obviously starting a season is probably more challenging. But what Baseball is fight for hockey already has, which is a guarantee split of the revenue. The baseball owners want the players to accept a 50-50 split of the revenues in order to account for a lack of gate revenue when games do begin. The players don’t want to accept anything beyond prorated their salaries for the number of games played because that would be basically accepting a cap, which they have fought against for the last 25 years.
It is going to be easier for hockey to restart as they already have the 50-50 split agreement. The only difficulty may be how to handle escrow and whether it will need to spread out into future years. Of course given there are only 2 years left on the CBA that may require a new cba negotiation. But apparently they had already started that before the pandemic hit.
