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Chimaera said:First, I'm saying, in a trade involving a player like Cujo, or Hatcher, or whoever, a deal would work like, Cujo + some decent prospect for a cheaper vet/younger player. The prospect would be part of the impetus to get another team to 'eat' most of the salary. If a team's gonna pay a player part of his salary, and I get something back in return, Cujo's not as bad of a player to pickup.
Oh, so now the Wings have to part with a prospect to unload a veteran.
Whatever.
Yeah. Illitch will go for that.
Chimaera said:How does it not hurt anyone to grandfather in old contracts? Part of the whole new system isn't just to make the big bad large market teams cut spending. It's to allow other teams to even out the talent gaps by the eventual reduction in payrolls of large market teams. [/Chimaera]
Nonsense.
It's about bring salaries down, pure and simple.
The NHL isn't concerned with parity, or this would also be about sharing revenues.
Grandfathering in those contracts definitely hurts the small market teams who were going to benefit from the eventual slash of payroll. Not to mention, if you allow the 'old contracts' to stay on the books, does that mean a team like the Rangers can just go out and spend money? Or are they stuck with the rosters they had pre-lockout?
Yeah. Having grandfather clauses on old, vastly overpaid players is really going to hurt Columbus or Nashville.
If you've been reading what I've been saying (seems unlikely), you'd know that I'm not talking about Detroit or the Rangers having the ability to go out and sign Kovalev.
I'm talking about having the ability to maintain the current roster.
The NHL would have to make some sort of scale that allows teams to fill out their roster in a fair and equitable manner during this transition.
Seriously, with or without the 24 percent salary rebate, any team with Jagr or Yashin is at a great disadvantage for many years.
I know that because I'm pro-PA, you guys probably thinkin I'm simply trying to bust the cap.
But that's not the case
Chimaera said:It might be a successful business in Detroit, but it would be a pretty lame season if Detroit was to faceoff against 6 other teams who could afford to ice a roster. There is no TV dollars to balance the gap between rich and poor, no cost certainty until this point. That's what needs to be achieved.
Detroit is a team on the downswing. Letting these old guys play out their old contracts isn't going to give Detroit any advantage over anyone.
As a fan, I'd love to see Cujo and Hatcher taken off our hands in a dispersal draft.
But I just don't think it is a realistic or fair expectation.