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- Apr 5, 2015
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It's hilariously rigged system: there's a salary cap, which is essentially an agreement between owners not to pay too much for workforce. This is extremely illegal probably almost everywhere except in the US. Funnily enough, there's no limit on how much you can charge for a ticket, for a beer, for a shirt and there's no limit on how much NHL can pay to Bettman or shareholders. But somehow there's still a limit of how much money you can use for building your team. Parity is an excuse, the real purpose the cap has is to draw as much money as possible away from the game to the pockets of owners.
But the biggest problem really is draft. Draft is essentially theft. Parity is again an excuse, the real purpose of the draft is to kill competition for players between clubs so they never have bidding wars and they can get best young players for peanuts. Jets paid only 300 000 dollars for Laine, which is laughable amount and just one example. It should have been three millions instead and probably would have been if there were no drafts and NHL teams would have to compete each other to get their players from other leagues. It is wrong for the other leagues which develop players through their most important years between 6-15 and then few years later these players are taken away with very little compensation. Draft is the reason for this, without it more money would flow to other leagues and teams would get an amount of $$$ you could call a real compensation. Again very little money goes for the game, most go to pockets of the owners. Money that should be used to develop the game, facilities, etc.
And I find it immoral that these megamoney (few are even even gigamoney) franchises take no part in developing young players. They just leave player development to other leagues, which have much less money and just pick finished product without having any part in developing them and total unwillingless to fund development, when they should be the biggest funders. The reason why hockey is so expensive is directly linked to the NHL, by far the richest hockey league, but still is a leech that just sucks and gives nothing back.
This is literally a corporated version of the Soviet Union. It is actually worse since this money doesn't even flow back and it is forever lost to the private bank accounts. But still somehow many people see Russian oligarchs funding a league from their own pockets a worse thing these NHL leeches sucking lot of money away from it with salary caps and drafts.
But the biggest problem really is draft. Draft is essentially theft. Parity is again an excuse, the real purpose of the draft is to kill competition for players between clubs so they never have bidding wars and they can get best young players for peanuts. Jets paid only 300 000 dollars for Laine, which is laughable amount and just one example. It should have been three millions instead and probably would have been if there were no drafts and NHL teams would have to compete each other to get their players from other leagues. It is wrong for the other leagues which develop players through their most important years between 6-15 and then few years later these players are taken away with very little compensation. Draft is the reason for this, without it more money would flow to other leagues and teams would get an amount of $$$ you could call a real compensation. Again very little money goes for the game, most go to pockets of the owners. Money that should be used to develop the game, facilities, etc.
And I find it immoral that these megamoney (few are even even gigamoney) franchises take no part in developing young players. They just leave player development to other leagues, which have much less money and just pick finished product without having any part in developing them and total unwillingless to fund development, when they should be the biggest funders. The reason why hockey is so expensive is directly linked to the NHL, by far the richest hockey league, but still is a leech that just sucks and gives nothing back.
This is literally a corporated version of the Soviet Union. It is actually worse since this money doesn't even flow back and it is forever lost to the private bank accounts. But still somehow many people see Russian oligarchs funding a league from their own pockets a worse thing these NHL leeches sucking lot of money away from it with salary caps and drafts.
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