Salary Cap: Bettman: w/ record revenue of 5.2B NHL CAP should be back to normal growth in 2-3 seasons

[Malagahawks]

We should be able to finally be reaping rewards hopefully from the rebuild and all this dead money off the books.

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[Mrfenn92]

nice

 

[Drumman44]

What's "normal growth"? 2006 - 2008? There has been very little appreciable growth since the Blackhawks won their last cup in 2015 and a whole lot of "exceptions"

19% total growth from 2015 - 2022

 

[CharasLazyWrister]

Crazy to see that 39 million figure as the cap ceiling the first year it was implemented.

Weren’t the Wings and Avalanche spending around 80 million each in the late 90s?

 

[TheFridge]

What's "normal growth"? 2006 - 2008? There has been very little appreciable growth since the Blackhawks won their last cup in 2015 and a whole lot of "exceptions"

19% total growth from 2015 - 2022


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The cap grew by 12 million 5 years before Covid. It grew by 12 million in the 5 years preceding 2014-15. Seems like normal growth is just over 2M per year.

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Most important thing to do the next three years is weaponize the cap by retaining bad contracts for a year or two in order to get better picks as parts of trades. Hopefully this helps facilitate that.

Also, record revenues, and the league will be adding jersey ads. Greedy bastards.

 

[DisgruntledHawkFan]

What's "normal growth"? 2006 - 2008? There has been very little appreciable growth since the Blackhawks won their last cup in 2015 and a whole lot of "exceptions"

19% total growth from 2015 - 2022


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Median growth would be around two and a half million dollars and that's with Covid stalling growth the last four seasons.

Curious how much escrow the players will owe

 

[DisgruntledHawkFan]

Most important thing to do the next three years is weaponize the cap by retaining bad contracts for a year or two in order to get better picks as parts of trades. Hopefully this helps facilitate that.

Also, record revenues, and the league will be adding jersey ads. Greedy bastards.

Are you implying Rocky doesn't own the Blackhawks simply for his love of the game?

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Are you implying Rocky doesn't own the Blackhawks simply for his love of the game?

He likes having a platform for petulant outbursts at the media, too.

 

[hawksfan50]

Well tgexsucjers kept filling seats on Vhicago despite the dreadful team...as it Tanks this season and ifctgey trade D-Catcand maybe T and K...tgere xoukd be no bodies in the seats...Mr. -37 could be -100 with no goaliectovsteal games.

So revenues should drop just because Chicago many suffer huge attendance losses....Unless tge gambling revenue cuts the NHL are so huge conung in that nobody even needs to attend any games anymore forvtge cap to go up..


So not sure how much NHL got from its gambling cit thisviadt season...

Also if recession and food shortages are coming that coukd dampen all household spending for a seadon or two and that could also dampen gambling cut revenues to the NHL...plus attendances accross the league would be affected.

So still lot of possiible scenarios where cap goes down not up..


Don't count the chickens ....etc.

 

[Toews2Bickell]

right as we enter another economic meltdown...fitting...fortunately this team has another 3-5 years before it needs every bit of cap space to compete again

 

[Malaka]

Most important thing to do the next three years is weaponize the cap by retaining bad contracts for a year or two in order to get better picks as parts of trades. Hopefully this helps facilitate that.

Also, record revenues, and the league will be adding jersey ads. Greedy bastards.

I will throw up. Leave the ads out of hockey