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CrusaderPi wrote on Tue, 12 May 2020 15:10

Adam wrote on Tue, 12 May 2020 14:36

CrusaderPi wrote on Mon, 11 May 2020 17:12

Adam wrote on Mon, 11 May 2020 15:11

CrusaderPi wrote on Mon, 11 May 2020 14:06

Ufa, the Edmonton of Russia.

I won't remember this name played for the Oilers in 3 years.


It'll be interesting to see how these kind of signings work if the NHL returns to action in late summer...


The NHL - NHLPA Collective Agreement is an absolute mess. The only CBA, I can think of, that's worse is Canada Post's. You can have a pocket dictionary, but you could never make a pocket Post CBA. It's stoopid with a capital K. To have labour peace the company and union absolutely NEEDS flexibility to work through issues. /soapbox

The standard player contract seems to end on the later of June 15th or 48 hours after the the Cup is awarded, but there is a clause that allows the season to be ended by formal cancellation of the season (or league) which would end this year of the contract. I'm not sure there's a way to hold players in limbo (meaning: keeping them in the 2019-20 year of the contract) by extending the season beyond June without a massively complicated waiver being issued by the association.


There would have to be an agreement by the Players' Association to extend all contracts. Obviously the carrot is the escrowed money because right now the players are all forfeiting a HUGE amount of their salary - maybe as much as 25%. But for an individual player who wasn't making that much, and who may not get much benefit from coming back...I could see some people stepping away, especially in the case of someone like Granlund where he doesn't intend to play in the NHL next year.

If the players agree to comeback to finish the season, and that's a big if, I don't think it saves them any money in escrow this or the cap for next year. The gate revenue for the last ~12 games is already lost, playoffs are probably a net expense now because they won't get a gate, and a time extension in this season might cause a drop in revenue for 2020-21 if anything in next season gets delayed or canceled.

The best solution might be an august training camp, a compressed 6 week playoff in September, followed by a ~5 day player trade / transfer / free agent period, and right into the 2020-21 season. But holy heck is that complicated to pull off... even if wave 2 doesn't come. If I'm a union person though I need a lot of concessions to guard against a salary cap drop, playoff injuries, lack of time to make summer deals, and a myriad of other problems otherwise it's probably better for the players to cancel 2019-20, which is probably the best solution for the owners and league too.

Gate revenue can’t be lost yet. According to ticketmaster my March 23rd Tampa tickets are still valid.



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