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This is Michael Russo's 17th year covering the National Hockey League. He's covered the Minnesota Wild for the Star Tribune since 2005 following 10 years of covering the Florida Panthers for the Sun-Sentinel. Michael uses “Russo’s Rants” to feed a wide-ranging hockey-centric discussion with readers, and can be heard weekly on KFAN (100.3 FM) radio.
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More NHL cancelations coming today; Decertifying NHLPA next strategy?; Gophers in Burlington
Posted by: Michael Russo Updated: November 23, 2012 - 11:32 AM
The NHL continues to be on hiatus, but the Gophers men's hockey team is in action Friday and Saturday (6 p.m. CT) with its first trip to the University of Vermont in program history.
Here is the story I wrote on freshman goalie Adam Wilcox from Friday's paper. He's a fun interview. He's got the best goals against average in the WCHA (1.55) for the nation's fifth-best defense (1.91).
The Gophers (7-2-2 overall, 2-2-1 on the road) are coming off three points vs. Wisconsin and split last year’s first-ever series with Vermont at Mariucci Arena. C Erik Haula is tied for second in the WCHA and seventh in the NCAA with 14 points. Haula and C Nick Bjugstad, who has been fighting the flu all week, are tied for fifth in the WCHA with six goals each. C Tom Serratore snapped an eight-game point drought with the winning goal Saturday vs. the Badgers. The Gophers are 7-0 when LW Kyle Rau has a point. The Gophers rank first in the WCHA in power play (.250) and penalty kill (.882) percentages and have outshot their opponents in 10 of 11 games. They are the fourth-least penalized team in the nation (10.1 minutes a game). LW Sam Warning (upper body) will miss his eighth and ninth games and G Mike Shibrowski is hurt.
As you know, talks exploded yet again between the NHL and NHLPA on Wednesday when the union made a comprehensive proposal that wasn't accepted by the league. The two sides are expected to at least touch base Friday, but there are no bargaining sessions planned.
This afternoon, the NHL will cancel the slate of games between Nov. 30 and Dec. 14 and the All-Star Game in Columbus, says sources. That'll be 423 regular-season games plus the Winter Classic axed. This was supposed to happen earlier in the week, but that was pushed back due to the union coming to the bargaining table, and than of course, Thanksgiving.
Gary Bettman says the league is losing $18-$20 million a day in revenue.
Whether it's a bluff or a scare tactic or a strategy the NHLPA actually plans to go through with, the union has begun investigating the realities of decertification because the players are starting to feel this is their only option.
It was discussed at length during Wednesday's conference call after the league rejected the players' most recent proposal.
Essentially that means disbanding the union, meaning the league (i.e.) owners no longer have a partner to negotiate with. Means the collective bargaining agreement is gone, players file lawsuit in an effort to have the lockout deemed illegal, and a train that is already off the tracks could potentially get even further buckled as this thing hits the uncertainty of the court system.
Means no salary cap, means no minimum or maximum salaries (which may be reason enough to frighten off the fringe players; what's to keep the Crosby's from getting $20 million a year and the sixth or seventh defenseman from $50,000 a year?), no guaranteed contracts, no entry draft, no pension, no medical benefits.
The hope is the threat alone of this chaos enough gets the owners to the table willing to make a number of concessions and a deal complete. This occurred during last year's NBA lockout, and a week later, deal complete.
If it gets into the courts, season over, I promise.
To get this ball rolling, a petition would need to be signed by one-third of the 725 or so union members. That process has not begun.
I failed decertification class in school, so let some experts educate you:
James Mirtle from the Globe and Mail
-- By the way, want to read a terrific piece on the genius of Donald Fehr? Check out this column in the Washington Post. I think it's dead-on. The owners had no clue it would get to this point, and that's their fault. They completely underestimated Fehr.
NHL/NHLPA deputies meet into night, plan to meet again; What players may get in new CBA
Posted by: Michael Russo Updated: November 4, 2012 - 12:00 PMDon’t get your hopes up yet, but we may finally have some traction in labor negotiations between the NHL and NHL Players’ Association.
