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Quote from: Arn on February 03, 2023, 04:02:17 AMI mean the season ends when the season ends.
That's why they call the playoffs the "post season". Because they're after the season. It's in the name.
I'd take performance in an 82 game sample as more representative of an overall performance level of a team than a playoff lottery.
Quote from: RedLeaf on February 03, 2023, 09:33:48 AMI don't know about being a Canucks fan but I can certainly empathize with this poor guy, being a Leafs fan for 45 years now...
Russell Atkins wanted 6 Canucks to be his pallbearers 'SO THEY COULD LET HIM DOWN ONE MORE TIME'
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/frustrated-vancouver-canucks-fan-gets-the-last-laugh-in-his-obituary-1.6734775
Quote from: Bender on February 03, 2023, 09:19:42 AMQuote from: Arn on February 03, 2023, 04:13:04 AMI'm not sure as people have intimated that a change of commissioner would make much difference.
The hard salary cap and parity are the things I kind of see as the main problems. I get the argument for cost control and so on, but I definitely think some kind of luxury tax system, or even something like the MLS system where you can pay 1 or 2 players "outside" the salary cap would have helped.
Can you imagine if there was some way in which McDavid and Matthews could end up on the same team? Surely that sells hockey better than Arizona being "competitive"?
And at the end of the day bad teams still can be bad and choose to tank. Chicago, Columbus, Anaheim, Arizona, San Jose, Montreal etc. are not competitive at all.
Quote from: RedLeaf on February 03, 2023, 09:33:48 AMI don't know about being a Canucks fan but I can certainly empathize with this poor guy, being a Leafs fan for 45 years now...
Russell Atkins wanted 6 Canucks to be his pallbearers 'SO THEY COULD LET HIM DOWN ONE MORE TIME'
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/frustrated-vancouver-canucks-fan-gets-the-last-laugh-in-his-obituary-1.6734775
Quote from: bustaheims on February 03, 2023, 10:31:41 AMUsing up all that cap space would just mean larger portions of player pay cheques go to escrow. The cap system is set up with the understanding that a number of teams won't hit the ceiling. Total player salaries are still capped at 50% of HRR, regardless of how much cap space is used - and, if all the cap space available was used, it would significantly exceed the 50% ceiling on total player salaries.
Quote from: Arn on February 03, 2023, 04:02:17 AMI mean the season ends when the season ends.
That's why they call the playoffs the "post season". Because they're after the season. It's in the name.
I'd take performance in an 82 game sample as more representative of an overall performance level of a team than a playoff lottery.
Quote from: louisstamos on February 03, 2023, 10:09:55 AMFor me - if the NHL is adamant on a hard cap system, there is close to $80 million in unused cap around the league. Have teams be able to trade their unused cap space.
It works threefold - the players like it because that means extra money spent on salaries that is not being used at the moment. Cap ceiling teams can acquire cap in order to make trades/improve their team. Cap floor teams can get assets back for cap space they probably aren't going to use anyway (or cash, but I doubt the NHL would ever allow that).
Quote from: Arn on February 03, 2023, 04:13:04 AMI'm not sure as people have intimated that a change of commissioner would make much difference.
The hard salary cap and parity are the things I kind of see as the main problems. I get the argument for cost control and so on, but I definitely think some kind of luxury tax system, or even something like the MLS system where you can pay 1 or 2 players "outside" the salary cap would have helped.
Can you imagine if there was some way in which McDavid and Matthews could end up on the same team? Surely that sells hockey better than Arizona being "competitive"?
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