666 said:
The rumored deal is 54% of 1.8B or 32.4M per team. Some will be higher some will be lower but lets work with $32.5M.
$4.5M:star first line C
$4.0M:star goalie:
$3.0M:1st dman
$2.5M:2nd dman
2.50M:1st line RW
2.50M:1st line LW
We've spent $19M and we have one line and a goalie with $13.5M left and 17 guys to sign.
2.5M:2nd line C
1.5M:2nd line RW
1.5M:2nd line LW
1.5M:2nd d pair
1.0M:2nd d pair
1.1M:a goon or mucker
4.4M:11 Guys at the league minimum of $400k.
32.5M:total
Top guy only gets $4.5M so you can't take money from the top guys and give it to the minimum guys.
Of course this gets a bit better for the top teams. Depending on rumours it can get about $7M better. That's not much considering the top guys might get up to $6M and even up to 20% of $39M=$7.8M. But along with that we have the teams that can't even reach $32M. What about the teams at the floor of $24M?
The result:
48% of the players at league minimum.
70% of all players under $1.5M
CBA fails player ratification 75:25
666
First of all we know that there is no way in hell (read: noone has ever en\ven implied ) that the cap would be that low in reality. secondly
Player Total Salary Position
Khabibulin, Nikolai $ 4,434,579 G
Stillman, Cory $ 2,750,000 LW
Lecavalier, Vincent $ 2,625,000 C
Kubina, Pavel $ 2,500,000 D
Richards, Brad $ 2,400,000 C
Boyle, Dan $ 2,300,000 D
Modin, Fredrik $ 1,870,000 LW
Cullimore, Jassen $ 1,650,000 D
Andreychuk, Dave $ 1,550,000 LW
St. Louis, Martin $ 1,500,000 RW
Sarich, Cory $ 1,150,000 D
Svitov, Alexander $ 1,130,000 C
Lukowich, Brad $ 1,100,000 D
Grahame, John $ 1,000,000 G
Fedotenko, Ruslan $ 950,000 LW
Taylor, Tim $ 850,000 C
Roy, Andre $ 825,000 LW
Afanasenkov, Dmitry $ 800,800 LW
Clymer, Ben $ 790,000 RW
Dingman, Chris $ 675,000 LW
Cibak, Martin $ 500,000 C
Pratt, Nolan $ 425,000 D
Rumble, Darren $ 290,000 D
Take that to a 24% rollback. WOw! How did they ever do it?