Full text of NHL/NHLPA MOU for new 2020 CBA - analysis and discussion

[LadyStanley]

Most of the time, I see teams with at least a day off at home before first game.

16.5 demands minimum four days off/month, with two of those days on the road.

16.8 is about day-of-game required travel (more than 2.5 hours -> travel day before).

But I do not see any restrictions (2013 version) that mention anything about crossing time zones relating to travel buffers.

 

[LadyStanley]

BTS trade call

 

[mouser]

So I was under the impression that according to the CBA, that if you crossed more than one time zone for an away game, the road trip had to last at least three games, or something to that effect. However, Utah is playing in Detroit tonight followed by Chicago tomorrow night before coming back home. We had last played at home against New Jersey on Saturday. In that case, am I mistaken, or are there exceptions to the rule based on how many days off you have before and/or after the road trip?

There are no road trip time zone constraints in the CBA proper so far as I’m aware.

The NHL certainly has policies on scheduling road trips. It’s possible the NHL and PA have collectively bargained aditional scheduling rules outside of the CBA itself, but with the full power as if they were part of the CBA.

If you asked me to guess, I suspect there are agreed upon non-binding scheduling guidelines with the PA that the NHL does its best to observe. Sometimes that might not be possible or practical for the schedulers to honor.

 

[LadyStanley]

 

[LadyStanley]

 

[uncleben]

Pisses me off when they say $5,000 is the max, when they really mean "we can't be assed to even pick up the phone"

 

[LadyStanley]

A number of players don't earn enough to go above the $5k max.

 

[LadyStanley]

 

[ES]

The thing with fines is that the maximum salary is so small. As far as I know, the standard fine is half of daily salary, but not going over $5000.

Player getting suspended (not a repeat offender) loses one day of salary. Auston Matthews had highest cap hit this season, so here's a comparison on hypothetical scenario of him getting suspended or fined compared to player with minimum salary.

Player with minimum salary fined: $1965.81
Auston Matthews fined: $5000

Players with minimum salary suspended one game: $3931.63
Auston Matthews suspended one game: $67948.72

 

[uncleben]

The thing with fines is that the maximum salary is so small. As far as I know, the standard fine is half of daily salary, but not going over $5000.

Player getting suspended (not a repeat offender) loses one day of salary. Auston Matthews had highest cap hit this season, so here's a comparison on hypothetical scenario of him getting suspended or fined compared to player with minimum salary.

Player with minimum salary fined: $1965.81
Auston Matthews fined: $5000

Players with minimum salary suspended one game: $3931.63
Auston Matthews suspended one game: $67948.72

Matthews could be fined $10,000 if they gave him a hearing first, and $15,000 if he was a repeat offender and given a hearing.
(And the lowest possible fine this year is $1,996.53 - based on the lowest extant contract, $766,667, and 192 days in the season this year)

But even then, the discrepancy between $1,996.53 and $15,000 (751% difference) is a joke compared to the discrepancy between a cap hit of $766,667 and $13,250,000 (1728% difference).