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[LadyStanley]

TSNRyanRishaug 5:45pm via Twitter for iPad A huge amount of food was just seen delivered into NHL offices. Looks like another long night ahead.

 

[LadyStanley]

http://www.thestar.com/sports/hocke...n-t-be-easy-to-take-pride-in-being-an-nhl-fan

Hard to take pride in being NHL fan?

 

[LadyStanley]

EricOnSportsLaw 7:10pm via Twitter for BlackBerry® Mediator mediating NHL dispute for 12 hours - what do I make it? I like it - suggests progress and some movement


helenenothelen 6:59pm via Web
apparently, mediator Scot Beckenbaugh is still mediating btween NHL and NHLPA. man deserves sainthood.


drosennhl 7:02pm via TweetDeck
Mediation is ongoing in the CBA process and there is no indication of if it will lead to a big-group, face-to-face negotiating session.


drosennhl 7:03pm via TweetDeck
It still remains a possibility for the two sides to get together tonight if mediation leads in that direction.

 

[LadyStanley]

helenenothelen 7:13pm via Web
RT@CandyThomson1 on mediator Beckenbaugh: Hope he does for the NHL what he did for the East Coast longshoremen's impasse

 

[LadyStanley]

GlobeKPD 7:25pm via Twitter for iPhone Hilarious, mediator dashing 'tween respective parties of NHL, PA in same city. Wanted: adults.


Panger40 7:28pm via Twitter for iPad
I've had a few players tell me they anticipated another bump in the road before deal got done..I am hopeful this is the last one. #pothole

 

[pepty]

http://www.thestar.com/sports/leafs...-lockout-players-expect-don-fehr-home-run-cox

dissolving the union and plunging the NHL into a period of utter chaos won’t count as a victory.

A victory is negotiating a winning settlement for players who have already lost so much and getting them back to work. A victory is finding a way to get the game back on the ice and expanding revenues to such an extent that even a 50-50 split will pour yet more greenbacks into the pockets of even the least talented NHL players.

So we sit back and wait. We adopt Fehr’s favourite strategy. We await the residue of his genius.



http://sports.nationalpost.com/2013/01/04/nhl-lockout-talks-waylaid-by-anger-mistrust/

And then, when Don Fehr decided not to pull the disclaimer trigger at midnight on Wednesday, which would have turned the talks nuclear, suddenly the clause was enough to render Thursday and Friday moot, with no full collective bargaining sessions, with the poor federal mediator schlumping the four blocks between NHL headquarters and the hotel where the players had set up camp. Suddenly it was being used to gin up outrage and frustration for a re-vote on disclaiming interest in the union, which the NHL maintains is a nuclear move that will end the season, even though in the NBA a deal was reached 12 days after the NBAPA did exactly that.

 

[LadyStanley]

TGfireandice 9:09pm via TweetDeck Mediation had positive impact in that they'll continue tomorrow. We'll see if it leads to face-to-face negotiations or more separated talks


JSportsnet 9:02pm via Twitter for BlackBerry®
Mediator Scot Beckenbaugh will meet first with the NHLPA at 10:30 am Saturday.


TheFourthPeriod 9:01pm via Tweet Button
CBA Update: The 2013-14 cap, escrow, player contacts, players' pension & min player salary remain unsettled. More here: thefourthperiod.com/news/nhl130104…


ESPN_NHL 8:58pm via ESPN News
Debate: Will shuttle diplomacy get it done? es.pn/WttXn8


JSportsnet 8:28pm via Twitter for BlackBerry®
Mediation only works if sides feel they are close. He cannot arbitrate issues, he only creates possibilities and lines of communication


JSportsnet 8:33pm via Twitter for BlackBerry®
Situation doesn't allow either side to "cherry pick" key pts. Either make a deal or you don't. Mediator tries to create workable equations.

