Wafflewhipper
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I'm sure this Poruszka fellow is a smart dude and all (and hell, good for him for getting hired by an NHL team), but I don't understand what he could possibly add to an NHL front office. The previous NHL hires from private companies/websites have all worked in advanced stats. A website tracking player salaries seems a little more basic by comparison.
Anyways... I switched to CapFriendly from GeneralFanager months ago. It's the better of the two IMO.
Well guess it's back to NHLnumbers for decent access to cap information. Kind of annoying though that teams are buying these guys up whenever a reliable site gets established.
I always thought cap friendly was better to be perfectly honest. Loaded faster and easier to navigate.
Hopefully the guy from capfriendly doesn't get snagged up too. Then we're really screwed.
That's pretty selfish way to view it.
I'm sure this Poruszka fellow is a smart dude and all (and hell, good for him for getting hired by an NHL team), but I don't understand what he could possibly add to an NHL front office. The previous NHL hires from private companies/websites have all worked in advanced stats. A website tracking player salaries seems a little more basic by comparison.
Anyways... I switched to CapFriendly from GeneralFanager months ago. It's the better of the two IMO.
Another prominent member of the online hockey community has made the jump from the web to the front office.
The Las Vegas NHL expansion franchise announced the hiring of Tom Poraszka, better known as the creator of GeneralFanager.com, as hockey operations analyst on Monday.
Poraszka, a 28-year-old Toronto resident, launched GeneralFanager.com as a comprehensive salary cap database in 2015 with inspiration from the passing of CapGeek.com founder Matthew Wuest.
General Fanager quickly became the go-to resource for all financial aspects of the game, including player contracts, known no-trade or no-movement clauses, waiver and arbitration eligibility, historical earnings and even insider details such as specific performance bonus thresholds in player contracts.
GeneralFanager.com was rendered inactive with Monday’s news, leaving competitor CapFriendly.com as the top remaining salary cap reference point on the web.
Time to dust off my HTML5, PHP, SQL, Apache skills.....
I'd be on board, just maybe not PHP
The real problem is tracking down all of the contract information.
Easiest part.
That's the part that seems difficult to me, but I avoid social media like the plague. Maybe I'll break out the thinking cap.
Easiest part.
I think its funny people think this guy has contacts that'd be worthwhile to an NHL club. He's a programmer.
And even if he did have any before. He's owned by a team now, changes everything
I'd be on board, just maybe not PHP
The real problem is tracking down all of the contract information.