Friedman's 30 thoughts - 14-15 average salary, impact on arbitration, etc

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http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/30-thoughts-the-last-days-of-babwatch/

The average salary was $2,803,043, an 8.57 per cent increase over $2,581,827 from 2013-14. If a team wants to take a player to “cutdown†arbitration, that player must have made at least $1,899,943 this past year.

This process allows teams to cut a player’s salary to 85 per cent of the previous season’s. Vancouver did this with Mason Raymond in 2012. And, teams can walkaway from any salary arbitration award of larger than $3,799,887 — as long as the player elected to go this route. Teams cannot walkaway from any award if it chose arbitration.

And he includes draft pick compensation for RFA table, etc.

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