ByKevinAllen 8:25pm via Web My final NHL labor story of the night. usat.ly/Z3sW6T

TGfireandice 8:24pm via twitterfeed Mediation done for the day; Will resume at 10:30 a.m. Saturday: After a lengthy day of meetings with federal med... *******/Vplp1B


DarrenDreger 8:02pm via Twitter for BlackBerry®
Credit where credit is due. Mediation creates enough traction to keep process moving and paints a general view of positivity.


ByKevinAllen 7:58pm via Mobile Web (M2)
If nothing else, a day of shuttle mediation brought down the temperature of negotiations. The process had become too heated again.


Real_ESPNLeBrun 7:57pm via Twitter for BlackBerry®
I think the fact the mediator believes it's worth continuing with his involvement for another day is a positive sign on some level


Real_ESPNLeBrun 7:45pm via TweetDeck
It's hard to gauge progress when it comes to mediation, but it wasn't a wasted day

 

[LadyStanley]

https://twitter.com/EricOnSportsLaw

Has long series of tweets talking about possibility/timing of filing disclaimer

Last time player vote to disclaim was 97% - will once again pass with overwhelming support - it's go time
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Now authorized to disclaim since need 50% +1 MT "@RealKyper NHLPA has received 75% needed votes to file disclaimer."
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No shock here players have authorized - now need to seriously consider disclaiming if not close by around Monday
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As we saw with NBA, if NHLPA disclaims NHL now negoates with lawyers of individual players since NHLPA can no longer collectively bargain
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It's not a CBA negotiation anymore - it becomes settlement talks related to a lawsuit now - so talks converted from CBA to settlement
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Stephen Fehr is not with NHLPA - he's outside counsel so yes he could negotiate for a player - in part logic of keeping him outside counsel
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Correction - Kyper says have 75% of needed votes and not 75% have votes yes
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17 days of NFL mediation didn't work nor did few days of NBA mediation; sports labor disputes don't profile for settlement at mediation...
...However it certainly doesn't hurt that they are still meeting
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NBA agreed to sign waiver that provided that post disclaimer talks would not be used as evidence of bad faith
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Absence of waiver won't preclude settlement negotiations post-disclaimer
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If the NHLPA disclaims - and that can be as soon as tomorrow at 6:01 - they do so to try and get this settled in short term and save season
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To answer questions: (1) It would not be a surprise to see the NHL disclaim interest tomorrow almost immediately following 6pm
(2) Disclaimer not necessarily sham; look at things like whether NHLPA engaged in talks and whether there is intention to re-form PA later
(2) While disclaimer certainly provides clear benefit to players can't say unequivocally sham - employees have right not to be unionized
(3) Disclaimer is designed in short term to save season
(4) Bettman has said if NHLPA disclaims season over; I'm not convinced that is case; only thing that ends season is deadline for season
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(5) If disclaim Fehr no longer leads talks - it would be lawyers negotiating on behalf of indiv players; S. Fehr as non-PA lawyer involved 2
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Why did Fehr no disclaim first time? Thought sides were close - maybe he believed in Kris Kringle
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Disclaimer not done in court - Fehr sends letter to Bettman advising of disclaimer - then lawsuit can file

 

[LadyStanley]

http://www.thestar.com/sports/leafs...-lockout-players-expect-don-fehr-home-run-cox
Cox: players expect Fehr home run

The PA hired Fehr, paid him a whack of dough, re-jigged its entire structure and gave him a bunch of other perqs in the belief that they’d acquired an unbeaten super-heavyweight capable to turning defeat into victory.
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But he’s still going to have to deliver.

We’re closing in on the bottom of the ninth and 700-plus players have bet hundreds of millions of dollars in salaries on Fehr coming through with a grand slam to prove the NHLPA did the right thing in unseating Kelly in the middle of the night and giving the keys to the union to Fehr.
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Presumably, that victory will emerge in the next few weeks, because if it doesn’t, Fehr will be exposed as the wizard behind the curtain, his calculations revealed as way off the mark.

