NHL Players Vote Today

By Helene Elliott

July 21, 2005 12 AM PT

Members of the NHL Players’ Assn. began meeting Wednesday in Toronto and will vote today on the proposed collective bargaining agreement. About 200 of 700 players were expected to attend, with the rest voting by e-mail.

The union invited the league’s top two officials, Commissioner Gary Bettman and Executive Vice President Bill Daly, to appear at a joint news conference after today’s vote. NHL governors will vote Friday in New York.

Agents predicted that players will ratify it. “I think we’re going to be able to maneuver within it,” one prominent agent said. “I’m not going to miss any meals.”

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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