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Do you think the League will accept the rumored 42 million dollar soft cap with a still luxery tax of 100 pecent and a 45-46 hard cap?
Egil said:No, but they would negotiate it to 44 or so I think. If the players offer a 46 cap with 100% tax above $42M, the owners would move up, and we would quickly get a deal. ASSUMING clasue #7 is gone.
Egil said:No, but they would negotiate it to 44 or so I think. If the players offer a 46 cap with 100% tax above $42M, the owners would move up, and we would quickly get a deal. ASSUMING clasue #7 is gone.
Exactly. Some teams could do that without even trying.typhoontim said:And let's say, for argument's sake, they did accept an offer where the cap would be reduced to 42M if 8 teams reach 46... I'd be willing to bet 8 teams would get to that level on purpose, take some losses for a year, just so the cap is lowered to 42.
I think Toronto would be at $46.5M or $45.6 after a 24% rollback.trahans99 said:How many teams would be at or close to $46m after the 24% rollback?
Toronto, Dallas, Detroit, Philly i'm guessing, who else? STL? NYR? :lol
Egil said:No, but they would negotiate it to 44 or so I think. If the players offer a 46 cap with 100% tax above $42M, the owners would move up, and we would quickly get a deal. ASSUMING clasue #7 is gone.
you guys are focussing on the wrong stuff. The cap of 42 or 46 doesn't matter a hill of beans to the small markets. Any deal must include severe limitations to rookie contracts and also elimination of the inflationairy arbitration system.
DownFromNJ said:You have to remember, if Bettman sides with a deal, it takes only 8 teams to accept it.
Bettman would probably end up fired, but we'd see hockey
typhoontim said:And let's say, for argument's sake, they did accept an offer where the cap would be reduced to 42M if 8 teams reach 46... I'd be willing to bet 8 teams would get to that level on purpose, take some losses for a year, just so the cap is lowered to 42.
Exactly...which would mean Goodenow couldn't be involved since he is the guy that always sticks some gotcha stuff in the fine print...wazee said:I think the owners would accept a deal with a hard cap of 45M provided there weren't any 'gotcha' clauses...
Um, I think you mean "indexing".Chaos said:Is that the one where the cap would go up if revenues went up(also known as Linkage )?
rockon83 said:If the cap is $42M aren't we going to see teams disappear? Didn't the Canadians come out and say they couldnt survive at a cap of $42M? How on earth could the smaller markets survive?