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Maine Mariners to resume games with ECHL contract ratified
The five-year deal boosts player pay and health protections while ending a strike that delayed dozens of games, resuming the 2025-26 season promptly, ECHL officials said.
- On Tuesday, the ECHL and the Professional Hockey Players' Association ratified a new Collective Bargaining Agreement that will extend through the 2029-30 season.
- Following stalled talks that produced postponed games between Dec. 26 and Dec. 29, the Professional Hockey Players' Association and the ECHL ratified a new agreement recently, ending a weekend strike.
- After bargaining over pay, time off and NIL, the agreement significantly increases player compensation and health and safety provisions, the league said.
- With the ratification, the 2025-26 ECHL regular season resumes on Tuesday night and the Maine Mariners return to play Wednesday, while teams offer box office refund or replacement-ticket procedures to fans.
- The strike marked the league's first in-season work stoppage, with players citing alleged unfair labor practices; leagues say postponed games will be made up, including Jan. 2-4 at Cross Insurance Arena.
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ECHL, PHPA ratify new agreement; Games resume on Tuesday
SHREWSBURY, N.J. – The ECHL and the Professional Hockey Players’ Association (PHPA) announced today that both parties have ratified an agreement on a new five-year Collective Bargaining Agreement. “This new agreement ratified by both the ECHL and the Professional Hockey Players’ Association significantly increases player compensation, improves health and safety and delivers on new initiatives that are responsive to our players’ needs, while supp…
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