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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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With the last CBA, the original term was until 2011, but the PA alone had the option of either terminating it 2 years early in 2009 (which they declined) or extending it by a year to 2012 (which they did). The last CBA worked well for the players, so they wanted to keep it going as long as they could.
The league didn't have the option to end the last CBA early, otherwise, they may have chosen to do so.
I'm not sure what the pre-2004 CBA said.