The league always planned for negotiations to start properly in the middle of October. Around September 15 they made a tiny budge to give the appearance that they were trying to avoid the lockout, but it’s clear that this was not a serious offer. They started low, making it clear that the NHL expected major concessions out of this negotiation (and allowing them to argue that they have moved a tremendous amount over time at a future date).
Looking back over that timeline, it is not hard to see what the league’s strategy was. Additionally, to increase pressure on the NHLPA the league has started canceling games left and right, wiping out the schedule up to November 30. The league also posts the offer online for public review.Īt present: The NHL initially refused to move from its October 16 proposal, and now has withdrawn it. Likely not coincidentally, this offer comes at more or less the same time as the players would typically receive their first paychecks of the season.
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According to the league, this offer is timed so as to allow a full 82-game season.
It also features a “make whole” provision, whereby players would be paid in full for current contracts by taking a reduced share in future years. October 16, 2012: The NHL proposes a new offer, one that sees the player’s share of HRR drop to 50 percent and then stay there. This offer was timed to coincide with the expiration of the old CBA on September 15. Bettman warns that any disruption – including of preseason games – could lead to this offer being pulled, due to worsening financial conditions for teams. September 12, 2012: The NHL makes a time-sensitive offer, giving the NHLPA 24 hours to accept a deal modeled on their initial proposal, but with 46 percent rather than 43 percent as the final portion of HRR designated for the players. On the primary issue – percentage of HRR – they suggest that year four of the NHLPA’s deal be set at 46 percent. It was obvious at the time that the league’s end game was a 50/50 split of hockey-related revenue, and unsurprisingly that’s where they went in subsequent offers.Īugust 28, 2012: The NHL counters the union’s first proposal (more on that shortly).
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The league proposed dropping the players’ share of hockey-related revenue (HRR) from 57 percent to 43 percent (this total includes the impact of redefining HRR), and instituting a series of restrictive measures – longer entry-level deals, a longer period of restricted free agency, eliminating signing bonuses, etc. This is the one that immediately set the players’ teeth on edge. The following is the timeline of their offers to the union. Watching what has transpired to date in the collective bargaining process, it’s easy to see that. I know I have certainly been guilty of it at times over this process, focusing too much on what I want to see (hockey) and too little on what the two parties actually at the table want.įortunately for their constituents, and unfortunately for everyone else, Donald Fehr and Gary Bettman haven’t forgotten their overarching goal for so much as a moment. Unfortunately, a side effect of that frustration is that it’s easy to miss the big picture.
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