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Know Your CBA: The Cap Benefit Recapture Formula

Can 100% confirm the new CBA will include the cap benefit recapture formula. It will apply to existing deals “in excess of six years.”— James Mirtle (@mirtle) January 7, 2013 Part of the…Read More

The Oilers Family Needs A Voice Of Reason

I think we’ve all said or done things that we’ve regretted in life. So many times as an immature self-spoiled kid, I remember threatening to pack-up & run away multiple times when my parents…Read More

Delivered, Sealed, Now Sign It: My CBA Proposals

Over the weekend, the NHL CBA expired leaving GM’s frantic, sending as many players with ELC’s  to their related AHL farm teams as possible. Meanwhile, a large contingent of high caliber NHL…Read More

Fun With Numbers: How The NHL Shares A Billion Dollar Pie

So it’s Friday August 24, 2012 & we are now T-Minus 22 days until NHL commisioner Gary Bettman’s imposed lockout date on the NHLPA & both sides met for a whopping 3hrs this past week….I…Read More

Why Waiting To Sign Yakupov Makes Perfect Sense

  The Oilers should be, especially if the first round of CBA proposals, which included this ELC section set forth by the NHL has any legs. Under the current agreement (article 8), certain ELC…Read More

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This Is Not The Kind Of CBA Progress I’m Thinking Of

Hat tip to RDS’ Renaud Lavoie for these tweets NHL proposal to players: 1-reduce players hockey…Read More