Talks between locked out National Hockey league players and owners are continuing into Thursday night and could go into Friday. So far, details of what they have discussed have not been disclosed. 721 of 1,230 have been cancelled this season.
Last December the union proposed a 24% rollback of contracts along with a system for luxury taxes. The owners countered with a salary cap system which the union said it would never buy into. Talks have been stuck in a gridlock ever since.
Union chief Bob Goodenow and commissioner Gary Bettman have not participated in the last 4 negotiating sessions. Vancouver center Trevor Linden suggested only 6 people meet and discussion appears to have occurred. No one knows what has been said.
