If it's a hard roll back and that's how u would see it done if it's done at all. Tavares becomes the real steal and he's contract doesn't look like such an albatross.
Hopefully this virus will get rid of weak teams and we can move back to a free market based non CAP league run by supply and demand. Not some artificial Bettman world to seek da wonderful US national TV deal. And you can be sure Rogers/Sportsnet will seek to scale back this insanely high Canadian TV deal. It would not shock me if they walked from this stupid deal and TSN picked it up on da cheap.
Agreed the league is to watered down. Maybe go with a soccer concept one season with the 32 teams do a seeding season. Makes it worth watching for a Teir league next year top 16 to 20 tes in tier 1 last 2 teams move down or more if at 20 teams. Top 3 move up. Teir 1 always gets first draft 14 to 17 teams get the starting pick depending on league size. Then snakes down to the Stanley Cup winner. Next: The last team in the Teir 2 picks and snakes to the 2 to 4 teams you dropped. If it was at 20 I would say 3 max. (IMO.) AHL could mostly stay the same. Same with Echl. It would force teams to not tank. More equal games to make better TV.
I always thought this was right approach. Let da best guys play in NHL. Lets see best on best again. and TV media will pay more to broadcast best on best.
no sports league in North America runs without a cap in some form. So I guess you would like the Leafs to be in a 6 team league like the good old days?
No interest in Ballard and Stavro and Teachers years ever again using our Leafs as their bank accounts . With Rogers and Bell we will be fine. We can outspend anybody any time any where.
No it won't. It would be the end of the NHL. Half the league would be gone. The talent would drop immensely. Look at the leafs. They have that much tied up in 4 players. The teams would have to call up every AHL team to fit under a 40 mil cap. Its ridiculous.
That's not practical. For a $40m cap (using that number for the sake of argument) in a 20-21 season played entirely in empty arenas to work, they would have to pro-rate existing contracts for next season. In this scenario, Morgan Reilly's normal cap hit & salary of $5m would be $2.5m for the 20-21 season. So no need for compliance buyouts or calling up AHL players. Though the Leafs would lose out financially because of so many front-loaded contracts.
In fairness I believe the Flames did not develop Bennett properly at all. That being said I don't think he'd come close to what Draisaitl is now.
Yeah too bad ... but 2/3 of league owners are gonna have to pony up $$ this year to cover losses ... I think it was expected ... i betcha Jacobs was leading da charge ... keep hearing 81.5M cap next year with 30% escrow is where things will end up
