2018-2019 NHL Thread – Thunderstorm Warning

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Editing the title cleared out the OP. So this is a boring post now.
 
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ipitytheblue said:
what's going on now?

/go canes
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They're meeting at 1pm and there is speculation that the NHLPA will present a counter offer. We may have a better idea after that of whether or not they can get this negotiation moving.
 
This is what happens when you let a team from LA win the Cup. Hockeypocalypse.
 
The players had a conference call that ran over and are now working on their proposal, meeting pushed back to 2:30. There are 18 players in attendance including Crosby, Toews and Eric Staal. Not sure if that is a good or bad sign.

But at least we have this:


Week 1 NHL News (From and Alternate Universe Where the NHL Exists)

ETA: lol at "leafs wont miss playoffs!"
 
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Welp, nevermind. Bettman's comments are super negative. Doesn't like the player proposals and says the offer the NHL made is the best they can make.

Interested to hear Fehr's take since I kind of default to not believing a thing Bettman says.
 
The Twitter machine. I follow a bunch of writers that are camped out at the NHLPA offices. I can give specifics if people want, though its mostly noise.

One reporter said that the NHLPA's offers didn't guarantee that the split would get down to 50%. Assuming they set up a methodology similar to their last offers, I'm guessing the disconnect may be the expected growth rate in revenues (NHL wants to use 5%, players 7%.)

Woops, I take that back, the second option apparently gets owners down to 50% with onlly 5% growth. Option 3 had the players going to 50/50 as long as the owners promise to honor all contracts that were signed by the players, and they would get 13% up front to cover those contacts.

If that's true and Gary Bettman just stormed off like a petulant child, I'm going to believe that the NHL's offer was nothing more than a publicity stunt.

I wish they would just use a luxury tax.
 
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