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BUSINESS, Page 53Business NotesLABOR NEGOTIATIONSPutting a Season on Ice
Hockey players can be brutal on the rink, but at the
bargaining table they have been the softies of the sports world.
No longer: last week the N.H.L. Players Association voted 560 to
4 to stage the first major strike in the league's 75-year
history. The skate-out occurred a week before the Stanley Cup
playoffs -- the most lucrative games of the year -- were to
begin.
Salaries, which average $350,000 in the league, are not
the chief issue. What players mainly want is fewer restrictions
on free agency so they will have more mobility to move from team
to team when their contracts expire. They also want, among other
things, to retain the estimated $10 million a year they receive
from trading cards; team owners have been arguing for contract
language that could give them a bigger piece of that business.
Unfortunately, both sides in the dispute see little chance of
salvaging the play-offs.