Do you think the players will accept this deal?

This latest offer is a small move from the previous last offer. If the players don accept this deal or make an offer similar in the main points. 10 year term (this is not from the owners but from the fans and the sponsors), a term on contract length, one time buy out (out of cap). Players or owners share is immaterial.

Here is where the League is fixed on two points

a) no more money (50/50 + $300MM)

b) 10 year term of CBA.

Others may be tweaked with minor tweaks.

But if players don't accept within four days. They deserve to not get paid for another year at least.

I dont think they accept the deal as written but it is the starting point to getting a deal done. The owners have finally come off the "take it or leave it" garbage and made a small move towards the players. The detail everybody to this point has left out is free agency time/age and that will be huge for the players (lets just say a little birdie told me that one). The players will do all they can to either grab other gains or keep that 2nd contract as the "pay me" one, currently the leagues proposal before this one tried to force players to wait until their 3rd contract to get paid. Problem with that was the "prime years" and players being at to just past what is considered prime which means probably less pay than normal for that 3rd deal. The owners do not want either a lost season or a court battle so I have to think they are done posturing and willing to get busy with a deal that moves a bit toward the players seeing as they are giving up more salary, losing pension money (all the owner offers to date have required the players to fully fund their own retirement), and preventing front loaded deals (and keep in mind this means bonus money becomes FAR less likely or available under any new deal). The owners have to move toward the players and todays news was a start.....now if Bettman doesnt pull one of these " final offer" or "non negotiable" speeches then yes I really think a deal gets done. It will take a few days but they probably have until the 12th to dot the "i"'s and cross the "t"'s so we need to be patient while they play the incredibly stupid game of stare down right to the last second. But with sponsors getting at least somewhat publicly nasty ,you know they have unloaded on Bettman privately and even the network now coming out as unhappy with the owners a deal must be done or they face dire consequences from the money people.

No, the same thing will happen like last month or two. The NHL put up a 50/50 deal to the players. All the fans got excited. The players made a counter proposal that "Offended" the owners. Then.....they stop talking for a while. In this case there is no time to not talk to each other anymore.

Do we wan't them to reach a deal? Yes

Will They? No

Do they care about the fans that includes kids that look up to them? We'll see by mid January

As I reported elsewhere this has been a significant PR flow by technique of the NHL. First to the inevitable 50/50. it would not remember about some thing else, if the NHLPA would not flow immediately to settle for they are going to be considered because the undesirable men. a number of the secondary topics are exciting. Redden etc count number adverse to the cap (they are component to the 50). a clean length of settlement reduce at 5 years, 4 3 hundred and sixty 5 days get admission to point contracts, loose corporation at 8 years or 28, and gross sales sharing will boost to $200MM. yet my wager is gamers will reject for a minimum of a week. more advantageous video games lost and discomfort will boost. NHL received't come any closer, earlier July.

The players will probably be 50-50 about it, but Fehr isn't going to consider this deal at all, just like during the rest of this process so far.

I really hope they do though.

I say yes. There is no time for another exchange of offers. It's this or nothing and neither side will lose an entire season over these details. At least they shouldn't. I hope I won't look liek a fool because of their stupidity

If not they are totally nuts and I hope the NHL disbands. I can't believe the owners conceded so much to them with this offer, if they reject it I doubt they would see another offer this season.

this is probably going to be last deal that we will see this year. If they say no, there will most likely be no hockey til next October. Well see...

I hope so. This as gone on too long.

Do I think they will?

Have to wait and see.

no