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Fehr On The Lockout

11/17/2012 at 7:28am EST

from CBC,

Fehr revealed there were conversations between staff Friday, but no negotiations with the NHL.

The lockout has now reached Day 62. The two sides have been unable to agree on the division of money, proposed changes to player contract rights and who pays for the damange caused by the lockout.

When HNIC Radio asked Fehr about the perception that the league has made more concessions than the union, he took exception.

"I gotta tell ya that it’s a pretty bizarre world in which you would reach the conclusion that the NHL has made the concessions. They asked for massive salary reductions. The players agreed to reduce their salaries over time, even under our initial proposal in a fashion which would have been worth hundreds of millions of dollars to the owners.

"And when you measure all the central economic issues and you measure it from the vantage point of the last agreement, has the bargaining moved in the direction of the players or the owners? The answer is it’s moved in the direction of the owners. The only way the owners have made a concession is if you treat seriously the notion that we made a first proposal which was horrible, terrible and miserable, and our second proposal was only horrible and terrible, so we moved in a new direction."

more and you can listen (autoplay is on) to the Fehr interview below...

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