David Alter via twitter: Bettman believes their offers were fair and balanced. None of the NHLPA’s offer approached 50/50.
Gino Reda via twitter: Gary Bettman, “the Proposal the Players Association gave us is a step backward from what we presented.”
David Pagnotta via twitter: Bettman, “I am, to say the least, thoroughly disappointed” … “This is the best offer we can make.”
Darren Dreger via twitter: Bettman said the league and the NHLPA are not speaking the same language.
Pierre LeBrun via twitter: Bettman said the NHLPA’s offers were “nowhere close” to the NHL’s offer on Tuesday.
Darren Millard via twitter: The 3 proposals were for 5 years, players share gets closer to 50/50 but falls short.
Darren Dreger via twitter: “Don’t be surprised if the NHL responds to todays meeting by announcing the cancellation of a big chunk of games…tomorrow. “
Gino Reda via twitter: Don Fehr, “The owners most current proposal was to reduce players salaries 12.3%, players asked me, “how could that be fair?”
Gino Reda via twitter: Fehr, “the players offered to make real concessions in terms of reducing their share of HRR, with some small degree of protection”
Pierre LeBrun via twitter: “Fehr insists that depending on revenue growth, NHLPA’s first proposal does go down to 50 percent eventually”
David Pagnotta via twitter: “In proposal 2, they’d use the 5% growth # and players would take that as part of the overall split, which would get to overall 50/50 split “
Gino Reda via twitter: Fehr, “we were told all three proposals were rejected immediately, and that their(owners) last offer was their best offer”
Gino Reda via twitter: Fehr, “what happens now? we communicate with players and agents, and go back to work to see if we can figure out something else”
Pierre LeBrun via twitter: Fehr said that all proposals today dealt only with the players share of HRR and core economics and not other systemic issues.
