NHLPA offer: Won’t eliminate salary cap, deemed “better than expected” and “interesting”

While waiting on specifics of what was included in the NHLPA’s “alternative view” to the NHL’s original CBA proposal, here are a few of the early reports, thoughts and impressions from Twitter.

First, an interesting note from RDS’ Renaud P Lavoie:

NHLPA won’t ask the NHL to get rid of the salary cap system. Important step to make sure they’ll be hockey at one point this season.

— Renaud P Lavoie (@RenLavoieRDS) August 14, 2012

In terms of how the offer was received, here’s TSN NHL analyst Aaron Ward:

Sense is the NHL believes todays proposal from the NHLPA was better than what was expected. No details on proposal yet.#CBA #TSN

— Aaron Ward (@aaronward_nhl) August 14, 2012

First impression of NHLPA proposal was that it was not a ‘counter attack’ in response to the League’s July 13th proposal. #TSN

— Aaron Ward (@aaronward_nhl) August 14, 2012

Second impression was that it possessed economic elements that were ‘interesting’ to the League. #TSN

— Aaron Ward (@aaronward_nhl) August 14, 2012

We’ll have more on the NHLPA offer shortly.