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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2013 9:34:13 GMT -5
@espn_NHL: NHL, NHLPA reach tentative agreement, source says t.co/OTcQDhqoNEW 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, contract term limits at seven years (eight years for a team to re-sign its own players) and a 2013-14 salary cap of $64.3 million, a source confirmed to ESPNNewYork.com. 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.
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BR329
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Post by BR329 on Jan 6, 2013 9:55:37 GMT -5
f*** YEAH!!!
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Post by pepsitwist on Jan 6, 2013 10:07:49 GMT -5
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Jan 6, 2013 10:25:14 GMT -5
I feel like the great things that happened to me had to be taken away before hockey came back. In the last 2 weeks or so. My girlfriend broke up with me, New Year's was a sad mess, my paychecks suck more and more at work, I've lost certain items that are semi important, and it came to a head last night as the Vikings lost in a pathetic way behind Joe Webb.
Let's Go Devils
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Post by corndog on Jan 6, 2013 10:32:42 GMT -5
It's about $#*@ing time! I had pretty much given up on this year. But perfect time really with the NFL and college football rapping up, this is usually the time of year I realy start following it anyways.
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Post by darthalexander on Jan 6, 2013 10:37:47 GMT -5
Would have been nice if this had been settled long ago but I guess it's better late then ever. Go Habs Go! In the other thread, slickness wrote this: I still loathe everyone involved in making this whole thing last this needlessly long. That said.... YEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
*Hugs everyone, including Darth Alxander*
I hugged a Habs fan! Ew!!! ah well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YYYYYEEEEAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!! Why thanks buddy. Since I'm so happy I will hug you back...maybe even BVR. In a couple of weeks we can go back to hating again.
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Post by Premier Blah on Jan 6, 2013 10:47:37 GMT -5
OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE IS OVER!
Now to look forward to see Scott Gomez have a 3-goal season.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Jan 6, 2013 10:50:44 GMT -5
Lockout over once we reached 30 pages on the last thread.... why didn't we do that sooner?
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Post by darthalexander on Jan 6, 2013 10:51:16 GMT -5
OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE IS OVER! Now to look forward to see Scott Gomez have a 3-goal season. Nah, it'll be two because the third won't count since the ref intended to blow the whistle before it crossed the goal line. I can't wait to bitch about him already!
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jan 6, 2013 10:55:50 GMT -5
OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE IS OVER! Now to look forward to see Scott Gomez have a 3-goal season. woah woah woah MAYBE if we had an 82 game schedule. but this one's barely half that so mathematically 1.5 is more realistic (the .5 is for a goal that deflects off the other team's player but Gomez gets credit by being the last Hab to touch it). glad we're not losing another season, but the fact that they waited until right before the season started to negotiate still strikes me as stupid as hell. I hope they remembered the provision for the next CBA that before they negotiate they lock Bettman and Fehr in a broom closet and "misplace" the key.
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Post by RKTaker on Jan 6, 2013 11:02:12 GMT -5
it's about time lets go rangers
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2013 11:11:29 GMT -5
Awesome news to wake up to!
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agent817
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Post by agent817 on Jan 6, 2013 11:20:24 GMT -5
I had been waiting for the season to begin since the Fall. IT IS ABOUT TIME!
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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on Jan 6, 2013 11:24:10 GMT -5
Those f***ers still owe us a Winter Classic.
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Post by VRM: LET'S GO BLUESHIRTS!! on Jan 6, 2013 11:29:05 GMT -5
Those f***ers still owe us a Winter Classic. Not only us, but the 100,000+ people that would've been there.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2013 11:37:16 GMT -5
Those f***ers still owe us a Winter Classic. Yeah they owe the Red Wings a win. GO WINGS!!!
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agent817
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Post by agent817 on Jan 6, 2013 11:44:35 GMT -5
Those f***ers still owe us a Winter Classic. Not only us, but the 100,000+ people that would've been there. Man, I love those stadium hockey matches.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Jan 6, 2013 11:46:56 GMT -5
bah a Canadian team has no business in a Winter Classic
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Post by Steveweiser on Jan 6, 2013 11:50:20 GMT -5
YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY - GO HAWKS!
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Post by MiLB Fan on Jan 6, 2013 11:56:03 GMT -5
Hooray! Hopefully this will also end the elitism on the Facebook page for my town's arena. I swear, every time they announced an upcoming event during the lockout, it was met with "blargh this sux we want hockey!!!"
Look, I like hockey too but the building is called a MULTIPURPOSE venue for a reason.
How fitting that the January picture on my calendar is of me at an NHL game.
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