Given his spectacular victories in baseball, he gets the benefit of the doubt here. We’ll assume he’s going to win this thing. What remains unclear is how, and this much is true; dissolving the union and plunging the NHL into a period of utter chaos won’t count as a victory.

http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/01/05/2583907/talks-slow-nhl-players-wonder.html

Players wonder what next?

 

[LadyStanley]

EricOnSportsLaw 6:56am via Web With proximity to season deadline, and impact of disclaimer, no day has been as critical as today - if ever there was a day to make progress

 

[LadyStanley]

KKurzCSN 10:02am via Twitter for Mac Several reports saying #NHL and #NHLPA will meet again at 1:15 EST. Mediation may have gotten things back on track.

 

[LadyStanley]

BretHedican 12:38pm via Web Nothing official yet that I've heard, but several sources have said it's done. Let's hope this is Official!


BretHedican 12:32pm via Web I'm hearing that the #NHL #Lockout is over! Let's get back 2 watching the greatest gm on earth! & let's not allow this to ever happen again!

cotsonika 1:15pm via Web Not exactly breaking news, but here's what I've got on good authority: There is reason to be optimistic, but it is all very tenuous.

 

[Boltsfan2029]

Michael Grange Michael Grange ‏@michaelgrange

Sources confirm that @odognine2 is just messing with people on twitter. He's good at it!

https://twitter.com/michaelgrange/status/287663786469507073

David Pagnotta ‏@TheFourthPeriod

Daly also tells me the reports out there that the lockout is over and a deal is done is "not true."

https://twitter.com/TheFourthPeriod/status/287668974899048448

Helene Elliott ‏@helenenothelen

Am told progress has been made in NHL labor dispute but there are some unresolved issues and it is NOT done yet.

https://twitter.com/helenenothelen/status/287669111696281602

 

[LadyStanley]

SunGarrioch 12:53pm via Twitter for BlackBerry® Talks are still continuing at this hour. The NHL wants a deal done asap because of the paperwork and logistics involved. Lots of work to do.


EricOnSportsLaw 12:53pm via Web Threat of NHLPA disclaimer looms and should encourage settlement in short term




http://sports.yahoo.com/news/mediation-nhl-talks-continue-saturday-090222663--nhl.html
AP: Mediator meeting with NHL, NHLPA (face-to-face meetings)


http://espn.go.com/blog/nhl/post/_/id/21155/sides-moving-closer-to-a-cba-deal
Burnside: sides moving closer to deal


http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/05/report-nhl-comes-off-60-million-cap-for-2013-14/
Brooks: NHL comes off $60mm cap for 13-14

 

[LadyStanley]

TSNBobMcKenzie 1:50pm via Twitter for BlackBerry® 3 things to remember: 1. Until whole deal is done, none of it is done. 2. I'm cautiously, VERY cautiously, optimistic. 3. Re-read No. 1.

 

[LadyStanley]

TGfireandice 2:47pm via TweetDeck Repeat, the CBA is not done. Just hearing that they've agreed on the number of years 10-years with opt out after Year 8.


Real_ESPNLeBrun 2:47pm via Twitter for BlackBerry®
Told this has potential to be marathon session tonight... We shall see


reporterchris 2:52pm via UberSocial for BlackBerry
Worth remembering that's nothing is done in CBA talks until everything is done. Sides are dealing with a lot of different issues.


TGfireandice 2:53pm via TweetDeck
IF - BIG IF - deal gets done in next couple of days, they wouldn't have to wait to Jan. 19 to start. Could start sooner, maybe play 50 games

 

[LadyStanley]

http://www.nj.com/devils/index.ssf/2013/01/if_nhl_lockout_ends_soon_media.html
Beckenbaugh, the hero?

