The Stanley Cup Finals began Wednesday, and while the cross-country battle between the Los Angeles Kings and New Jersey Devils for the National Hockey League championship plays out on the ice, owners of the NHL’s 30 teams and the union that represents players are gearing up off the ice to begin negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement that will take effect when the current accord expires on September 15.
The inability to strike a timely deal during the last round of labor talks caused the cancellation of the NHLs 2004-05 season, making the NHL the first major professional sports league in North America to scuttle a season due to labor strife. As it prepares to restart labor talks, the leaguewhich notified the players union in mid-May that it would not renew the current collective bargaining agreementis keen to avoid a rerun of that fiasco, especially at a time when the continent’s other three major sports have achieved labor peace.
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