JWI19 said:
Can someone translate this article. Local radio show host was reading the rds site saying they were meeting today. But i dont read french.
http://www.rds.ca/hockey/chroniques/172646.html
Tuesday February 15, 2005 - New York (PC) - A a few hours of the probable advertisement of the cancellation of the season 2004-2005 of the national League of Hockey, the Association of the players would have subjected, late Monday evening, an offer of wage ceiling which would however have been rejected by the leaders of the circuit.
According to what learned the English network from NTR, the offer of the players comprised a wage ceiling being established to 52 million $ US per team. She would have been proposed in the Niagara Falls, in the State of New York, by Ted Saskin, the representative of the players, with its with respect to the national League, Bill Daly.
Never, up to now, the Association of the players had not adhered to the principle of the wage ceiling.
This offer constituted a response to a proposal has been just tended by the league, made up of a wage ceiling tight to 40 million $ US and of a device binding the wage bill of the players to the incomes of the national League.
The proposal of the players would have also comprised a reduction of 24 percent of the wages being reproduced on the contracts in force, just as a modification of the threshold of imposition of the teams on their wage bills.
In spite of these developments, it remains expected tomorrow that the police chief of the national League, Gary Bettman, announces the cancellation of the season 2004-05 at the time of a press conference, afternoon, in New York. This advertisement was to occur today, but it was pushed back 12 midnight because of the ultimate meeting of yesterday between Bill Daly and Ted Saskin.
Yesterday, at the end of the evening, the national League affirmed that no progress had been recorded after five months of lockout.
The national League of hockey would become the first professional circuit in North America to entirely cancel its regular season.