The two No. 2’s – Bill Daly and Steve Fehr – met for several hours Saturday and into the night at a neutral, undisclosed location, and there are plans for the league and union to meet again early this week. It’s uncertain if the next meeting will again include Daly and Steve Fehr, or if Commissioner Gary Bettman and Executive Director Don Fehr will join the fray.
“We had a series of meetings over the course of the day and had a good, frank discussion on the most important issues separating us,” Daly said.
In other words, the two sides are sitting down and talking about the nuts and bolts of the issues that could actually end this lockout and save a portion of the season rather than simply the peripheral, “non-core economic” issues, that were largely talked about whenever Daly and Steve Fehr met alone in September and October.
"I agree with what Bill said," Steve Fehr said. "Hopefully we can continue the dialogue, expand the group, and make steady progress."
TSN's Aaron Ward reported that the NHLPA negotiating committee has a conference call this afternoon.
As first reported late Friday by TSN’s Darren Dreger, Daly made it known to Fehr during a substantive phone conversation Tuesday that the owners were willing to absorb the share of the “Make Whole” proposition.
On Oct. 16, the NHL proposed an immediate 50-50 split of hockey-related revenues with the players and a “make whole” proposition where all players would be reimbursed the 12.3 percent cut in salaries over the length of their contracts. The kicker was that money would ultimately be charged to the player share in future years.
The league on Tuesday told the union that the owners are now willing to absorb that burden. Of course, the devil’s in the details, and how that would work is key and you can bet this topic was a significant portion of yesterday’s meetings between Daly and Steve Fehr.
But this is huge concession because players have made very clear in the last little bit that they are willing to go to a 50-50 split as long as all their contracts mutually negotiated in good faith under the previous collective bargaining agreement are honored in full.
If that’s true, and there’s indeed no strings attached to this owner proposition, this would be a huge step toward a new CBA and then moving on to negotiating the other systematic changes the league wants to make that the players have had issues with (moving free agency to age 28 or eight years of service, five-year max contracts, year to year salary variability of 5 percent, dropping entry-level deals from three years of length to two, etc).
There has been a lot of headway in negotiations that really has not been spelled out to date, but because the owners are looking to reduce the players’ share from 57 to 50 in a new CBA, there seems to be a perception that the players would get nothing in a new CBA.
That’s not entirely true.
Among other things, the owners have proposed to 1) artificially inflate the salary cap in Year 1 so teams don’t have to trade or release players; 2) trade player salary and cap charges in trades (this is something both teams and players have wanted); 3) eliminate re-entry waivers; 4) Increase revenue sharing with further increases as revenues grow, and the top grossing teams making the biggest contributions (revenue sharing is something Don Fehr is passionate about; wants it so the teams that really need assistance are assisted); 5) Introduction of appeal rights to a neutral third-party arbitrator in cases involving on- and- off-ice discipline (player-proposed wish).
Some other things that the players should like:
1) Joint NHL/NHLPA Health and Safety Committee with equal representation by the league and union; 2) Establishment of a “standard of care” and “primary allegiance” obligations between the team medical staff and players (this is directly due to the tragic Derek Boogaard situation that remains ongoing); 3) Offseason rehab activities would no longer be required in the team’s home city; 4) Players have access to second medical opinions at the club expense; 5) Ice time restrictions and days off during training camp; 5) Improved facility standards in visiting locker rooms; 6) Ice condition improvements and standards; 7) More player friendly rules for parent-son trips, teams would have to pay for parents travel and lodging to first-ever games, other milestones; 8) Different standards for rent and mortgage reimbursements from teams; 9) increased access to tickets for visiting players and also a game ticket policy that minimizes the tax impact on players; 10) And also, the league has agreed to consider a player proposal for single rooms for all players on the road, which would be thousands of extra dollars spent on travel. Typically, players share rooms on the road unless you’re a longstanding player (600 games), or in a lot of cases, goaltenders.
