TSN: Cap will go up next season. 84-88.2mil (cap increase now in jeopardy)

[canuckking1]

TSN: - Salary Cap may go down due to Covid-19 (Cornonavirus)

 

[Peter Griffin]

If the season is toast. Cap might go down

I don’t see how it wouldn’t with each team losing out on 10+ games of regular season plus playoff revenue.

 

[I am toxic]

Cap will go up next season. 84-88.2mil


Welp, that didn't age well

 

[DS7]

Depending on how severe the NHL is hit with this. If the cap drastically lowers. I wonder if they'll allow owners another round of compliance buyouts similar to the last lockout???

Could be goodbye Loui

From wiki: Due to the 2012–13 NHL lockout, the salary cap was not to increase to the projected $70.2 million, so each team was therefore granted two compliance buyouts to be exercised after the 2012–13 season and/or after the 2013–14 season that would not count against the salary cap in any further year in order to better comply with a lower than expected cap value, regardless of the player's age

 

[VanillaCoke]

NHL Deputy commissioner Bill Daly: Cap projected between $84M-$88M - TSN.ca

Props to those that didnt spend months fretting over a cap that had yet been determined.

This is obviously good news for the Canucks and fits well with their core time-line.

Cap will go up next season. 84-88.2mil


Welp, that didn't age well

CaP sPacE dOes noT mATteR

 

[F A N]

I don’t see how it wouldn’t with each team losing out on 10+ games of regular season plus playoff revenue.

I think the cap wouldn't go down because it's not in the best interest of the owners and players. The cap is set based on projected revenues and not last year's revenues. If the season does get cancelled the players will probably end up paying more escrow than they projected so they would be unhappy. But at the end of the day a lower cap isn't beneficial to the players. If this season was cancelled and I was a player I would totally bet on revenues being higher next season.

 

[vanuck]

Depending on how severe the NHL is hit with this. If the cap drastically lowers. I wonder if they'll allow owners another round of compliance buyouts similar to the last lockout???

Could be goodbye Loui

From wiki: Due to the 2012–13 NHL lockout, the salary cap was not to increase to the projected $70.2 million, so each team was therefore granted two compliance buyouts to be exercised after the 2012–13 season and/or after the 2013–14 season that would not count against the salary cap in any further year in order to better comply with a lower than expected cap value, regardless of the player's age

That would be hilarious. Benning lucks into a compliance buyout with which he can rid himself of Eriksson!

 

[someguy44]

I think the cap wouldn't go down because it's not in the best interest of the owners and players. The cap is set based on projected revenues and not last year's revenues. If the season does get cancelled the players will probably end up paying more escrow than they projected so they would be unhappy. But at the end of the day a lower cap isn't beneficial to the players. If this season was cancelled and I was a player I would totally bet on revenues being higher next season.

Next season will be wave 2 (assuming no working vaccine or if this thing doesn't slow down enough by social distancing/warmer weathers). Think of all the people with no jobs by Oct or the economy by then. I seriously doubt revenues will go up next season for the NHL. It most definitely will go down.

 

[LordBacon]

I can’t believe jb might just get away from this season because of the corona virus. Jesus Christ

 

[Svencouver]

CaP sPacE dOes noT mATteR

yea b/c an unprecedented viral outbreak and global quarantine that society hasn't seen in the post-industrial era is definitely something GMs account for when allocating cap space

making literally any judgments on management based on covid is silly

 

[PuckMunchkin]

TSN: - Salary Cap may go down due to Covid-19 (Cornonavirus)

That would be something.

 

[VanillaCoke]

yea b/c an unprecedented viral outbreak and global quarantine that society hasn't seen in the post-industrial era is definitely something GMs account for when allocating cap space

making literally any judgments on management based on covid is silly

See the forest for the trees..

Its not based on covid, at all, which should be obvious. Its based on the roster the management has built, and the lack of flexibility therein.

 

[timw33]

A rollback in cap (if significant) might come with a rollback in salaries akin to the 04-05 lockout, or at the very least a round of compliance buyouts.

 

[Hit the post]

A rollback in cap (if significant) might come with a rollback in salaries akin to the 04-05 lockout, or at the very least a round of compliance buyouts.

See yah Loui Eriksson!

 

[Diamonddog01]

That would be hilarious. Benning lucks into a compliance buyout with which he can rid himself of Eriksson!

And the team makes the playoffs in the alternate points scenario...that would be both hilarious and incredibly lucky.

 

[Diversification]

A rollback in cap (if significant) might come with a rollback in salaries akin to the 04-05 lockout, or at the very least a round of compliance buyouts.

Yep. We would not be the only team with crazy cap problems if the cap drops. Players will give on escrow and there will be buyouts. Salary rollbacks would be a non-starter and possibly not even allowable under the CBA.

 

[timw33]

Yep. We would not be the only team with crazy cap problems if the cap drops. Players will give on escrow and there will be buyouts. Salary rollbacks would be a non-starter and possibly not even allowable under the CBA.

This is the issue with having a revenue share split with the league—when they lose money, you lose money. If the HRR dictates the cap decline, I think it means some rollbacks would be required.

 

[Fatass]

See yah Loui Eriksson!

Loui, Sutter, Baer, Beagle, and Myers. Be nice to get four of those super special buyouts. But please let’s have a proper GM using them.

 

[VanJack]

Loui, Sutter, Baer, Beagle, and Myers. Be nice to get four of those super special buyouts. But please let’s have a proper GM using them.

Yessiree.....the players you've listed above are owed close to $23m next season.....and if you add in Roussel, Ferland and the Luongo cap recapture penalty, the final total is an ugly $33m. So if the cap actually goes down, the Canucks are royally screwed.

Forget about Tofoli, Markstrom or Tanev.....they won't be able to sign any of 'em. It's hard to believe how one GM, from a cap standpoint, can find himself wearing a jock-strap two or three sizes too small

 

[dombrova22]

IF we do get 2 compliance buyouts - who goes? Eriksson and Beagle? Eriksson and Ferland?

 

[Hit the post]

IF we do get 2 compliance buyouts - who goes? Eriksson and Beagle? Eriksson and Ferland?

heh, would be nice if we had more than two.

- Beagle, Eriksson, Myers, Ferland (I *STILL* give Roussel a pass because he played so well his first year & his coming off that major injury hasn't been going as well as expected).

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

IF we do get 2 compliance buyouts - who goes? Eriksson and Beagle? Eriksson and Ferland?

Eriksson and Beagle
I bet on Ferland returning to form or LTIR

 

[timw33]

IF we do get 2 compliance buyouts - who goes? Eriksson and Beagle? Eriksson and Ferland?

Either go Eriksson + Beagle to clear out $9MM and two guys that are over 33 or Eriksson + Myers to clear up the most total $$ and total years possible.

 

[Peen]

I'd go Eriksson and Myers for total salary and term.

 

[Samzilla]

I do think though that Benning signed a lot of these high paid bottom 6ers before he realized we were this far along in the re-build, I think he expected some of those salaries to be gone before competing.

Benning's been trying to compete the entire time.