After 113 days and a 16-hour negotiation marathon that wrapped up at 5am et on Sunday morning, a tentative deal on a new 10-year collective bargaining agreement has been reached between the National Hockey League and NHL Players Association. "Don Fehr and I are here to tell you that we have reached an agreement on the framework of a new collective bargaining agreement, the details of which need to be put to paper," NHL commissioner Gary Bettman confirmed to reporters early Sunday morning. "We have to dot a lot of Is and cross a lot of Ts. There is still a lot of work to be done, but the basic framework has been agreed upon." The next stage is documentation and ratification of the deal, with the start date and number of games in the 2012-13 season still to be announced depending on how long the final process takes. According to TSN Hockey Analyst Pierre LeBrun, the Board of Governors will convene in New York City to vote on the new CBA on Wednesday. "Hopefully were at a place where all those things will proceed fairly rapidly and with some dispatch," said NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr. "Well get back to business as usual just as fast as we can. Hopefully within a very few days the fans can get back to watching people who are skating, not the two of us." TSN Hockey Analyst Pierre LeBrun reported that January 19 is the more probable start date for the season, however if ratification goes quickly January 15 is still in play. According to TSN Hockey Analyst Aaron Ward and TSN Hockey Insiders Darren Dreger and Pierre LeBrun, the agreement features the following elements: - The players share of hockey-related revenue will drop from 57 percent to a 50-50 split for all 10 years. - The league coming off their demand for a $60 million cap in Year 2, meeting the NHLPAs request to have it at $64.3 million - which was the upper limit from last years cap. The salary floor in Year 2 will be $44 million. - The upper limit on the salary cap in the first year is $60 million, but teams can spend up to $70.2 million (all pro-rated). The cap floor will be $44 million. - The 10-year deal also has an opt-out clause that kicks in after eight years. - Each team will be allowed two amnesty buyouts that can be used to terminate contracts after this season and next season. The buyouts will count against the players overall share in revenues, but not the teams salary cap. - The salary variance on contracts from year to year cannot vary more than 35 per cent and the final year cannot vary more than 50 per cent of the highest year. - A player contract term limit for free agents will be seven years and eight years for a team signing its own player. - The draft lottery selection process will change with all 14 teams fully eligible for the first overall pick. The weighting system for each team may remain, but four-spot move restriction will be eliminated. - Supplemental discipline for players in on-ice incidents will go through NHL disciplinarian Brendan Shanahan first, followed by an appeal process that would go through Bettman. For suspensions of six or more games, a neutral third party will decide if necessary. - Revenue sharing among teams will spread to $200 million. Additionally, an NHLPA-initiated growth fund of $60 million is included. - Teams can only walk away from a player in salary arbitration if the award is at least $3.5 million. - The NHL had hoped to change opening of free agency to July 5, but the players stood firm and it remains July 1 in the new agreement. But with a later ending to this season, free agency for this summer will start at a later date. - The NHL is suggesting the trade deadline for this season be April 5. The NHLPA has not yet agreed to it. Last years deadline was February 27. Also, a decision on NHL participation at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games will be made outside of the new CBA. While it is likely that the league will participate, the IIHF and IOC will have discussions with the NHL and Players Association. "I am happy a deal has been reached and excited to get back playing hockey," Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby told LeBrun on Sunday morning. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper also greeted the news with relief. "Glad to see a deal between the #NHL players and the league. Great news for hockey fans and communities across Canada." Harper tweeted. Both sides met face-to-face along with federal mediator Scot Beckenbaugh for 16 straight hours from Saturday afternoon through the early hours of Sunday morning to get the deal done. The two sides spent Friday in separate rooms while Beckenbaugh went back and forth to each group searching for middle ground on the unresolved issues between the two sides. Depending on when a new CBA is reached, the league - according to TSN Hockey Insider Pierre LeBrun - has 50-game and 48-game schedules drawn up. A 50-game season would start on Jan. 15 and a 48-game season would start on Jan. 19. The existing 2012-13 NHL schedule was already canceled through Jan. 14. "Everyone is obviously relieved that its over and done with, for all intents and purposes, and were able to kind of move on to what we kind of enjoy doing a lot more than this," said Phoenix Coyotes captain Shane Doan, who was involved in the negotiations. The NHL and NHLPA had been without a CBA since the previous one expired just before midnight on Sept. 15. The lockout cost the league 510 regular-season games, including the New Years Day Winter Classic and the All-Star Game in Columbus. While the CBA negotiations didnt fall apart and force the cancellation of the season, they certainly brought plenty of drama and frustration for the owners, players and fans. The NHLs first offer tabled on July 13 proposed that the players share in revenue drop from 57 per cent to 43 per cent and suggested contract rule changes with term limits of five years and an extended entry-level system. The league eventually responded with another proposal on Oct. 16 in an effort to preserve an 82-game season with a 50-50 split of revenues. The players responded with three of their own proposals that were quickly rejected. On Dec. 4, Sidney Crosby, Jonathan Toews and four new team executives - including Torontos Larry Tanenbaum and Pittsburghs Ron Burkle - entered the talks, making enough headway for NHLPA special counsel Steve Fehr and NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly to address the media together for the first time. However, things took another turn for the worse when Fehr presented a new proposal that was rejected by the league. 