Moving Hard Cap??

[Scoogs]

Probably another Pejorative Slured idea, but here it is anyways.

The owners get a hard cap, but it depends on the revenue and profit from the last year. So if the NHL encounters a really bad year (which has happened quite often), the hard cap moves down to for example, $35mill for the next year.

The NHL has a spectacular year, and profits exceed a certain amount, the hard cap gets moved up to $50mill for the next year.

It all depends on numbers, what is considered a bad year and a good one, which can be worked out. But would this work at all? Is this still considered "cost certainty"?

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[nyr7andcounting]

This isn't a new idea it's what the owners have wanted for the last 2 years.

 

[jratelle19]

So, how would teams deal with their payroll if the cap changes one year from $50 mil to $35 mil?

In other words, let's say the Leafs payroll is at $49 mil and now are forced to trim it down to $35 mil for the next season? What if all their players are under contract into at least the following season? Things would get way too chaotic if that happened.

I can't see this working if the NHL has guaranteed contracts. They would have to have non-guaranteed contracts, and you know very well that the players will never go for that.

 

[Scoogs]

So, how would teams deal with their payroll if the cap changes one year from $50 mil to $35 mil?

In other words, let's say the Leafs payroll is at $49 mil and now are forced to trim it down to $35 mil for the next season? What if all their players are under contract into at least the following season? Things would get way too chaotic if that happened.

I can't see this working if the NHL has guaranteed contracts. They would have to have non-guaranteed contracts, and you know very well that the players will never go for that.

Good point. I dont know how the subject of previous contracts eluded me.. but it did. Now I feel

 

[John Flyers Fan]

Probably another Pejorative Slured idea, but here it is anyways.

The owners get a hard cap, but it depends on the revenue and profit from the last year. So if the NHL encounters a really bad year (which has happened quite often), the hard cap moves down to for example, $35mill for the next year.

The NHL has a spectacular year, and profits exceed a certain amount, the hard cap gets moved up to $50mill for the next year.

It all depends on numbers, what is considered a bad year and a good one, which can be worked out. But would this work at all? Is this still considered "cost certainty"?

This has been the NHL's plan all along.

 

[John Flyers Fan]

So, how would teams deal with their payroll if the cap changes one year from $50 mil to $35 mil?

The cap would never change by that much in one year. At most it will go up or down by $2/3 million a year.