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HOCKEY IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




NHL, union have tentative agreement

Updated: January 6, 2013, 6:17 AM ET
By Katie Strang | ESPNNewYork.com

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NEW YORK -- The lockout appears to finally be over.
A tentative agreement has been reached between the NHL and NHL Players' Association, multiple sources confirmed to ESPN.com.
A source told ESPNNewYork.com that the emphasis should be placed on the word "tentative." That source said there is still work to be done but there has been a verbal agreement between the two sides on the major points.
The tentative agreement includes a 10-year collective bargaining agreement with a mutual opt-out clause after eight years and contract term limits at seven years (eight years for a team to re-sign its own players), a source confirmed to ESPNNewYork.com.
Sources said the 2013-14 salary cap, a very divisive issue, will be $64.3 million while the floor will be $44 million.
Word of the agreement came after the two sides hashed out their remaining differences for more than 16 hours at a hotel in midtown Manhattan, spelling the end to a lockout that has persisted for almost four months and cost more than half the regular season.
George H. Cohen, director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, issued a statement congratulating the NHL and NHLPA.
"The negotiated agreement represents the successful culmination of a long and difficult road in which the parties ultimately were able to reach mutually acceptable solutions to a wide variety of contentious subjects of bargaining," he said.

[TS12000]

About fucking time!

GO AVS!

[Pancho Villa]

[opie011]

My thoughts exactly!

[Great-Kazoo]

HOKIE?? Isn't that a place where angry russians and canuks put on costumes BEFORE they start hitting each other.

Oh GOSH look der ya know its Gordie Howe OH YA!

[GlockDog47]

Lol. Bout time

[Byte Stryke]

+1 with a

"why?"

[blacklabel]

Nailed it.

[rockhound]

hockey is one of those sports where going to the game is way better than watching it on TV, we used to go to the Blackhawk games when they were in Dallas. It was a lot of fun at the stadium, i wont sit down and watch it in my living room though.

[Scanker19]

Yea. Go Wings.