The Wild saved money on this with the great Nick Schultz. He reached his single room milestone, but he stayed with Mikko Koivu because Koivu told Schultz that if he ditched him as a road roommate, Koivu would never talk to him again.
As Schultz joked for that story I wrote at the time: “I’m stuck with him.” 
Anyway, if you’ve read me or listened to me on the radio throughout this process, you know I’ve been very pessimistic about a deal getting done. I would say I’ve switched to cautiously optimistic now. I have been given hope that the two least turbulent leaders in this negotiation are sitting down talking about things that actually matter, and without storming off in a huff and a puff.
This is a math equation now. Solve the math equation, save some face, catapult this league back onto the national landscape and make sure that a large portion of the 2012-13 season is played.
By the way, there has been a lot of Twitter speculation that if a deal is consummated quickly that the Winter Classic can be “uncanceled.” No chance of that.
The time had come where the game needed to be postponed until next year.
Between the Winter Classic (about 115,000 tickets) at the “Big House” and the Hockeytown Winter Festival (250,000 tickets) at Comerica Park, more than 365,000 fans would have attended the events. Many of those fans needed to make plans that would have required non-refundable airline tickets and hotel commitments.
More than 10,000 temporary employees needed to be hired, seven games were taking place involving the NCAA, AHL and OHL and several high school and youth games, there were two alumni games, business and broadcast partners needed to know, HBO 24/7 had to start and then there were immense operational costs (security, rent for the stadiums, cancelation deadlines for hotels, assembling the rinks, securing deposits for generators, heavy equipment, trailers, tents, video boards), ordering product to be sold at retail, production of banners and décor.
This cannot magically resurrect itself now. The Winter Classic will not occur even if a deal is struck in short time between the NHL and NHLPA.
Forget the Winter Classic. Let’s just hope for that deal now. Stay tuned.
Gophers blank Canisius 1-zip
Posted by: Michael Russo Updated: October 28, 2012 - 5:14 PMCanisius showed just why they’re considered to be a scrappy team this afternoon.
Despite getting nearly run out of the building in the first 10 minutes, goalie Tony Capobianco shut the door, let his nervous teammates settle in and put the Griffins in a position where they were one Gophers breakdown or bad bounce or great play away from tying the game and sending this one to overtime.
But in the end, freshman Adam Wilcox shut the door with 20 saves for his first college shutout by a 1-0 score. His last, with 30 seconds left to cruelly rob Tyler Wiseman, was a thing of beauty and may have earned him the No. 1 job.
Don Lucia wouldn’t say obviously, but he definitely raved about the South St. Paul lad and the confidence he has in him during the postgame press scrum. By Thursday, Lucia said the coaching staff will either decide to continue with the Michael Shibrowski-Wilcox rotation into a fourth weekend, maybe switch it up where Wilcox plays Friday and Shibrowski Saturday OR let one goalie play both games.
My guess?
That sounds to me like Wilcox plays Friday against Minnesota State, and if he plays well and/or isn’t overly taxed, he plays on the road in Mankato on Saturday.
Again, this is pure conjecture but an educated guess from somebody who’s covered a lot of hockey games (albeit not a lot of college games) and read the minds of a ton of coaches.
Kyle Rau scored 12 seconds in and looked like he had a ton of energy after missing Friday’s exhibition game with a bum ankle. He had seven shots and was robbed a bunch by Capacabana, I mean, Capobianco.
You’ve got to feel for the Griffins’ goalie. He made 41 saves tonight, was outstanding, has a 1.78 goals against average this year and a .933 save percentage, YET, the poor guy hasn’t gotten a W because of a lack of goal support.
In six games, Canisius has given up 12 goals and scored only five.
Tonight, Rau, Erik Haula and Nick Bjugstad combined for 20 of the Gophers’ 42 shots. They attempted 73. Bjugstad and Jake Parenteau, who played after taking a shot to the knee Friday, assisted on Rau’s goal.
Sam Warning didn’t play and his status isn’t known yet for next weekend. Lucia said he did ride the bike the last few days. Defenseman Ben Marshall played forward after just one day of practice on the second line today.
