Lakeshore Advance, 2013-01-09, Page 16Lock -out over
NI Agency
NF \' 1'O1(K - 'I he N111. and
the N111.Players' Association
crossed the finish line with
their own New Pori, ('itt•
Nlarathot) and the 113 day
old lockout is over.
After being holed up in a
Rlanhattan hotel for more
than 16 hours, N111. commis-
sioner (ii11'y ll('ttinall and
NIII.PA executive director
Donald Belo confirmed Sun-
da), morning they've got a
tentative deal on a new
Ott)
0 -Vete' (;1{A.
I'he league would like to
ave 50 gats' schedule start
Ing on )an. 15, but tall. 19 is
more likely given all the work
that has to he done. All the
play will he inter_
conference,
"We have reached on an
agreement on the framework
of a new collective bargain-
ing agreement," said Bett-
ina!) at 5:45 a.m. EST Sun-
day. "The details, of which,
need to he put to paper.
We've got to dot a lot is and
cross a lot of is there's still
a lot of work to he done, but
the basic framework of the
deal has been agreed upon."
Both must now go to their
respective constituents -
Bettinan to the 30 board of
governors and Fehr to the
730 players - to outline the
highlights of the deal that
was reached after the two
sides were sent hack to the
table for the marathon ses-
sion by federal mediator Scot
Beckenbaugh.
"Any process like this, in
the system we have, is diffi
cult and it can he long," said
Kehl. "live said repeatedly
4 'otighout this process, you
tip tomorrow and try to
d a way to do it again. You
keep doing that until you
find it Way to succeed.
"We have the framework
of a deal, we have to do the
legal work and tilt' constittt
ent communication work.
We need to let then) know
details. Hopefully, we're at a
place when' all those things
will proceed fairly rapidly.
We'll get back to business as
usual just as fast as we can."
the two sides got down to
brass tacks on the tnajol
issues throughout the course
of Saturday and the talks
wrapped till in the wee hours
of Sunday morning.
'1101)0(1 ly in 11 very fete
days neol)ie ca1) grt hack 10
watching people who are
skating, not the two of us,"
quipped Fehr.
I hey were ably to close the
hook on:
A salary cap for next sea
sun of $61.3 m11110'11112013
1'1.
'lie terms of contracts will
be seven years and eight
years for your own player.
'1 he variance of those deals
will he in the neighborhood
of;i0-5O ,.
Each team will be allowed
two compliance buyouts in
2013-14.
'Illy issue of pensions and
hots they're funded. player
rep Bon Ilainsey said the
pensions %vere a key to the
deal.
'Isere was a breakthrough
Saturday and that's when
Beckenbaugh decided the
two sides should get together
again, Both had shown a
willingness to budge during
separate mediation meetings
over 24 hours.
Beckenbaugh was a busy
111a1 for nearly 13 hours Fri-
day. Ile made several trips
from the Ni 11 s headquarters
to the union's hotel and he
started that process again
Saturday at 1 I a.m. before
calling the sleeting at 1:15
p.m.
It w8S the first tinge the two
sides wren in the sante room
since talks broke off 'Thurs-
day. The players were upset
the NM, tried to slake
changes to hockey related
revenues at the 11th hour
and didn't taint to return to
the (8611'.
'l hat's tvht'n Beckenbaugh
started his march Friday
between the two sides to try
to entice them to show
enough movement to get a
deal done. '111e players were
relieved the process is over
and they'll get hack to
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Jenn Patterson Is pleased with the news
playing.
"It's good to have a tentative deal,"
sant I lainsey. "It was a battle. Gary said
a month ago it was a tough negotiation.
1 tilt's what it was. Players would rather
not have been stere, but our foals is to
give the fans the most exciting season
Wt' ('1111.
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"The moots has been nervous for
awhile. you want to be playing. You
want to he done with this. 1 don't know
if it was any more or less. 1 think you
('ot11d tell we \Vt'rl. !hiking progress
throughout the day."
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