gc2005 said:
Honest question, why does it seem that Flames and Oilers fans are more obsessed with getting a salary cap to "level the playing field" than they are about getting some revenue sharing? Wouldn't revenue sharing help them a little bit more?
Say what you want, but the Oilers had a payroll in the low $30's last season and by all accounts are barely scraping by. If they can't afford the $40 or $42.5 million salary caps that were proposed, then why insist on it instead of pushing for revenue sharing?
Even if Detroit has to chop their payroll to get under a salary cap, they're still miles ahead of the Oilers since the Red Wings can actually draft decent players, so a cap won't make the Oilers instant contenders.
Sure, Doug Weight wouldn't have signed a $7, $8, or $9 million contract with a salary cap in place, maybe only $5 million, which still would have been too much for the Oilers to afford. Teams that actually can afford a $40 million cap will still have an advantage over the Oilers without actual revenue sharing.
The oilers offerered Weight 5 mill but he turned it down for obvious reasons. The thing is the oilers would be on a more competive ground knowing that they don't have to write off 6 games a year against DET, COl and Dall because the other teams payroll is double what the oil is paying.
People can say all they want about the oilers ability to draft, but during the periods where tehir drafting has been suspect, thier pro scouts have went to town and pullout great prospects off other teams list through trades.
Players who the oil got in trades: Hamrlick, Brewer, York, Torres, Weight, Marchant, Carter, Guerin, Ninnimma, and Smith.
The oilers may not be top notch drafters, but they just poached people bad on the trade market. Milbury was a prime target but they bested Clarke, Lamorello, Neil Smith(numerous times) and others too. The reality is Edmonton has been competive in all but 3 season in the last 25, which is something that can't be said by the Storied franchise in Tor.
To everything that putz Strachan has to say i can say one thing: 1967, 1967, 1967
remember the leafs haven't done a thing in the last 38 years so regardless of the playing field being uneven for the last 10 years tehy still did nothing so he should learn to shut the hell up.
I really wonder if he knows how badly a lot of Canadians detest the leafs anyways.