The NHL Players' Association and the National Hockey League have wrapped up their collective bargaining meeting for the day after NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr and the union presented a counter-proposal to the NHL.
Fehr had hoped to table a counter-proposal Thursday but instead called off the session to devote more time to drafting it.
The union received detailed team-by-team financial information from the 2011-12 season this week and spent Thursday combing through it.
It also had a new NHL proposal to work off of while coming up with a counter offer. On Tuesday, the league tabled a six-year contract that would see the players' share in revenue reduced to 46 per cent -- something that didn't hold much appeal for the union.
However, the league viewed its second offer as a significant improvement on the initial proposal it tabled July 13, which called for players to receive a 43 per cent share and introduced a number of new contract restrictions.
With a Sept. 15 deadline looming for a lockout, deputy commissioner Bill Daly expressed hope Thursday the players would be motivated to sweeten the offer they made two weeks ago.
"We're hopeful it's a meaningful proposal that we can continue to make progress from," he said. "We feel like we made a good step in that direction earlier this week and we hope that they would make a step forward as well."
Fehr was not made available to the media Thursday, but Detroit Red Wings player Danny Cleary told Mlive.com "It (the NHL proposal) was a pig with lipstick on, instead of a pig."
Ron Hainsey and Henrik Zetterberg joined Donald and Steve Fehr on the NHLPA side for Friday's meeting.
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