL players offer 24 percent salary rollback in new proposal
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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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The dynamic 24 percent payroll rollback proposed by the NHL Players Association last week was simply another gambit in the NHL&#39;s labor dispute.
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Man, is it quiet. With just over two weeks to go before the NHL trade deadline, general managers are moving little more than office furniture (tossing desk chairs in frustration?), further underscoring that the new collective bargaining agreement has turned the building of roster chemistry into strictly a midsummer exercise around free agency.
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A look at key points in the NHL's proposal Wednesday to the NHL Players' Association:
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The National Hockey League appeared to  be one day away from canceling its season due to a labor  dispute after owners rejected a salary cap proposal from  locked-out players.
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The beauty of the NHL salary cap is that every storm can be weathered. No matter how crazy things look, no matter how perplexing or troublesome or outright wacky, no team can assemble a roster that pays more than $44 million (up from $39 million last season) to the rank and file.
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TORONTO - The NHL and the playersâ association appeared headed toward a lockout when talks broke off Thursday after the unionâs first new proposal in nearly a year.
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Headlined by a 24 percent slash in all existing salaries, the National Hockey League Players&#39; Association upped the pressure on the league with a massive collective-bargaining proposal and
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The N.H.L. appears poised to reject a proposal made by the players union, which included a 24 percent reduction in pay and other concessions but not a hard salary cap.
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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 NHL players' association agrees to accept a salary cap, but contract talks break down early Tuesday over the amount that teams would pay.
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Toronto, ON (Sports Network) - The National Hockey League will reject last week&#39;s National Hockey League Players&#39; Association proposal on Tuesday, according to The Sports Network of Canada.
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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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Hopes for an NHL season were left  hanging by a thread Thursday as players presented a proposal  that included a massive 24 percent rollback in salaries but did  not address owners' main demand for cost certainty.
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The NHL accepted an invitation from the players' association on Thursday to return to the negotiating table in an effort to end the lockout that began nearly three months ago.
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NHL players are about to receive their first lockout stipends, amounts which will work out to roughly 3.6 per cent of the average NHL salary, according to the Canadian Press.
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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.