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"I took for granted your support and your love for the Oilers," said Daryl Katz in the open letter. "That was wrong, and I apologize. "The simple fact is that the Oilers need Edmonton, and Edmonton needs the Oilers." Katz and the city are deadlocked over funding for a new proposed downtown arena that is pegged at $475 million but -- when loan payments, land fees and surrounding amenities are factored in -- is actually over $700 million and rising. The two sides are still negotiating to try and strike a deal before the citys deadline of Oct. 17. They actually had a deal last October, with construction set to begin early in 2013. But that went off the rails earlier this month when city councillors were informed in a closed-door meeting that Katz had re-examined the revenue numbers and now needed millions of dollars more per year in public subsidies to keep the team "viable" in the Alberta capital. Councillors rejected the ask, and relations between the two sides turned bitter when word of the new Oiler demands leaked out. Councillors said the Oilers were making unfair demands, while Katz said councillors were reneging on an earlier promise to deliver an extra $6 million a year to him to subsidize arena operating costs. With both sides trading barbs in the media, Edmonton Mayor Stephen Mandel said publicly it was time for the notoriously reclusive Katz to come in public before city council to fully explain how much more money he wants and why he wants it. Katz refused. The acrimony peaked on Monday, when Katz and Oiler brass went to Seattle to meet with the officials about relocating the team to the Pacific Northwest. That same day, Seattle officials signed off on a plan for a US$490-million arena that both sides hope will be home to an NBA and an NHL team. Even though it was last-minute Katz demands that derailed the current Edmonton deal, Katz said Monday it was the lack of a deal with Edmonton that forced him to look elsewhere to places like Seattle and beyond. "This is only prudent and should come as no surprise," said the Katz Group in a news release Monday. The Seattle talks brought anger and indignation in Edmonton, a city that lived through similar relocation threats from former Oilers owner Peter Pocklington in the 1990s yet still lives and breathes the NHL team. Despite being at or near the bottom of the league for three years running, the Katz-led Oilers routinely sell out their current home at Rexall Place. The Oilers dominate sports coverage in print, broadcast and on the Web, even in the dog days of summer. To get to Rexall Place, Edmontonians take Wayne Gretzky Drive. To get into the city from the north, they take Mark Messier Trail. Katz was excoriated in social media and in letters to the editor, labelled a traitor, an extortionist, the second coming of Pocklington, a soulless greedhead. Others told the lifelong Edmontonian and pharmacy billionaire to "hit the road" or "rot in hell." In Saturdays ad, Katz said Seattle was the wrong message to send. "I was upset when certain confidential information was lleaked, and by comments that I thought were unfair and called my integrity into question," he wrote.dddddddddddd. "I reacted by trying to send a message to (Edmonton) city leaders that they should not take my support for a new arena for granted. "The best I can say is that I did it because Im fighting for a deal that will enable the team to stay in Edmonton -- and not because I want them anywhere else." Katz admitted he needs to be more open. "In hindsight I may have underestimated the degree to which it would be up to us to make the case for public funding," he wrote. "Public communications is not in my nature. Chalk that up as a personal shortcoming." Nevertheless, the letter still does not say if the team will -- as the mayor asked -- make its case in public or at city council as to why it needs millions of dollars more in public funds. The letter also doesnt clear up whether the Oilers will still pursue other cities for relocation talks while negotiations continue with Edmonton. The letter also doesnt state if Katz plans to apologize to Seattle officials for using the city as a catspaw in negotiations with Edmonton. The Katz Group declined further comment Saturday, saying it wishes to let the letter "speak for itself." The deal struck by Katz and the city in October 2011 called for a rink with a maximum cost of $450 million. That has since been revised on paper to $475 million, with the added cost shared by both parties. The citys cost is officially $125 million, but councillors have been told that when land acquisition costs, surrounding infrastructure and loan payments are factored in, its share is actually around $400 million-plus. Another $125 million will come from a tax on tickets (about $5 to $6 a ticket). The Oilers were to put up $100 million in construction, but in that was changed in the October deal to the team paying $5.5 million a year in lease payments for three decades. In return, the Oilers would run the arena, pay for its upkeep (estimated at $10 million a year), and keep all revenues from Oiler games, trade shows, concerts, and other events for 11 months out of the year. Concession sales alone are estimated at $20 million a year. The team would also get naming rights for the rink (valued between $1 million and $3 million a year) and $20 million from the city over 10 years for unspecified advertising. Even with all that, the project would still be short by at least $100 million. Both sides hope the provincial government will pony up that amount, but Premier Alison Redford has said such a direct subsidy to a for-profit enterprise like the NHL is not in cards. Katz has said hes losing money on the Oilers in Edmonton and wants a public subsidy deal similar to the one given to NHL teams in Winnipeg and Pittsburgh. Forbes ranks the Oilers in the middle of NHL teams with a worth of $212 million. Katz bought the team in 2008 for $200 million. The proposed new arena would seat 18,400 with restaurants, shops and enough space to hold parties and even beach volleyball tournaments. Drawings depict a wavy, futuristic building of zinc and glass in the rough shape of an oil drop. The Oilers have played in Rexall Place since it was built in 1974. It is one of the oldest rinks in the league. ' ' '