 

[LadyStanley]

Real_ESPNLeBrun 4:27pm via Twitter for BlackBerry® Players willing to keep cap floor at $44 M for Year 2 cap even with higher upper limit


DarrenDreger 4:28pm via Twitter for BlackBerry®
@Real_ESPNLeBrun.Believed to be less than $2mil gap on cap. Important issue to PA for players and families impacted by team cap management.


cotsonika 4:30pm via Web
A $2M gap on cap for one year of eight- to 10-year CBA is silly, especially when players are limited to 50% of HRR no matter what cap is.


cotsonika 4:31pm via Web
Don't tell me the salary range can't be more than $16M for one transitional year of an eight- to 10-year agreement. Come on, guys.


wyshynski 4:46pm via twitterfeed
New Puck Daddy: NHL, NHLPA agree on 10-year CBA term, but lockout not done yet: Report yhoo.it/ZqjIqe


aaronward_nhl 4:50pm via Twitter for iPhone
Told NHLPA has moved on the salary cap to 64.3 which happens to be the upper limit from last year. #TSN


Russostrib 4:52pm via TweetDeck
According to #NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly, meeting began at 12:45 ET today and there has been "slow progress."


Russostrib 4:52pm via TweetDeck
Daly in email: "We hope to continue meeting to resolve as many open issues as we possibly can in pursuit of an agreement." #nhl


http://kuklaskorner.com/hockey/comments/evening-update-from-cba-meeting
KK updating news Saturday evening

http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Hockey/NHL/2013/01/05/20474626.html?cid=rsssportsslam! hockey
Garrioch: teams gearing up for season

 

[LadyStanley]

RealKyper 5:12pm via Twitter for BlackBerry® Work left 2 get #CBA done include, variance on contracts, term of deals, walkaway arb, pension, buyouts, all issues need to still b resolved

 

[LadyStanley]

EricOnSportsLaw: My source: deal is not as close as reported today; several outstanding issues including pensions; still work to be done - gap remains

eduhatschek: @EricOnSportsLaw It will not be done until both sides squeeze every last drop of blood from the stone. GB and DF cannot do it any other way.

 

[LadyStanley]

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=412880
Wild think season/deal is imminent. They pull prospect from AHL lineup to protect him from possible injury. (Projected to be their NHL 2nd line center)

 

[LadyStanley]

cotsonika 6:21pm via Web NHL felt burned by PA in '95 when signed memorandum of understanding and dropped puck. PA felt burned recently by HRR penalty flap.

EricOnSportsLaw 6:20pm via Web No deal tonight - divide remains - pension, cap among issues - no certainty here - still believe will settle - however not now


cotsonika 6:20pm via Web After a couple of conversations, I feel more strongly both sides -- esp. PA -- will want everything written before agreeing in principle.


Real_ESPNLeBrun 6:23pm via Twitter for BlackBerry®
Depending on if/when a deal is done, NHL has 50-game or 48-game schedules drawn up...


seangentille 6:24pm via dlvr.it
NHL lockout: 'Slow progress' and a battle over 1.6 percent dlvr.it/2lZ8VQ

 

[LadyStanley]

thegoldenmuzzy 7:04pm via Web NHL and PA still meeting..approaching 9 hours now. #marathon

 

[LadyStanley]

jprutherford 7:17pm via TweetDeck NHL deputy commish Bill Daly email to Post-Dispatch seconds ago: "It’s been a long day already and meetings are continuing.... (1/2)


jprutherford 7:18pm via TweetDeck
Daly contd "Dialogue has been good & there has been a healthy give & take. We resolved some open issues but still have a number to go†(2/2)

 

[LadyStanley]

RenLavoieRDS 8:40pm via Twitter for BlackBerry® I'll be surprise that a deal happen tonight. I've been told that both parties are too far on some important issues. We'll see.


Real_ESPNLeBrun 8:56pm via Twitter for BlackBerry®
Talks still ongoing. From NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly via email, "Still lots of issues unresolved."