Deadlines and Delays — Why Waiting Until the Last Minute Is a Bad Negotiation Strategy

By Bob Wallace, Sports Law Group Chair, Thompson Coburn LLP   How many times, and especially recently, have we heard “nothing will get done until they’re at the deadline”? We heard it during the NFL labor dispute, and now we are hearing it during the NHL work stoppage.   Despite the fact that hundreds of NHL games have been cancelled as of this writing, and the whole season is in jeopardy for the second time in eight years, the power brokers for both the NHL and the NHL Players