Salary Cap to Jump to $78M-$82M

[Matty Sundin]

If it goes up to 100 million I can still see idiotic GMs getting themselves in cap hell still.

 

[Minor Boarding]

Somewhere Bobby Holik is having a cold beer.

 

[Legion34]

What teams will Be able to actually spend to 82????

Will Arizona actually have to pay teams for empty contracts to get to the floor?

 

[TheGroceryStick]

Cheeky fellow

 

[vippe]

Slowly moving towards a new lock out.

 

[LeafFever]

Slowly moving towards a new lock out.

The owners voted for expansion so they can't complain. Guaranteed a new Seattle team shoots-up the cap as well.
I think it was a little concerning the cap flatlined for 2-3 years. It's all based on league revenue.

 

[LeafFever]

Somewhere Bobby Holik is having a cold beer.

It is weird that 15 years ago he got a long term deal for 9 million per. Crosby's cap hit is less than that.
It's really hard to complain about player's salaries when you look at what they were making in the late 90's/200s0s.

 

[LeafFever]

You have a fundamental and basic misunderstanding of Revenue vs. Profit. Seems to be pretty common round these parts.

How so? We know from all reports Carolina is in the red. You seem to be assuming because someone is a billionaire they will have no issue upping the payroll to the cap max and accept those extra losses. Does not work that way. Baseball has a few billionaire owners who have some of the smallest payrolls in MLB. Carol Po;lad had no issue being worth billions and assuring Minnesota was a "Have Not" team and colleted extra revenue as a result for years.

 

[LeafFever]

Different league. He clearly has not adapted.

The team got old and the organization was never going to keep finding 6th round future HHOF players. Give him time to rebuild.

 

[GoldiFox]

How so? We know from all reports Carolina is in the red. You seem to be assuming because someone is a billionaire they will have no issue upping the payroll to the cap max and accept those extra losses. Does not work that way. Baseball has a few billionaire owners who have some of the smallest payrolls in MLB. Carol Po;lad had no issue being worth billions and assuring Minnesota was a "Have Not" team and colleted extra revenue as a result for years.

Just lol.

"We know from all the reports that Carolina is in the red"

Except for the fact that they actually made a profit last year. Which is what the reports actually say if you cared to look instead of being blindly led by your bias. The ignorance here is just astounding.

Carolina Hurricanes on the Forbes The Business of Hockey List

 

[Gabe Kupari]

Meanwhile Florida Carolina and Arizona play in front of family and friends. Lockout in 3 2 1...

 

[WingsMJN2965]

The team got old and the organization was never going to keep finding 6th round future HHOF players. Give him time to rebuild.

The error was in his making stupid moves such as trading a 1st for Kyle Quincey and signing numerous long term money deals to mediocre talent like Helm, Ericsson, and Nielsen.