Sask. hockey player resting at home after neck slashed by skate
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'Considering the circumstances ... this is best-case scenario,' Cole Cusitar said.
I’ll never learn.
Almost everyone else was saying, “CFL players will be at their training camps Sunday. They always are. They never go on strike.”
I responded, “This year is different. The CFL Players’ Association is finally going to stand up for its members, not kowtow to the threats and pleas of poverty coming from their CFL teams.’’
Hahahahahaha!
With negotiations reaching the urgent stage for a new collective bargaining agreement, the CFLPA did what it always does: It agreed to the CFL’s offer and recommended it be ratified by the membership.
The CFLPA got a few concessions: Canadian quarterbacks will count in the ratio, health insurance was extended to three years from one year, minimum salaries were increased, American players get year-round work visas, plus some minimal revenue sharing was introduced. We all knew there wouldn’t be an overall increase in salaries and, basically, there wasn’t.
In its 54-year existence, the CFLPA has staged one walkout. Despite its oft-stated desire to be an equal partner with the league, it still isn’t.