Bill Daly
Bill Daly
William "Bill" L. Daly III is an attorney and the current Deputy Commissioner and chief legal officer of the National Hockey Leagueunder Commissioner Gary Bettman. He is also a Hockey Hall of Fame Board Member and former NHL Vice President and Chief Legal Officer. Before joining the NHL front office he worked for the New York law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP. He received his bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College and his law degree from New...
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Contraction is a plan to buy back franchises and essentially put them out of business. We have no interest in contraction as a strategic matter or a bargaining strategy, ... We believe 30 franchises can be healthy given the economic right system. The bottom line is if we don't get the right system, we are at risk of losing franchises.
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It's one way of thanking our fans for sticking with us,
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The way it appears, union leadership now will make a last-minute proposal, possibly as late as September 14 or 15, and characterize it as its 'magnanimous last and best effort to save the season,' ... I am doubtful that the proposal will be a meaningful, bona fide effort to address our problems, which threaten to deprive our fans of a prompt start to the season. If the proposal consists of a repackaged 'status quo' system, it will not work - and will not be acceptable - and union leadership knows it.
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They have the oldest arena in the league, and it doesn't provide the revenues that team needs to stay competitive. It needs to resolve itself in the next couple of months, otherwise they're going to have to look at options.
coming experience kids law
Even with an eighth-grade education, he probably has more experience than some kids coming out of law school.
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It's a great tournament when we have it. Speaking for the NHL clubs, we would like to have another World Cup tournament and make it a regular event. But, obviously, we need the player participation agreement on that point.
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It's two totally different jurisdictions. The bottom line is Bryan has not tested positive as part of the program the league instituted. Bryan appears to have ingested the substance in question before the program was even in place.
fans sticking
It's our way of thanking the fans for sticking with us. It's been a long process.
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It's our way of saying thanks to fans for sticking with us.
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They need to start moving forward in Pittsburgh.
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There was healthy dialogue and progress continued to be made on many operational issues relating to a new collective bargaining agreement. We will resume meeting early next week.
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This is not something we are taking lightly. Given what happened, would we revisit our policy? I would never say never.
believe
No promises, but I do believe that, yes.
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The responses we are getting in-market have been very strong, virtually without exception.