Lockout Reported Over! 6 year deal

[ranold26]

Stan Fischler breaking the news.
http://www.msgnetwork.com/content_n...ticle&sports=ice-hockey&team=other&league=nhl

Sportsnet reporting 6 year deal
http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/arti...713_090348_2992

LA Times has some details
http://www.insidebayarea.com/portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?article=2844370

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~ CBA is a six year deal
~ Players have option after year four, to renegotiate.
~ Do not expected a press conference, just press releases. Press conference depending on ratification at weeks end. Press conference to be on July 21st.
~ Bob McKenzie confirms 54 percent, payroll % at escrow, Cap floor at 21.5m, ceiling at 39m. Player can make 20% team max. 450k sal minimum PER player. 10:30am eastern Sportscenter.
~ Draft lottery could be held as early as next week, after ratification.
~ Players to vote on deal in Toronto and on NHLPA website http://www.nhlpasource.com/.
~ McKenzie says 12 noon NHLPA conference call is with team reps. Could be for ratification details. Vote could be in Toronto for local players, website for those not in Toronto. More details coming. 11:30am Sportscenter
~ Sidney Crosby has been told to be ready to be in Toronto for a draft lottery and CBA press conference for next Thursday[July 21st]. Per Bob McKenzie.
~ Entry draft to be held in Ottawa on Saturday, July 30th. Per Sportsnet/Fan590.
~ Ted Saskin confirms CBA deal to 640am Toronto. Conference now at 12noon eastern with players.
~Players meeting scheduled Tuesday[July 19th] thru Thursday[July 21st] for ratification voting.
~ NHL and NHLPA have released a presser regarding a tentative CBA agreement, depending on ratification. http://nhlpa.com/Content/Feature.asp?contentId=3473
http://www.nhl.com/news/2005/07/230330.html
~ Russ Conway from the Eagle Tribune reports on mojoradio that players after 7 years of service will become UFAs. Mentions Thornton and Iginla. Bob McKenzie has addressed this issue by saying it doesnt kick in until 2007. So Joe and Iginla are not UFAs until 2007.
~ Lottery Draft will be weighted. Every team will get atleast 1 ball. Per Bob McKenzie.
~ 2003 Unsigned Draftees[Carter/Richards etc] will have a window to sign with their clubs. Subjected to old CBA Rookie maximum minus 24%. With a 30% max signing bonus. Per Bob McKenzie.

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[bcrt2000]

http://www.msgnetwork.com/content_n...ticle&sports=ice-hockey&team=other&league=nhl

ah i posted this in the other thread, but i think you beat me to it

 

[habsrock44]

It's over

Thank the Lord.

 

[ranold26]

http://www.msgnetwork.com/index.jsp

Its on the frontpage now too.

 

[chiavsfan]

Ahh yes...Stan has the old "It's done but there is still work to do" article. The contradiction is excitingly....boring

 

[Tuggy]

I will believe it when Bettman and the NHL actually say it's over. But, I do think that the only reason they met throughout the night was because they were extremely close.

 

[bcrt2000]

I think they will probably make an announcement tomorrow regardless-- they can only go on so long finding loop holes that i think they've probably said by thursday whats done is done

 

[Sixty Six]

i have never been a its not true till TSN says so guy, until now... i'll wait till more than one source has it

 

[RangerBoy]

I will believe it when Bettman and the NHL actually say it's over. But, I do think that the only reason they met throughout the night was because they were extremely close.

Bill Daly is the one who probably told Stan

 

[hockey_nut]

stan fischler's been around more than everyone working at tsn combined, lol

if he says the agreement is done, then it's done... doesn't mean it's finalized though, b/c it has to have a final once-over by the lawyers and even tsn said that'll take at least a day...

bottomline, if fischler says the agreement (regarding what's written in the contract) has been finished... we should have an announcement in the coming days

 

[e-e]

i need confirmation for the bob...until that i'll stay calm

 

[Fish on The Sand]

I get the impression that this is a media outlet blatantly lying and just trying to be the first to report it.

 

[London Knights]

The fact that Stan is the only one reporting this makes me question how done this is. Until someone else breaks the story too it goes down as "I said it first" jumping the gun in my books.

 

[Dogbert*]

Amendment 482, Fig. XLI: If the purple monkeys continue to throw feces at one another, the agreement will be declared running scared.

Fig. XLII: ee ah oh ee ah oh ee ah oh

Fig. XLIII: THESE aren't my crayons!

 

[Stammer Time*]

i need confirmation for the bob...until that i'll stay calm

Yep.

 

[Fish on The Sand]

tsn changed their story from deal not done yet, deal to be done today.

 

[kaherdin]

I'm calm, I'm calm......Damn I hope its true.......

 

[ranold26]

TSN now reporting it will be done today. ITS OVAHHHHHHHHHH!

 

[Stammer Time*]

The NHL's long awaited new CBA should be completed today, sources close to the talks told TSN Wednesday.

tsn.ca

 

[Tiki]

Sorry, I fell asleep.... Is it August already?

 

[Fish on The Sand]

wow, does this make me first to report it?

 

[hockey_nut]

wow, does this make me first to report it?

makes stan fischler the first, lol...

 

[Fish on The Sand]

well, looks like its time for some early morning burritos.

 

[Tuggy]

wow, does this make me first to report it?

Or maybe the person whose thread you posted in

 

[Mr.Brownov*]

OMG this is better than sex!!!