NHL, union reach tentative agreement

[Jazzy]

The NHL and the players' association reached a tentative agreement early Sunday to end a nearly four-month-old lockout that threatened to wipe out what was left of an already abbreviated season.



A marathon negotiating session that lasted more than 16 hours, stretching from Saturday afternoon until just before dawn Sunday, produced a 10-year deal.



We've got to dot a lot of Is and cross a lot of Ts, Commissioner Gary Bettman said. There's still a lot of work to be done.



The collective bargaining agreement still must be ratified by a majority of the league's 30 owners and the union's membership of approximately 740 players.



Under the negotiated CBA, free-agent contracts will have a maximum length of seven years, but clubs can go to eight years to re-sign their own players. Each side can opt out of the deal after eight years.

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Will any of you be watching these games?

 

[Evil Eye]

No.

I wouldn't even know where to look.

 

[JetWing34]

Tens of thousands of fans in a Stanley Cup Final game will boo at the commissioner when the commissioner walks out on center ice to present the Cup and the Smythe. I just want him to either step down or get fired.