dawgbone
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Tom_Benjamin said:The players put a very specific offer on the table. The owners have not. We do not know what the players will accept - whether they will make even more concessions - but there is an offer. They want exactly the same CBA, but they know they can't get that. So they made four very specific proposals for change. If the player offer had been accepted, we all know what the system would look like.
So what would the system look like? What were the complete numbers involved?
The Players’ four-point framework features a luxury tax, player salary rollbacks, changes to the Entry Level System, and a revenue-sharing plan.
Where are the hard numbers?
Is it any different from this?
1.) A hard salary cap imposed on payrolls that teams would not be allowed to exceed.
2.) A Performance-Based Salary System, in which a player's individual compensation would be based, in part, on negotiated objective criteria and, in part, on individual and team performance.
3.) A Payroll Range System in which teams could spend within a negotiated range of payrolls.
4.) A system premised on the Centralized Negotiation of Player Contracts, where the League would negotiate individual player contracts, either with players and their agents or with the Union directly.
5.) A Player Partnership Payroll Plan (P-4), which would involve individual player compensation being individually negotiated on the basis of "units" allocated for regular-season payrolls, supplemented by lucrative bonuses for team playoff performance.
6.) A Salary Slotting System, which would contemplate each team being assigned a series of "salary slots" at various levels, each of which would be allocated among each team's players pursuant to individual player-team negotiation.
Sorry, but both are vague.
I don't expect the owners to have tabled their absolutely final position, but I think the players have a right to expect the owners to declare an opening position that has some specific proposals. The owners even deny that they have tabled a hard cap at $31 million. They have tabled "concepts" and fans haven't even seen their "concepts".
Tom
They want cost certainty... that is their position. Their initial position was through a salary cap, but that was their starting position, just like the NHLPA's starting position was "The system works".