Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly optimistic of Negotiations this Week -NHL Update
It is has been nearly two weeks since the National Hockey League (NHL) and Players’ Association have last held negotiations on a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA), but it seems like Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly is hopeful for some talks to be scheduled
later on this week.
There is no telling how long the current deadlock might last and the players that are still residing in North America, just hope that it will not interfere with the regular season, which is scheduled to start later on in October.
With the preseason already cancelled, the regular season is also under serious threat of facing the same fate along with the Winter Classic, which the NHL has already termed to have set November as the deadline to decide what to do with it.
"We're 100 percent focused on not missing any regular-season games and hopefully we can achieve that objective," Daly said, from Toronto after meeting with Union representation. "Obviously, we've got to talk before you can get a deal, so I think it's important
to get the talks going again. But you also have to have something to say. I think it's fair to say we feel like we need to hear from the Players' Association in a meaningful way because I don't think that they've really moved off their initial proposal, which
was made more than a month ago now."
Under the radar, both sides have been maintaining some sort of contact, which is why they are hopeful of sitting down and getting adjustments down later on this week, but there is no surety at the moment as all talks at the moment are just assumptions of
what might be happening.
Many experts have termed this lockout to be the most serious in NHL history and much more significant than the 2004-2005 one, in which the league was shutout for a full regular season.
Updates should be expected in the upcoming days as the league looks forward to sitting down with the labour union and discussing the options they have laid out on the table without going into another deadlock between the two stakeholders.
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