Players demand to know what will happen to their salaries for 2020-21!

You are absolutely right. We don’t know when the 2020-21 season will even begin. We don’t know if they’ll even be a 2020-21 campaign, how long it will be, where it will take place, with or without fans… We get it, we know nothing. 

That didn’t stop players from wondering about their salaries and wondering how and when they will get paid if they have the chance to play in 2021. This is how senior hockey writer Frank Seravalli explained it on last night’s Insider Trading on TSN: 

“Every single player in the National Hockey League wants to know the answer to what happens to player salaries? Will they be prorated in the event of a shortened season? And there really is no answer to this point. The NHLPA has been operating on the belief this entire time that as soon as the players play one game in the 2020-21 season, that they will receive all of their stated salary minus 20 per cent for escrow and 10 per cent for a salary deferral. But at this point, there’s been very little talk.

“The two sides have not yet met to begin to hash out these plans. The league has remained quiet. It doesn’t explicitly say in the memorandum of understanding for this collective bargaining agreement what happens in the event of a shortened season. So stay tuned, this could be a real bone of contention at some point in the future moving forward. Something that both of these sides jointly say they’re going to have to discuss.”

It’s always about money!