NHL shares schedule drafts with NHLPA - TSN

According to TSN Senior Hockey Reporter Frank Seravalli and TSN Hockey Insider Pierre LeBrun, the NHL shared draft schedules with the NHLPA on Thursday, including 52-game and 56-game season outlines.

Seravalli reports the schedules were all based on a Jan. 1 start date, but the two sides have discussed pushing that date back until later in the month. LeBrun adds that a Jan. 15 start is specifically being discussed and both sides would prefer the 56-game plan with the Stanley Cup awarded in early July, but nothing has been finalized and economic issues between both sides remain.

A Jan. 15 start is now being discussed, source says, really no choice given that Jan 1 doesn’t seem realistic at this point. Economic issues still unresolved but both sides keep talking about other issues around season planning. As Frank says below, some positive vibes https://t.co/0uMf6FViG2

— Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) December 4, 2020

NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said Wednesday at a virtual sports conference that the league’s targeted Jan. 1 start date remained “a work in progress influenced largely by what we’re hearing from medical experts.”

The NHL has requested players defer additional salary for the 2021 season, though Bettman insisted Wednesday that the NHL is “not seeking to renegotiate” the six-year Collective Bargaining Agreement extension that was unanimously ratified by owners in July.

“We’re not actually having negotiations and we’re not seeking to renegotiate,” Bettman said. “We made a number of assumptions collectively over the summer, most of which are not applicable anymore.

“Whatever the revenues are, the players only get 50 per cent. And if we overpay them and they don’t pay us back in the short term, they have to pay us back over time. There will be stresses on the system, and we’ve had discussions about what those stresses are, and how they might be dealt with. But we’re not trying to say ‘You must do X, Y and Z.’ We’re trying to look for ways to continue to work together.”

TSN Senior Correspondent Rick Westhead wrote Thursday that the NHLPA was weighing their legal options for if NHL cancels the 2020-21 season.

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2020-12-04 12:59:36Z
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