Still no sign of agreement between NHL officials and NHLPA as lockout goes into its fifth week
The National Hockey League (NHL) lockout which began on 15th September after the ending of previous Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), is now going into its fifth week but still there are no signs of agreement between the NHL officials and
NHL Players’ Association.
It does not appear if they are going to reach an agreement soon and with every second passing, there are fears of this lockout getting longer and longer. One thing that hockey fans would never want is a lockout for the whole season, like it happened before
in 2004-2005.
The intent is not shown by both the parties and they are not doing like the way people are expecting them to do. Both parties are not meeting like they should and do not look to be as keen as the fans are to see the ending of lockout and beginning of the
new season.
NHL and NHLPA appear to be stubborn and not reach an agreement as both of them do not want to surrender from their proposals. Both of them are looking at each other for the compromise but none of them appear to do so.
Now NHL officials are not making any offer and when they were asked by the CNSPhilly.com via an email that why are they taking so long in making the offer and not progressing, their deputy Commissioner Bill Daly showed the concern that NHLPA would not accept
their offer and would prolong it further. Daly said,
“Just the concern that the union will do what its done with our last two offers -- pocket them and ask for more -- which could only lengthen the process, not shorten it”.
“That doesn't mean we plan to take the sticks and puck and go home until the PA is ready to engage.
“We will continue to analyze the situation every day and make decisions that we think are most likely to result in an agreement being reached as soon as possible.”
The NHLPA chief Steve Fehr on the other hand believes that there is no need of such formalities as they already know what their counterparts want and the counterparts know that as well.
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