Malkin, Crosby score all 5 Penguins objectives in preseason win (0:49)
Evgeni Malkin nets a hat technique, and Sidney Crosby pitches in 2 objectives of his own in the Penguins’ 5-2 win over the Senators. (0:49)
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Greg Wyshynski, ESPNOct 1, 2024, 05:55 PM ET
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- Greg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL author.
NEW YORK CITY– Commissioner Gary Bettman stated the NHL will open cumulative bargaining arrangement talks with the gamers at the start of 2025 and is positive about getting an offer done.
The present CBA ends Sept. 15, 2026. Bettman notified the league’s board of guvs about opening settlements throughout their conference Tuesday in New York.
“In regards to timing that’s most likely the most reasonable, which is still well ahead of time [of its expiration],” Bettman stated. “In regards to the relationship, we believe we’re in an excellent location.”
NHLPA executive director Marty Walsh just recently began his trip of all 32 groups to much better comprehend what the gamers desire out of the next CBA. This will be the very first contract worked out by Walsh, who took control of for Don Fehr in February 2023.
Bettman stated he didn’t wish to hypothesize about how rapidly an offer might get done.
“If we had it done by my media accessibility at the Stanley Cup Final, everyone would be really delighted,” Bettman stated. “But that’s not a conversation, in regards to the schedule, that I’ve had with Marty Walsh, so I do not wish to put any unjust specifications on it. It’ll be what it’ll be, however I believe based upon the status of our relationship, this will be great.”
Amongst the subjects the owners and gamers will talk about for the next CBA is a modification to the league’s schedule. Decreasing the variety of preseason video games and broadening the NHL’s 82-game routine season is “on a list of things to think of” for the owners ahead of the next CBA, Bettman stated.
Sources informed ESPN in December 2022 that the NHL had actually talked about broadening the season to 84 video games to produce more local competition matches. The league has actually been thinking about options to its present schedule after some groups grumbled about an imbalanced variety of divisional video games versus competitors.
In other board news, Bettman stated the “method, method, method, method initial” income cap figure for 2025-26 is $92.5 million, compared to $88 million this season.
The league and the NHLPA have actually likewise offered the Columbus Blue Jackets an unique dispensation to begin the season under the $65 million income flooring following the death of star forward Johnny Gaudreau in August. His agreement brought a typical yearly worth of $9.75 million.
“We had actually had a terrible set of situations,” deputy commissioner Bill Daly stated. “It was the majority of the method through the summer season and we dealt with the gamers association regarding what made one of the most sense in regards to dealing with that circumstance.”
The NHL informed Columbus that the allowance will continue for a “sensible timeframe.” When asked what that period may be,