This system ensures that more of the cap space aloted to player salaries will be used than the current system. If a team isn't going to spend at the cap, they just trade away their cap space to a team that does. In the end the players will get more money, how can they not like this? Your argument about players having to pay more escrow because their salaries are higher is akin to somoene arguing that they don't want to make more money because they have to pay more taxes. Unless you are right at the tax bracket, that argument is fallacious because even if you do pay more taxes/escrow on the extra dollars you earn at the end of the day you are still making more money. So this is how players benefit.
Fans benefit because the 'window of success' lasts longer for their team. let's take a 'small' market team like Calgary for example. In 2 years their major stars players' contracts expire. Under the current system the Flames will find it very hard to keep Iginla, Phaneuf, Kipper and Regehr all on the same team while still icing a competitive team. With my system in place a team like Calgary can trade away their draft picks and prospects for cap space so they can keep their team together. Calgary fans are happy because their team stays together, and the team who traded their cap space gets assets to help them get to a point where they wouldn't need to trade cap space anymore. This system basically regulates itself against extreme abuse. No team can keep up that strategy for long as they will soon run out of assets to trade for cap space, also the other teams who were trading their cap space away should in theory become better teams because of it and may become buyers in the cap space market as supposed to sellers. I even suggested that a limit be placed on the ammount of cap space a team can 'acquire' to really crack down on abuse. Yes it will create a system of salary disparity, but no where near the ammount that exsisted before the lockout. Also it is not a given that big market teams will be the ones adding salary, it is any team who for whatever reason needs that extra space to ice a competitive team.