The NHL collective bargaining agreement (CBA) is the basic contract between the National Hockey League (NHL) team owners and the NHL Players Association (NHLPA), designed to be arrived at through the typical labor-management negotiations of collective bargaining. The most recent agreement, tentatively reached on July 13, 2005 after a labor dispute which caused the cancellation of the 2004–05 season, was ratified by the NHLPA membership on July 21 and by the league's Board of Governors the following day on July 22. This CBA expired on September 15, 2012, starting the 2012 NHL lockout.
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