The Hockey News’s David Alter explains why the NHLPA hasn’t released the dates of players’ salary arbitration hearings this week:
The National Hockey League Players’ Association (NHLPA) is set to begin arbitration cases as soon as Saturday. But as for when those cases will occur, that will be up to agents, teams, and of course, hockey insider leaks as cases are either settled or awarded.
The NHLPA, which runs the process, has previously released an entire schedule of cases by day for each player approximately a week before the cases were set to begin. This year, however, they have elected not to do so.
“There’s been a change in approach,” a source told The Hockey News on Thursday.
That means you likely won’t hear about hearings or awards until after they were settled either in arbitration or before the cases are seen before an arbitrator. The NHLPA will hold arbitration cases between July 20 and Aug. 4.
Continued; I know that the idea here is to give the players some anonymity and some peace of mind here, but this doesn’t make any sense to me.
