So much optimism...
Remember what happened last time? Things got blown apart so quickly...
And besides this is really a big blow to a lot of teams outside of NHL. Players leaving their Lockout clubs thinking of the Lockout ending. But all the leagues around the world are in midseason or further and some may even lose 3-4 players at the same time, thats really unfair.!
They should have cancelled the season about a month ago!
They should have set a drop dead date to cancel the season much earlier. Would have sped the process.
You know it's great news if you get a joint press release that begins with NEW YORK/TORONTO.
What does Toronto have to do with anything? All the principals are in NY right now.
And 'if' it gets done tonight it'll be more like 4 AM in the morning, I ain't staying up for that. The most I'm staying up for is to hear about the DOI filing, probably. Even if, like someone said they could announce a deal in time for US-Canada in the WJC
7 year contracts
15% variance
64M 2013-2014 cap
10 year CBA
My predictions
They've agreed on the 6-7 NHL model(6 for UFA, 7 for own resigns)
variance is still a small difference
cap is still a small difference
CBA term agreed on.
They should have set a drop dead date to cancel the season much earlier. Would have sped the process.
Nobody would have believed a drop dead date earlier than now...not when there's already precedent for a 48-game season starting in mid-January. Someone on another board still thinks THIS is a phony deadline (that person is ridiculously pro-PA and thinks the owners lie about everything though)
It is just maddening that the PA could not have come up with a proposal like this say....four months ago. This framework has been around since basically the beginning.
Absolutely, no doubt. All the games that Fehr played and continues to play have all been for nothing. At the end of the day there will still be a contract cap around 5-6yrs with variance around 10%-15%. The same for the rest of the details. They will all fall in and/or around what the NHL has been presenting since October... The money the players lost during this horror is still gone forever. This has been a complete waste of time and nothing will be gained from this. Of course the players will spew their rhetoric in the media saying they won on a lot of their key issues but the bottom line is that the players were always going to lose these negotiations. They should have accepted that and gotten a deal done back in the fall when they all could have made more millions. What a complete joke this has been from the PA.
I'm really pissed off that it took them until January to start actually negotiating. A 52 game season would be pretty awesome though. That's a lot of hockey in a little amount of time
A pretty bold opening statement of an article (via Google translate):
Renaud Lavoie
Quote:
Owners and players have the same goal now: they absolutely want to reach an agreement before midnight tonight, so that the executive committee of the NHLPA decides to dissolve the union denial
People here really need to learn how to link the tweets. You should be posting the URL of the tweet itself, not of the profile of the user who posted it.
And I would if I could get Twitter on my work pc!!!
