Around the League 39: Will Kessel Sign in Winnipeg? The World Waits with Dogged Breath!

[Ole Gil]

The strange thing about his stance is that the issue is with the roster minimum, not the cap. The players can get those jobs back without changing the cap at all.

Guy negotiates crazy salary for top line player causing team to not have space for press box guys. "Why would they do this to these poor players!?!?!"

 

[Big Daddy Cane]

The unfortunate thing for Walsh (not us) is that he’s left to argue with Twitter users about it. The cap isn’t going anywhere. The league and players have little to fight about at 50/50 hard with guaranteed contracts. It’s the logical mid point between the NFL and NBA. CBA negotiations during a once in a century pandemic went pretty smoothly, it seemed like.

 

[Discipline Daddy]

How much has the cap increased since you have been a fan? For me, it's bout tripled. I've seen two new teams join and pay absurd franchise fees. Gary has a lot I disagree with, but making the players more $$ he has done in spades and spades.

 

[DaveG]

How much has the cap increased since you have been a fan? For me, it's bout tripled. I've seen two new teams join and pay absurd franchise fees. Gary has a lot I disagree with, but making the players more $$ he has done in spades and spades.

Yep. As much as he might want to shit on the league and the hard cap, we've gone from a league where maybe 5 teams had any real chance for a solid decade because they out-spent everyone else more than twice over (with 2-3 more spending ineptly like drunken Greek life tools with daddy's Amex black card), to a league with incredible parity where savvy management and good drafting outside round 1 matters the most. Tampa, Carolina, Anaheim, Buffalo, and Calgary might have had some success previously, but it was of the one-off variety.

Now? Teams that were crying poor previously like Chicago and (of all f***ing teams) BOSTON have been among the most successful since the implementation of the cap. One team that was on deaths doorstep has won 3 cups while staying in the city they were all but a lock to leave, and another team that's wasn't long for this world pre cap has become one of the models of how to build a fanbase in a non traditional market. I'm sure if pressed he'd say the cap has been great for teams, including (and especially) some of the teams I described as spending like drunken morons, outside of situations where ownership has been at fault... sometimes deliberately (Atlanta).

 

[cptjeff]

How much has the cap increased since you have been a fan? For me, it's bout tripled. I've seen two new teams join and pay absurd franchise fees. Gary has a lot I disagree with, but making the players more $$ he has done in spades and spades.

Divide by zero error.

But yeah, we went from $39 million at the beginning of the cap era to $83.5. The cap made the league more competitive, which led to a better product, which in turn led to revenue increases for newly competitive smaller market teams, which led to league revenues rising, franchise values rising, and the overall pool of money rising- a lot. It turned out to be good for everybody.

Oh, and remember that 2002 Red Wings super team with a salary nobody would ever match with a Hall of Famer on the 4th line? $65 million. Not quite at the current cap floor, but $4.7m below what *any* team's cap hit is today.

 

[AD Skinner]

Man imagine if the canes could have pulled out that 3ot game in 2002. What a world we might live in now

 

[Svechhammer]

Divide by zero error.

But yeah, we went from $39 million at the beginning of the cap era to $83.5. The cap made the league more competitive, which led to a better product, which in turn led to revenue increases for newly competitive smaller market teams, which led to league revenues rising, franchise values rising, and the overall pool of money rising- a lot. It turned out to be good for everybody.

Oh, and remember that 2002 Red Wings super team with a salary nobody would ever match with a Hall of Famer on the 4th line? $65 million. Not quite at the current cap floor, but $4.7m below what *any* team's cap hit is today.

$65m in 2002 is $110m today, based off inflation.

So yeah, still very high, even by today's standards

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Watching the waiver wires is a good reminder to not get too high on a prospect, nor too upset about missing out on one.

 

[CandyCanes]

Watching the waiver wires is a good reminder to not get too high on a prospect, nor too upset about missing out on one.

SMH still can’t believe we didn’t draft Kiefer Bellows



Canes preseason legend gets a contract

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

I guess sam lafferty is the top 6 winger that Vancouver has coveted

 

[geehaad]

It's times like these (when the Canes sign Aston-Reese to a contract) that I realize how little I know about hockey. That guy was tied for Least Impressive Tryout in my book.

EDIT: dopey me...it's the Red Wings who are desperate, not the Canes.

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

Joel Armia has really fallen far. He is on waivers.

Our friends Zac Dalpe and Mac squared put on waivers today.

 

[AhosDatsyukian]

It's times like these (when the Canes sign Aston-Reese to a contract) that I realize how little I know about hockey. That guy was tied for Least Impressive Tryout in my book.

but we didn't sign him

 

[geehaad]

but we didn't sign him

See, I know nothing about hockey...!

 

[cptjeff]

SMH still can’t believe we didn’t draft Kiefer Bellows



Canes preseason legend gets a contract

I mean, I'm sure that's why he and the other guys signed the PTOs here. Guarantee of ice time to showcase himself to scouts.

 

[TheReelChuckFletcher]

Canes didn't really have the space for ZAR anyways. I didn't have an issue with his game, but we have plenty of very good bottom-sixers. I'm happy for him that the tryout did land him a contract with somebody, so for him and his agent, IMO they accomplished their mission.

I'll be interested to see which of Jones or Coghlan that they will place on the 23-man roster if Coghlan clears. Contrarily, though, I wonder if either Suzuki or Unger Sorum made the team. If Svechnikov is out to start the season, I would love to see either of them get an NHL trial.

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

Canes didn't really have the space for ZAR anyways. I didn't have an issue with his game, but we have plenty of very good bottom-sixers. I'm happy for him that the tryout did land him a contract with somebody, so for him and his agent, IMO they accomplished their mission.

I'll be interested to see which of Jones or Coghlan that they will place on the 23-man roster if Coghlan clears. Contrarily, though, I wonder if either Suzuki or Unger Sorum made the team. If Svechnikov is out to start the season, I would love to see either of them get an NHL trial.

Suzuki is hurt at the moment, no?

 

[TheReelChuckFletcher]

Suzuki is hurt at the moment, no?

Hurricanes' Ryan Suzuki: Injury deemed not serious

Hurricanes' Ryan Suzuki: Injury deemed not serious

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