NHL lockout Sides have frank exchange of views on hockey revenu

NHL talks continued on Saturday, this time talking about hockey-related revenue. (U.S. Pre swire) For the second consecutive day the NHL and NHLPA met in New York in an effort to work out a new collective bargaining agreement. After focusing like drug testing and player safety, the discu sion on Saturday at least seemed to shift back to Dallas Stars Jersey the biggest i sue still separating the two sides -- the split of hockey-related revenue.While neither side made a new proposal, and it doesn't appear percentages of revenue were discu sed, NHLPA special counsel Steve Fehr said that the two sides had a " " on the of hockey-related revenue. And that's at least something.NHL LockoutNHL lockout started Sept. 15More NHL coverage | | | Along with coming to an agreement on how that revenue should be split among the teams and players, the sides also have had different views on what that hockey-revenue pot consists of. Before they can agree on how to divide it, they first must agree on what exactly they're going to be dividing.In the last CBA, which expired on Sept. 15, the players received 57 percent of the revenue split. Fehr added, , that it's positive the two sides are talking but it has been a "very up-and-down proce s."The most positive development on Saturday wasn't just that the sides were still talking and will continue to do so on Sunday, but that they focused, at least in some small part, on the biggest i sue still remaining. Hockey won't start again until the revenue split is agreed upon, and they won't agree until they actually start talking about it.Commi sioner Gary Bettman and NHLPA leader Donald Fehr had their own one-on-one meeting on Saturday and could meet individually again on Sunday. "I spent a few minutes with Gary talking about the overall situation, and we agreed to keep in touch," said Fehr on Saturday via the A sociated Pre s."I am not going to talk about the specifics but, in general, we're trying to discu s how do we find a way to make an agreement. How do we bridge the gap on the major i sues that are between us?"This weekend was the first time the sides sat down in more than two weeks since the lockout began. . Ed Belfour Jersey