RangerBoy
Dolan sucks!!!
As we understand it, the PA proposed an approximate team payroll range between $24M-and-$42.5M for 2005-06 (maybe slightly less), with the band thereafter linked to percentage increases OR decreases in readily identifiable league revenues. So that if the NHL matches its average growth of 7.8 percent over its last five seasons, the ceiling would increase to more than $48M in two years. Conversely, if the lockout/cancellation damage is irreversible in the short-term, the cap would be shifted downward.
There are luxury tax and revenue-share components within the PA concept, both of which are consistent with the union's approach throughout the lockout. But it's the introduction for first time of the union's willingness to link downward that has created a carefully crafted and managed league position of cautious optimism.
http://www.nypost.com/sports/44247.htm
Brooks feels the NHL will offer a $28-34 million range which coincides with 54% of the revenue
There are luxury tax and revenue-share components within the PA concept, both of which are consistent with the union's approach throughout the lockout. But it's the introduction for first time of the union's willingness to link downward that has created a carefully crafted and managed league position of cautious optimism.
http://www.nypost.com/sports/44247.htm
Brooks feels the NHL will offer a $28-34 million range which coincides with 54% of the revenue