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What is the latest date players can sign contracts?

Under the expired CBA, there was no signing deadline applicable to player contracts. Under the new CBA, Restricted Free Agents who do not sign contracts by December 1 of a given year will be ineligible to play in the League for the balance of that season.

Certainly limits the ability of a player to hold out.

Will there continue to be a Waiver Draft?

The CBA does not provide for the continuation of the Waiver Draft.

With an equal cap number, the Waiver Draft is no longer necessary.

It all looks pretty good to me...now how about some ticket rollbacks?

I dont like the shoot out one bit, its like an NBA game ending in a tie and then the two teams playing HORSE to determine who wins...... shootouts are a fuckin joke.
Id also would have liked to see more emphasis put on punishing divers and less put on guys who drop the gloves, but thie is Bettman hockey, not Old Time Hockey

I'll believe the crackdown on obstruction when I see it, we've been told too many times...."Oh we are going to crack down on obstruction", but by the time January rolls around, its back to clutching and grabbing.

Cross Traffic wrote:I'll believe the crackdown on obstruction when I see it, we've been told too many times...."Oh we are going to crack down on obstruction", but by the time January rolls around, its back to clutching and grabbing.

Quoted for truth.