{"id":142108,"date":"2025-09-13T23:36:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T23:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/142108\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T23:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T23:36:12","slug":"former-nhlpa-executive-director-bob-goodenow-passes-at-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/142108\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NHLPA executive director Bob Goodenow passes at 72"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Former NHL Players\u2019 Association executive director Bob Goodenow, who held the post for 13 years and led players through two long work stoppages, has died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The NHLPA said in a release that Goodenow died suddenly at age 72. A cause of death was not given.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Goodenow became the NHLPA\u2019s second executive director in 1992, succeeding Alan Eagleson who had stepped down amid allegations of fraud.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He led players through a 103-day lockout that lasted from Oct. 1, 1994, to Jan. 11, 1995 and saw the season shortened to 48 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">At issue was the implementation of a salary cap, which owners wanted and players opposed. The issue came to a head again with the lockout that wiped out the 2004-05 NHL season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The lockout was resolved on July 13, 2005, with the implementation of a salary cap, as well as a salary floor and a guarantee that players would get 54 per cent of total NHL revenues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Shortly after the agreement was reached, Goodenow was asked to step down as NHLPA executive director and was replaced by Ted Saskin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Goodenow was born in Dearborn, Mich., on Oct. 29, 1952. He graduated from Harvard University in 1974 and from the University of Detroit Law School in 1979.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 13, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former NHL Players\u2019 Association executive director Bob Goodenow, who held the post for 13 years and led players&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[76261,49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-142108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-76261","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}