Strike Continues as NHL, Officials Remain Snagged Over Benefits

By HELENE ELLIOTT

Nov. 25, 1993 12 AM PT

A demand by NHL game officials for $750,000 in benefits, nearly as much as the $850,000 in salary they would gain over a four-year deal, has sent the strike by referees and linesmen into its 11th day, with no end in sight.

Jeff Pash, the NHL’s senior vice president and general counsel, said Wednesday that the league and the officials are in accord on salary, insurance and severance pay, but progress had halted when the officials specified the amount of the benefits increase.

Don Meehan, who represents the NHL Officials Assn., called the $750,000 a concession because it’s 50% less than his first proposal.

Pash and Meehan talked briefly Wednesday but did not schedule another meeting.

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

Strike Continues as NHL, Officials Remain Snagged Over Benefits

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