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A Few Comments On The Arbitrator's Kovalchuk Decision

I'm a little surprised at how "short but sweet" the opinion is. The argument [arbitrator Richard Bloch] makes -- or I guess the one he accepts -- is pretty much exactly the one I laid out ("The League's Case"), but it's interesting how simply the whole thing lays out, and how much the NHLPA hung their whole case on the letter/spirit dichotomy. It sums up like this:

NHLPA:  The CBA doesn't explicitly say you can't do this.

Arbitrator: True.

NHLPA: So we're done here.

Arbitrator: False.

NHLPA: But that's all we've got.

Arbitrator: Okay, now we're done.

 

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by Patssuck456 on Aug 10, 2010 8:34 PM EDT reply actions  

I know this is a bit late, but...

There was more to it than that. Not just “NHLPA: The CBA doesn’t explicitly say you can’t do this.”, but also “and you also let half a dozen other teams do it over the last few years.” Then the NHL’s response was “So what? We can be as hypocritical as we want.”

by njdss4 on Aug 29, 2010 12:06 PM EDT reply actions  

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