CBA Agreement Reached

[maplesyrup]

'night folks... Going to bed expecting nothing to happen which probably means I'll miss a bunch...  :-\ and to think, this time next week, we'll be chatting in GDT and MotM threads. 

 

[Britishbulldog]

TSNBobMcKenzie: In a 48-game schedule, there'll be no play between conferences. East plays East and West plays West. But here's the schedule matrix for 48:

TSNBobMcKenzie: Each team plays: 4 games vs. two Divisional opponents (8 ); 5 games vs. two divisional opponents (10); 3 games vs 10 Conference rivals (30).

Please let Boston be one of the "only 4 times" division teams...

So Montreal and Ottawa seem to be the 5 game divisional opponents and Boston and Buffalo seem to be the 4 times divisional opponents.

Cool!

 

[Justin]

TSNBobMcKenzie: In a 48-game schedule, there'll be no play between conferences. East plays East and West plays West. But here's the schedule matrix for 48:

TSNBobMcKenzie: Each team plays: 4 games vs. two Divisional opponents (8 ); 5 games vs. two divisional opponents (10); 3 games vs 10 Conference rivals (30).

Please let Boston be one of the "only 4 times" division teams...

So Montreal and Ottawa seem to be the 5 game divisional opponents and Boston and Buffalo seem to be the 4 times divisional opponents.

Cool!

Couldn't have worked out any better. Toronto was 6-6 vs. Ottawa and Montreal last year. 3-8-1 vs. Buffalo and Boston.

 

[Bullfrog]

Some interesting points of the CBA:

Yahoo Sports: 10 interesting highlights from the NHL?s new CBA

I'm trying to understand the implications of this one:

Re-entry waivers has been eliminated. No more half-price discounts

Are eligible call-ups still subject to being claimed on waivers, just at full price?

 

[bustaheims]

Are eligible call-ups still subject to being claimed on waivers, just at full price?

No. There's no more waivers on the way up from the AHL, just on the way down to the AHL.

 

[BlueWhiteBlood]

Are eligible call-ups still subject to being claimed on waivers, just at full price?

No. There's no more waivers on the way up from the AHL, just on the way down to the AHL.

I like it!

 

[maplesyrup]

Do we still have to wait until noon the next day to make the claim? There's some rumors going around that we made a claim (or at least we might.)

@koshtorontosun
#Leafs have not claimed F Steve MacIntyre off waivers. Could happen, but nothing official right now.   

 

[bustaheims]

Do we still have to wait until noon the next day to make the claim? There's some rumors going around that we made a claim (or at least we might.)

@koshtorontosun
#Leafs have not claimed F Steve MacIntyre off waivers. Could happen, but nothing official right now. 

Claims have always been able to be made the second the waiver list has been announced. The results of claims will still not be clear until noon the next day. The only change here was that weekend waivers don't last 48 hours anymore.

Anyone saying a team has claimed a player isn't necessarily wrong. It's just that, at this point, it doesn't mean the team will be awarded the player. Nothing's changed there.

 

[maplesyrup]

Check.

 

[Bullfrog]

Are eligible call-ups still subject to being claimed on waivers, just at full price?

No. There's no more waivers on the way up from the AHL, just on the way down to the AHL.

Oh good, scrapped altogether. That's better. Thanks for clarifying.

 

[WhatIfGodWasALeaf]

Are eligible call-ups still subject to being claimed on waivers, just at full price?

No. There's no more waivers on the way up from the AHL, just on the way down to the AHL.

Oh good, scrapped altogether. That's better. Thanks for clarifying.

I like that a lot, I think a lot of guys who could have been playing in the NHL stayed in the AHL during the last CBA because teams did not feel like they'd clear re-entry waivers.

 

[Derk]

Almost two months later, fans have all but forgotten the lockout and have come back to the projected tune of $2.4 billion in revenues for the shortened season.

I guess we should count ourselves lucky that the next lockout won't be until 2020.