2026 NHL CBA negotiations, issues

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Bettman says NHL hopes to extend CBA with NHLPA by June, 15 months before expiration

“We think we’re collectively, in terms of the relationship, in a good place.”

www.dailyfaceoff.com

Betrman would like to start negotiations in January and have completed deal by June, months before expiration.

Article mentions a number of potential CBA discussions. Including reducing preseason games to four, and adding two RS games.

Just as a thing, but this rhetoric is vastly different than the rhetoric before any of the lockouts:

“We think we’re collectively, in terms of the relationship, in a good place.”

“My guess is, on either side, we’re not talking about fundamental changes,” Bettman said this weekend on The Varsity podcast with John Ourand. “I think we’re looking at things we’d each like to see improved in the Collective Bargaining Agreement, but I’m not concerned that we’re looking at something will take us down a road nobody wants to go down.”