{"id":71093,"date":"2025-12-26T19:25:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T19:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/71093\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T19:25:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T19:25:05","slug":"echl-says-it-made-final-offer-amid-reading-royals-strike-talks-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/71093\/","title":{"rendered":"ECHL says it made \u201cfinal offer\u201d amid Reading Royals strike talks | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"

READING, Pa.\u00a0\u2013 The ECHL, the minor professional ice hockey league, released a statement on Friday in response to the talks of a possible strike for the Reading Royals.<\/a><\/p>\n

In the press release, ECHL claims they make its \u201clast, best, and final offer to the Professional Hockey Players\u2019 Association (PHPA).\u201d<\/p>\n

The ECHL says they made it clear to union leadership that this was the best offer and that any future offers likely will need to account for losses in revenue attributable to missed games from a player strike.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn offer that would dramatically raise player salaries by 20 percent in the first year, boost the per-diem rate, guarantee more off days, and expand the top-of-the-line equipment available to players,\u201d the most recent ECHL X post reads.<\/p>\n

While the release says they did not receive a formal response from PHPA, ECHL has heard from certain players that they will not be reporting for their scheduled games.<\/p>\n

“The longer this goes on, it becomes impossible to play all the games, and so you might see outright game cancellations,” said\u00a0Larry Miller Jr., managing partner with the Miller Law Group.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did everything possible to avoid this outcome, and hope that the union leadership will drop its unworkable scheduling demands, let the players vote on our offer, and make it possible for players to return to work,\u201d reads the end of ECHL\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa.\u00a0\u2013 The ECHL, the minor professional ice hockey league, released a statement on Friday in response to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[36466,37366,128,130,129,23405],"class_list":{"0":"post-71093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-echl","9":"tag-professional-hockey-players","10":"tag-reading-city","11":"tag-reading-city-headlines","12":"tag-reading-city-news","13":"tag-reading-royals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}