Lucia said Brady Skjei is looking good for next weekend. He missed both games this weekend but did practice the other day.
I’ll be blogging after the charity game later tonight, and you can follow all the anecdotes on www.twitter.com/russostrib.
Gophers getting ready to hit road for WCHA play
Posted by: Michael Russo Updated: October 17, 2012 - 3:41 PMThe Gophers, ranked No. 1 in the nation in every poll that matters, open conference play this weekend with a two-game set at Michigan Tech. The Gophers, who have practiced all week on the smaller sheet of ice at Ridder Arena to prepare, will practice again Thursday morning before making the long trek via bus to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
Tech, which split last weekend with Lake Superior State (8-4 winners in Game 2, so the Huskies can pop in some rubber) is coached by Mel Pearson, the former Edina player, and assisted by former Vancouver Canucks star rookie Bill Muckalt (cup of coffee with the Wild) and former NHL and most importantly Florida Panthers goalie (cup of coffee actually) and poker superstar Steve Shields.
The Gophers are 172-77-15 all-time vs. Tech – 8-2 in the last 10 meetings. With one more win, coach Don Lucia, in his 26th year of coaching, will become the 10th college hockey coach in history to win 600 games, the ninth to do so exclusively with Division I schools (Alaska-Fairbanks, Colorado College and the U).
In Friday’s Star Tribune, I will look back to where it all began for Lucia both personally and professionally -- Alaska-Fairbanks, where he was a grad student/assistant rink manager/coaching aid/glorified custodian, to eventually an assistant coach, to ultimately, the head coach.
The Gophers are on the ice now. They can only take 22 players to Houghton, but Lucia didn’t want to divulge the roster yet because he has not yet told the players.
He did make clear that Nick Bjugstad, the WCHA Offensive Player of the Year after scoring the game-winning goals in both games and having an assist, is good to go despite the scary incident in Game 2 when he was tripped in the first period. Bjugstad labored to the bench and was flexing his leg all game, but Lucia said he is fine and practiced by Monday.
“I’ve seen enough of that the last few years with key guys getting hurt and done for the year,” Lucia said. “We were all [holding our breath]. But no, he was fine. We’re all very grateful of that.”
Here’s Lucia on some other subjects:
On Michigan Tech: “Our goalies are going to be tested more. Our team is going to be tested more, and I like Tech’s team. We saw them last year in December. They had three well-balanced lines, they defended well and they had a good team. You look at their team this year, they have all their D back. They’re breaking in a new goaltender – a freshman goaltender, as we are. they’ve got a veteran backup – a senior goaltender. They’ve got some top forwards back, and I think that’s the strength of their team. They’ve got three lines that can score and make plays, and they come after you. What going to be different this week than what our kids have seen there before is I think the attendance is going to be really good. I’ve told some of our guys, when I played, it was one of my favorite trips. The place was always packed. It was a great atmosphere to play in. They had 3,900, which is basically a sellout, for their game against Lake State. So it should be a fun environment to play in for our players.
On Pearson: “He’s [got that program going]. They’re playing an up-tempo style. I mean, they’re coming after you like he coached [as an assistant] at Michigan, and they’ve done a really nice job at getting that program back.”
On smaller ice sheet? “Things happen more quickly. You’ve got to use the walls more, you’ve got to have good support, both offensively and defensively, and there’s obviously a little more body contact and battles that go on. It might take a period just to get used to that pace.”
“They’ve got skill to put on their power play. They scored four or five power-play goals against Lake State that opening weekend, but Mike [Guentzel] will have a great gameplan for that, the goaltenders will have to make some saves. Our team is evolving and growing. Watching this week, how are we going to respond on the road? How are our goaltenders going to do when they see 30 shots? Last week they didn’t have to worry about second shots or anything like that. Now all of a sudden they’re going to have to worry more about those things.”
On WCHA games starting? “anytime you deal with conference games, it’s a little bit added. We started five out of six on the road at the beginning of the year in the conference, so getting off to a good start even though they’re road games is important because then you’ll get those home games as a reward down the line.”
