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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
Without it being in the CBA the players have zero influence on the negotiations between the NHL and the IOC
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If it was anyone else, I would be stating "you aren't that naive".
How much influence the NHLPA could have had if it added its voice to the NHL's position rather than undermine it is an unknown. However, the CBA is not relevant to that part. In terms of the NHL and NHLPA making its own deal, they could have done so as a modification of the CBA or as a separate arrangement - which the 2014 agreement technically was, iirc.