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The NHL has tabled another comprehensive counter-proposal in response to the latest offer tabled by the NHL Players’ Associaton on Tuesday night. Both sides are making a last attempt of reaching a solution to save the season. It has been promise by the NHLPA executive director, Donald Fehr, that union will be looking at the documents overnight and hopefully return at the bargaining table on Wednesday.
Fehr refused to answer a pin-pointed query about the negotiations, saying “It’s better to be meeting than not but I’m not saying anything else more about it.” He added that these latest negotiations are taking place for preserving the last 48-game season, which is assumed to be the minimum number of game in a season. In case the 48-game schedule has to take place, the agreement will have to be reached by Jan. 11.
NHL commissioner, Gary Bettman, mentioned on Monday that “what we’ve said is we need to drop the puck by Jan. 19 if we’re going to play a 48-game season.” He added that “we don’t think it makes sense to play a season that is any shorter than that.” Fehr has already alleged, referring to the NHL’s proposal presented three days ago, that “we covered the range of subjects they covered.” These latest set of talks between the two, Fehr and Bettman, have come after a long break of almost more than a month. The two leaders previously allowed players and owners to negotiate directly for three days in early December.
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