Significant development in negotiations between the NHL and NHLPA; Bettman transcript
Posted by: Michael Russo Updated: October 16, 2012 - 5:20 PMUPDATED
There has finally been significant movement in negotiations between the NHL and NHLPA that may lead to traction toward hopefully ending the lockout.
In Toronto today, the NHL made a long-term proposal that lands the split in revenues to the 50-50 we all knew was the league’s intent all along.
The league has made clear its intent is to preserve an 82-game season that would begin Nov. 2.
“We very much want to preserve a full 82-game season, and in that light we made a proposal,” Commissioner Gary Bettman said. “It is our best shot at preserving an 82-game regular season and playoffs. We’re focused on getting the season started on Nov. 2. That’s what this offer was about.”
That would allow a weeklong training camp beginning Oct. 26, meaning the CBA would need to get done by Oct. 25.
Please go to the bottom of the blog for a transcript from Bettman:
Obviously the devil is in the details, but here are some things that have been reported by media on the scene:
1. NHLPA Executive Director Donald Fehr said the proposal is “at least six years” and that the negotiations today have broken up because the union wants to completely review, digest and understand the NHL’s offer.
“Gary indicated to me and I assume he indicated to you that they would like to get a full 82-game season in,” Fehr said. “We, of course, share that view and would like to get a full 82-game season in. And, so, what our hope is that after we review this that there will be a feeling on the players’ side that this is a proposal from which we can negotiate and try to reach a conclusion. But, we are not in a position to make any comments about it beyond that at this point.”
2. The NHLPA has called for a 4 p.m. CT conference call of the Executive Board and negotiating committee.
3. According to Sportsnet’s John Shannon (@jsportsnet), who used to work for the NHL and is very plugged in, free agency would be 28 years old or eight years of service (currently 27 and 7, and down from NHL’s July 13 offer of 10 years. Contract length maximums would be five years (this, the players will want to negotiate, I’m thinking). Arbitration would still exist (league proposed to abolish arb in July). Entry-level contracts would be three years (currently three and down from five in league’s July proposal). Revenue sharing would be near $200 million.
4. According to Bettman, there would be no salary rollback. That is obviously big because the players want owners to honor what they agreed to pay.
What I'm told by sources is there will still be escrow because you never know what the hockey related revenue will be for upcoming seasons. In terms of a rollback, players made $1.883 billion last year. They made 57% of the revenue. The 50-50 split would be for this upcoming season. Players go down to 50%, they basically lose about 12 percent of their salary. That difference would be deferred and reimbursed to the players over the course of their contract. So to be simple, if you lose $1 million and you're on a 10-year deal, you'd get $100,000 a year reimbursement for the next 10 years.
5. If you're an NHL player sent to the minors on a one-way contract and make over a certain amount of money, that contract in the minors would be charged against the NHL cap. It's the Wade Redden rule, essentially, not allowing a team like the Rangers to hide $6 million in the minors and have it taken off their cap.
Again, we need to see more details, and all this will still need to be negotiated, I promise. We have to see what the union says after it crunches the numbers, but my guess is there will be a lot of negotiation sessions the next week (which is a good thing.)
6. Nov. 2 start dates means the Wild's first nine games must be rescheduled by adding games in an extended season in April and by adding one game every five weeks. But with the schedule standing pat, the Wild would currently begin Nov. 3 with a six-game road trip in Tampa Bay. As the schedule currently stands, 15 of the Wild's first 19 games would be on the road.
Small price to pay though for a hockey season.
I'll be interested to see what happens here. For instance, I've confirmed Mikko Koivu's deal is done with Turku. I'm told it took awhile because he needed to get his shoulder insured. That's been rectified and he was scheduled to leave for Finland Friday.
Does that change?
So, where do we stand?
1. Positive movement.
2. Traction to at least negotiate and continue speaking.
3. Most fans I talk to say 50-50 is fair. Most players I’ve talked to have told me 50-50 is where they think is fair, too. We again need to see all the details in this CBA proposal, but initially, the side of public opinion will surely move in the league’s favor.
