Talk:National Hockey League Players' Association

Free Agents?
When the article says

''[The Owners] also filed an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board, saying that the union has been negotiating in bad faith and that their threat to disclaim interest is a negotiating ploy that violates the collective bargaining process.[5] With the decertification, this would have effectively made all NHL players free agents. ''

it's badly worded. "Decertifying" means that the players are dissolving the union and are free to sign non-union-approved playing contracts with teams (e.g. for lower than the union minimum salary.) When talking about sports, the more common meaning of the phrase "free agent" is "not currently signed to a club, so any club can sign them." Decertifying the union would not have voided current player contracts and allowed players to sign with new clubs.

The NFL Players Association has successfully decertified itself several times, but that did not void any existing player contracts.

68.83.25.36 (talk) 21:51, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

Player reps
This list seems very suspect. Many of these players do not currently play for the teams they are supposedly representing. Tad Lincoln (talk) 03:16, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

Third Intro Paragraph?
That sounds shady to me. I don't know the term, but it's like they wrote it themselves or something. &#8213; Matthew J. Long -Talk-☖  17:57, 29 November 2017 (UTC)


 * I have requested that the article be checked for POV.&#8213; Matthew J. Long -Talk-☖  22:19, 29 November 2017 (UTC)


 * The entire lead section seems to have been copied and pasted from the copyrighted NHLPA website below. 93 (talk) 03:32, 31 December 2018 (UTC)