ARTICLE 22: COMPETITION COMMITTEE
22.1 The NHL and NHLPA will establish a Player/Club Competition Committee (the "Competition Committee") for the purpose of examining and making recommendations associated with issues affecting the game and the way the game is played. The issues to be considered by the Competition Committee will include: (1) the development, change, and enforcement of Playing Rules; (2) Player equipment regulations and standards; (3) Player dressing room and in-arena facility standards; (4) the scheduling of games played outside a team's home arena and facility standards relating to said games (e.g., "outdoor" games, neutral site games, etc.); and (5) issues relating to schedule, compression and start times for games. By mutual agreement the NHL and NHLPA can expand the issues to be considered by the Competition Committee.
22.2 The Competition Committee will consist of up to ten (10) voting members, including five (5) active Players to be designated by the NHLPA and five (5) Club officials to be designated by the NHL. One NHLPA official (plus up to one advisor) and one NHL official (plus up to one advisor) shall also participate on the Committee, but shall not have voting rights. The members of the Competition Committee will be selected and the length of their terms fixed under such rules as the NHLPA and the NHL separately establish.
22.3 The Competition Committee will hold meetings on dates and sites mutually agreeable to the Committee members. It will be the intention of the parties to convene full meetings of the Competition Committee at least twice a year, which meetings likely will be held in and around NHL All-Star weekend and the Stanley Cup Finals. The Chairman of the Committee shall designate an individual to record minutes of each meeting. A total of eight (8) voting members made up of at least four (4) Players and four (4) Club officials shall constitute a quorum for purposes of transacting business, and conducting possible votes on agenda items, although meetings for general discussion can still be conducted with fewer than eight (8) voting members present.
22.4 It will be the role and purpose of the Competition Committee to evaluate and make recommendations on matters relating to the game and the way the game is played, including with respect to all matters detailed in Section 22.1 above, and any other matter that may be brought to the Competition Committee's attention with the consent of the NHL and the NHLPA.
22.5 Fourteen (14) days prior to any meeting of the Competition Committee, the Chairman of the meeting shall circulate a detailed agenda that reflects the specific proposals that will be discussed and acted upon by the Committee. Prior to the meeting, either the NHL or the NHLPA may provide written notice that it does not approve of any specific agenda item. If such a notice of disapproval is provided, the Competition Committee may discuss, but no vote may be taken on, the specific agenda item that has been objected to (the "disapproved agenda item").
22.6 Recommendations made by the Competition Committee that have the support of a two-thirds majority of all voting Competition Committee members will be submitted for consideration by the NHL Board of Governors. Recommendations will become effective only if approved by the NHL Board of Governors in accordance with the NHL Constitution and By-Laws.
2.7 Any recommendations made by the Competition Committee that are consistent with its mandate as described in Section 22.1 above and subsequently approved by the NHL Board of Governors may not be subject to a subsequent challenge by the NHLPA under the CBA, or pursuant to any other applicable provision of contract or law, unless the recommendation(s) approved by the Board of Governors related to "disapproved agenda item(s)," or other matters beyond the scope of the Competition Committee's pre-meeting agenda.
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