NEW YORK -- Commissioner Gary Bettman said the NHL will open collective bargaining agreement talks with the players at the start of 2025 and is optimistic about getting a deal done. The current CBA expires Sept. 15, 2026. Bettman informed the league's board of governors about opening negotia...
But one thing that stands out in the NHL is its collective bargaining agreement. The NHL has a hard cap at both the league and team level without some of the loopholes found in other leagues. The NHL cap was introduced in 2005 and has transformed the profit profile of owning a team, ...
IRA PODELL, AP Sports Writer
A player who has been claimed in two prior Entry Drafts; A player who previously played in the League and became a free agent pursuant to the Collective Bargaining Agreement; A plyer age 21 or older who had played hockey for at least one season in North America when he was age 18, 19...
The rules governing trades are outlined in the NHL/NHLPA Collective Bargaining Agreement. The NHL Trade Deadline The NHL's trade deadline generally means a lot of movement among NHL hockey players. The NHL trade deadline is a much-anticipated event among hockey teams, as teams are no longer...
Under the contract between the NHL and the NHLPA, either party can request, in writing, formal negotiations on the terms of a new collective bargaining agreement to begin 120 days before the contract expires (i.e., May 18, 2004). The parties may choose to begin negotiating before that, bu...
Owners and players agreed to a long-term extension of the collective bargaining agreement before the 2019-20 season resumed, setting the table for financial ramifications of the pandemic. They agreed recently to stick to that deal, which includes players deferring 10% of salaries, a cap on mone...
Dec. 20-27: NHL holiday roster freeze Per the NHL’s collective bargaining agreement, “for all players on an NHL active roster, injured reserve, or with non-roster and injured non-roster status as of 11:59 p.m. (local time) Dec. 19, a roster freeze shall...
LTIR一直是一个非常神秘的东西,很难找到详细的说明,就连包含了全联盟几乎内容的劳资协议CBA(Collective Bargaining Agreement)中关于LTIR的内容也仅仅是寥寥几笔。简单的来说,这个长期伤病名单并没有大家想象的那么长期,只要一个球员缺席10场NHL比赛或者24天的NHL赛季,这个球员就可以被球队放入LTIR名单中去。虽然工资帽...
Even after the NHL and players agreed to Olympic participation as part of a long-term extension of the collective bargaining agreement last summer, the coronavirus pandemic and related costs threatened to shelve that possibility. Instead, the sides were able to figure it out, allowing fo...