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Originally Posted by nik-
You mean contracting the team as a reward to the NHLPA? Because that's the only way I could see this being leveraged. They're not going to hang it over the union's head as a threat piece for lost jobs, because the NHLPA doesn't care about the things a normal union does.
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The threat of contraction did work for MLB in 2002. It even made Donald Fehr avoid a work stoppage.
MLB essentially green lit the contraction of Minnesota and Montreal and eventually pulled it off the table as part of their negotiations.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/bas...twinsexpos_ap/
I think it would work well.