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12-10-2004, 09:45 PM
TORONTO - The NHL Players' Association offered an immediate 24 percent rollback of salaries Thursday as the centerpiece of a new proposal for a collective bargaining agreement designed to end the season-long lockout.
"The CBA that we proposed to the league will immediately reduce the value of every current player contract," NHLPA executive director Bob Goodenow said. "It will immediately set a dramatically lower base in the negotiation of new contracts."
The first new proposal since Sept. 9 in the stalled labor talks also included a more dramatic luxury tax on payrolls, a reduced cap on entry-level salaries and changes in the rules governing qualifying offers that clubs must make to retain a player's rights -- all concessions designed to act as a drag on salaries.
Now we're getting somewhere!
"The CBA that we proposed to the league will immediately reduce the value of every current player contract," NHLPA executive director Bob Goodenow said. "It will immediately set a dramatically lower base in the negotiation of new contracts."
The first new proposal since Sept. 9 in the stalled labor talks also included a more dramatic luxury tax on payrolls, a reduced cap on entry-level salaries and changes in the rules governing qualifying offers that clubs must make to retain a player's rights -- all concessions designed to act as a drag on salaries.
Now we're getting somewhere!