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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
If the PA declines its option, and a lockout results, won't that be the first time it's happened that way? My recall is that previous CBAs just expired, and nobody triggered an option to have them end early.
If that's the case, this might be the first lockout where the PA starts out as the "bad guys" who are clearly "to blame" for there being no hockey. That's a whole different thing than previously.
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They can't. If the NHL and the NHLPA both don't opt-out, the CBA is in force until 2022 and the CBA bans strikes and lockouts.