None of the top executives involved in the NHL's collective bargaining negotiations will continue to be paid if the league enacts a lockout next week.
Donald Fehr, the executive director of the NHL Players' Association, says he stopped drawing a salary July 1 and a source said that commissioner Gary Bettman and deputy commissioner Bill Daly plan to follow suit if a new agreement can't be reached by Sept. 15.
It's a practice Fehr adhered to during his time at baseball's union and one his predecessor at the NHLPA, Bob Goodenow, also followed in the 2004-05 lockout.
"It's both a measure of solidarity and uniformity of interest," Fehr said Thursday.
For Bettman and Daly, it marks a different approach. They were each paid through 2004-05.
On Thursday, the NHL and NHLPA both indicated that talks are on the verge of resuming, possibly today. The sides haven't met since last week.
