Cap space compared to other teams

[stempniaksen]

As has been brought up every time this line of thinking is discussed: spending doesn't guarantee success. But to be successful (Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit, Anaheim,) you have to spend.

This, this a million times.

 

[Do Make Say Think]

Chances are that with all the players needing contracts next year we will be spending a lot more than this year

Hoffman and Zibanejad are going to get healthy raises

 

[Golden_Jet]

Plus we need to save money for LeBreton.....If I'm GM I never get to within 5-10% of cap so I can make a trade whenever I want , and not have to trade dollar for dollar.
Next year I see us around mid sixties with new contracts.

 

[dingbatz]

Ya, I'd swap with most of those teams if it means were a contender like them.......

Is that a serious question? Of course I would switch with most of those teams, those are some of the top teams in the league...

Was a riff on the first post:

So those complaining about the "budget", would you rather swap this lineup and cap with Toronto, Philly, New Jersey... ??

 

[stempniaksen]

Was a riff on the first post:

 

[Push540]

Actual numbers: (<--- psst, this is a link to capgeek via webarchive, so all figures are accurate as of Jan 5th)

CHI: $70mil
LA: $69mil
DET: $64mil
ANA: $62mil

OTT: $55.8mil.

(all figures rounded to within $100k)

errrr, his numbers were waaaay off. That's dirty pool!

 

[Push540]

Sometimes there just isn't a big signing to be made.

Looks to me like those are all teams that benefitted from great drafting and trades.

Sometimes there just isn't a big draft pick or trade that's good enough.


Yeah, pro sports is easy to talk about but even if management loosened the purse strings, there's no guarantee of a golden goose.

 

[Xspyrit]

Actual numbers: (<--- psst, this is a link to capgeek via webarchive, so all figures are accurate as of Jan 5th)

CHI: $70mil
LA: $69mil
DET: $64mil
ANA: $62mil

OTT: $55.8mil.

(all figures rounded to within $100k)

And what exactly are we going to do without capgeek? This world without capgeek isn't worth it.

 

[Push540]

And what exactly are we going to do without capgeek? This world without capgeek isn't worth it.

Their founder is ill and they close up shop? That's weird.

 

[Nac Mac Feegle]

Their founder is ill and they close up shop? That's weird.

Could be a case where he doesn't want "his baby" run by someone else while he's ill. The additional stress of not having your hands on your creation and not exactly knowing what's happening with it at any given time would just add more stress when he needs to reduce stress.




As for the cap space issue.....cap space means nothing if you're never going to use it. I have a hard time seeing Scrooge McDuck ever breaking 60 mil a season.

 

[Xspyrit]

Their founder is ill and they close up shop? That's weird.

What's weird is that they're not looking to sell... which means like NMF says, that the owner has the intention to come back

 

[dumbdick]

Youre conflating spending with management decisions

 

[DoughtyFace]

It would be real nice if we could just sign guys like Parise and Suter when they go UFA, but in the real world, not every player wants to play for Ottawa. Sometimes there just isn't a big signing to be made.

On teams like LA, CHI, DET, ANA, who are the major players they signed as UFAs anyways? Looks to me like those are all teams that benefitted from great drafting and trades.

This x1000. You can't reliably build a winning team anymore by buying players to fill it. You draft and cultivate, as the players grow and reach their ceilings their salaries grow. I wouldn't change much with the Sens currently, there is cap space to grow the spending as zib, hoff, stone, ceci all command higher salaries. I don't want to see the club rush to bandaid the current issues when most of the kids need another year or so to mature, the last thing we need is a rental player or to overspend for a UFA (which we would to get them to play for a rebuilding team). There are a few bad contracts anchoring this team down as well, which isn't helping.

 

[Rand0m]

This x1000. You can't reliably build a winning team anymore by buying players to fill it. You draft and cultivate, as the players grow and reach their ceilings their salaries grow. I wouldn't change much with the Sens currently, there is cap space to grow the spending as zib, hoff, stone, ceci all command higher salaries. I don't want to see the club rush to bandaid the current issues when most of the kids need another year or so to mature, the last thing we need is a rental player or to overspend for a UFA (which we would to get them to play for a rebuilding team). There are a few bad contracts anchoring this team down as well, which isn't helping.

Exactly my point.

It's easy to go out and spend to the Cap on any player available but rarely does it pay off. The teams that have had the most success recently all pretty much built their team through drafting, developing and then when they were ready to take the next step made a few key trades/signings.

Also, the numbers I got were from NHLNumbers.com now that CapGeek is gone.