NHLPA close to narrowing candidates for Fehr successor

Exec Dir Don Fehr joined the NHLPA in December 2010, negotiating CBAs in 2013 and 2020Alex Cooper/USA TODAY NETWORK

The NHLPA will “apparently narrow its list of candidates to succeed Don Fehr as executive director at a meeting of the search committee during the All-Star festivities on Feb. 3 and Feb. 4,” according to Larry Brooks of the N.Y. POST. The union last spring began the search; Rangers D and search committee member Jacob Trouba said it is “not ideal that it’s taken this long but, first, that’s the function of the schedule and we want to make sure we get it right.” Brooks noted these issues would “include the possibility of smoothing a cap increase over the next three years” rather than maintaining a flat-cap $1M increase for next season under terms of the collective bargaining agreement and of “expanding the schedule from 82 to 84 games in order to accommodate an extra pair of intradivision matchups” (N.Y. POST, 12/31).