{"id":375268,"date":"2025-12-28T04:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T04:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/375268\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T04:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T04:46:09","slug":"echl-players-union-reach-tentative-new-cba-deal-ending-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/375268\/","title":{"rendered":"ECHL, players&#8217; union reach tentative new CBA deal, ending strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dec 27, 2025, 09:52 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>The ECHL and the Professional Hockey Players&#8217; Association have a tentative agreement on a new collective bargaining agreement to end <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/story\/_\/id\/47421851\/echl-postpones-13-games-players-go-strike\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a strike that lasted two days<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The league and the union on Saturday night announced the deal that still needs to be ratified by the board of governors and the full player membership. A total of 28 games had been postponed Friday and Saturday since the PHPA went on strike.<\/p>\n<p>The sides released no details about the CBA that they believe will bring players back to work. They had been engaged in talks since January.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear when play would resume in the 30-team North American minor hockey league that is two tiers below the NHL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec 27, 2025, 09:52 PM ET The ECHL and the Professional Hockey Players&#8217; Association have a tentative agreement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-375268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}