Well, actually it was you that stated you didn't like people playing make believe.
All I said was IMO there was an almost unhealthy obsession about the Salary Cap around here lately.
I remember one poster getting all annoyed in the middle of July when they learned the Leafs were using off season LTIR, because they didn't realize it existed.
Seriously, instead of being happy we had more room, they were annoyed at what they perceived as a "loophole" they weren't aware of.
edit..I just went back to that thread to see who it was......no offence intended.
Yes they found a loophole to fit Brown in with off-season LTIR (which isn't even written into the CBA) which is pretty extraordinary
I'm the first one to admit I was wrong on that
But you can't talk about acquiring Tavares without looking at the cap implications
He's a 10M+ player and when Matthews is making 10M+ and Nylander and Marner are making 7M (fair numbers for those kids) you have to have some idea on how you can fit that in
With a hard cap one of the most interesting parts of team building is trying to make everything work with the cap and I'd like someone on the acquiring Tavares side of things to breakdown how it's going to work and who needs to be traded because I've tried and I can't make it work without trading Kadri and one of Nylander/Marner or completely gutting the team