By Raleigh McPherson
NEW YORK (TheSportsNext) July 18, 2012: The National Hockey League and the NHL Players Association are all set to restart labor talks at the League offices in New York with total revenue of the league being the focal point.
Expectedly, the NHL players want their share in the league’s total revenues but the NHL owners are not on the same page which puts future of the NHL season in jeopardy.
The NHLPA had conducted talks with the NHL owners last Friday to fetch a new collective bargaining agreement before the existing one reaches expiration on September 15, 2012.
As per the local media reports published recently, the NHL owners had offered the hockey players to get their revenues slashed to 46 percent from 57 percent while the players were told that they won’t become unrestricted free agents before a break of 10 years and their contracts were limited to five years. The steps were put forward by the NHL owners after Zach Parise and his fellow blue-chip free agent Ryan Suter settled for an identical 13-year contracts worth $98 million with the Minnesota Wild.
The two sides have been conducting meetings since June 29, 2012 in a bid to secure a new bargaining agreement and the Wednesday’s meeting will have NHLPA Executive Director Donald Fehr and NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly.
Gary Bettman, NHL commissioner, who was part of the Friday’s meeting told reporters earlier this week, "We've got a lot of work to do in a relatively short period of time. The optimum would be to get a deal done as soon as you could”.
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