The pressure is on the union right now to review and respond and continue to move this process in a direction where it leads to a 2012-13 NHL season.
Stay tuned. I'll be updating the blog as more details emerge.
FROM BETTMAN
Good afternoon, everyone. Bill Daly and I just spent the last hour
with Don and Steve Fehr, and I would like to briefly report to you on what
was discussed. As I think all of you know we have been extremely
disappointed, and that's an understatement, that we've been unable to get
these negotiations on the essential elements moving forward. So, today, we
began by discussing with Don and Steve that if we were to drop the puck on
November 2nd for the start of the regular season, we could preserve an
82-game schedule for the regular season and play full playoffs as we
normally do and be done before the end of June.
We very much want to preserve a full 82-game season, and in that
light, we made a proposal, an offer, really that is our best shot at
preserving an 82-game regular season and playoffs, and this offer that we
made obviously was contingent upon having an 82-game regular season.
A lot of you know we don't negotiate publicly, and I'm not going to
break that habit because I don't think it's constructive. The fact of the
matter is, we offered a 50-50 share of HRR, hockey related revenues, and we
believe we addressed the concern that players have about what happens to
their salaries as a result in this year of reducing the percentage from 57
to 50%.
Beyond that, I don't want to get into the substance other than to say
we believe that this was a fair offer for a long-term deal, and it's one
that we hope gets a positive reaction so that we can drop the puck on
November 2nd -- which backing up, entails at least a one-week training
camp. So we have about nine or ten days to get this all put to bed,
signed, sealed and delivered, in order for this offer to be effective and
for us to move forward.
We hope that this effort that we've undertaken today would be
successful because we know how difficult this all has been for everybody
associated with the game, particularly our fans.
How confident are you that this is going to go forward?
Well, we certainly hope it will. We've given it our best shot.
What was the reaction?
The reaction was that they obviously need to study it, and so we told
them that we're available to them. But they're going to need some time to
review it, and I respect that portion of the process. Obviously, they've
got to understand the offer and get comfortable with it.
Was it just the core economic issues in terms of the offer?
We had a number of significant elements that we believe can and
should serve as the basis of a deal to get us playing hockey.
Why do this today?
Because if we want to have an 82-game regular season, if we want to
preserve an 82-game regular season and you back up the timetable in terms
of the schedule, we needed to do it.
By the way, in terms of the schedule, so everybody understands, the
compression that would be involved is one additional game every five weeks.
Beyond that, we don't think it would be good for the players or for the
game. But if you look at what our ability would be to schedule 82 games
and you work back from November 2nd, if we didn't do it now, if we didn't
put an effort on the table that we thought was fair and could get us
playing hockey, if we didn't do it now, then it probably wasn't going to
happen for a while. Because, again, it's done in the spirit of getting a
full season in.
Is it 50-50 across the board?
It's 50-50 across board.
How long of a contract will this be?
I'm not going to get into the specifics. We proposed a long-term
contract. We think that's in everybody's interest. We think that's what
our fans want.
Can you explain how you address the roll back or the escrow?
There is no roll back, and I'm not going to get into the specifics.
It would not be constructive at this point in time. The union has some
work to do, and we respect the process. I probably have gone further than
I usually have in terms of discussing what we've proposed than at any other
time. But I'm not comfortable going any further. I'm more concerned about
the process right now and getting us back on the ice.
How worried are you they might say no and more of the season will be
lost?
I don't even want to go there.
Is the league amenable to playing an abbreviated schedule?
We're focused on getting the puck dropped on November 2nd and playing
a full 82-game regular season and full playoffs. That's what this offer is
all about.
Have you made plans to meet later in the week?
We're going to be on-call to them. They have some work to do
internally. Obviously, we didn't put this proposal, this offer, together
overnight, and they're going to need a little time to review it. I'm
hoping that review will get us to a positive and constructive place.
-----
In Gophers news, Nick Bjugstad was named WCHA Offensive Player of the Week. The junior center scored winning goals in each victory vs. Michigan State.
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