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The Evolution Of The CBA
by Paul on 08/01/09 at 12:00 PM ET
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from Allen Panzeri of the Ottawa Citizen,
With about six weeks left before National Hockey League training camps open, dozens of players are still looking for jobs. Their agents are busy these days, sending out résumés and calling general managers.
Some players will be lucky, but many won’t.
It is part of the price they paid to end the season-long, 2004-05 lockout. Of course, it wasn’t clear initially this would be a byproduct of the new collective bargaining agreement.
But the introduction of the salary cap, which was NHL commissioner Bettman’s price for peace, ultimately brought with it a vicious, mid-summer scramble for jobs.
Those left without work after teams reached the salary-cap limit would be out of luck, like the loser in a real-life game of musical chairs.
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