While this maybe the most logical solution, getting the majority of the players/NHL PA to agree to a salary reduction is a hard sell
it would be much easier for the compliance buyout to be agreed upon as it wouldnt effect the majority of the players/nhlpa (only 30 players) and some of those 30 players that will be given the compliance buyout will actually want the change of scenery since they will get paid anyways
examples
schneider got sent down and maybe forced to bounce between ahl and nhl. This way he gets paid and can potentially get to play in the nhl for much cheaper on another team
same reasoning as above for alzner, baertschi
those are the big name contracts if you could say that. There are also the big contracts of players in the nhl that need a change of scenery to see if they have anything left but due to their cap hit they will not get it with their current team.
Basically what im trying to say is that it will be much easier to convince the nhlpa of 30 buyouts then a universal reduction in salary
The cap isn’t going to go down. Most likely it will be frozen at current amount for the next 3 years at least.
that idea that was floated makes no sense.
it’s a 50/50 split. Each year. That’s the CBA. So for them to go beyond that would be a complete game changer.
A frozen cap that allows for HRR of the next year to go towards the last year makes no sense.
The economy collapsed and then H1N1 happened. In the same year. The cap went up 3 million the next. It may likely be the same next year and will go up the year after.
At the rate its spreading in the US right now I am skeptical there will be any hockey at all in 2020. A half season starting in 2021 looks like a best case scenario at this point.Who knows if there will even be a 2020/2021 season. Covid-19 might shut down the sporting world well into 2021.
Nobody wants Price and his cap hit.Allocation money should be allowed in times of crisis, the whole thing has to survive, it's a league wide problem.
Take Montréal as an example, they could sell a part of their cap to another team.. For the right price
I think you misread or something.Nobody wants Price and his cap hit.
Wait so you offer an advantage to teams over the cap, and if you're under the cap, a team over the cap gets to offload their mistake onto you? This just sounds like a shitty parenting method. I hope you're just joking and it went over my head.if Cap goes down, teams over new Cap do not need to immediately comply, but any deal they make must be Cap Hit reducing
any team under Cap that wants to object, citing unfair advantage, that team gets transferred to it a player and Cap Hit from a Cap-over team, the choice being up to the Cap-over team
for every high Cap team, what's pushing them over the Cap are very most likely bad, big-ticket contracts
I mean you're not wrong. You're totally right. I think of it like speed limits though. Everyone is expected to drive at least at that speed, despite it being the "limit."I mean. I'm not disagreeing that each team should get a free buy out. But calling it the only fair thing to do, is a stretch in my opinion. On the contrary, despite what GM's actions would lead us to believe, the salary cap *ceiling* is not the salary cap requirement. The salary cap is set each season, and has the potential to rise or fall. Yes, this IS a pretty exceptional, unpredictable circumstance. But still - even if the cap were always the exact same, the ceiling represents the ceiling. It represents the absolute maximum you can budget. Not the suggested amount to budget, until you have pennies left to work with. If a GM wants to put his team to within mere dollars of the absolute spending limit in this system, they take on and accept responsibility and risk associated. The league has already intervened on multiple occasions to save GMs from themselves.
And again, I do agree about a free compliance buy-out in this exceptional situation. But, I have limited sympathy for a GM if he wants to try and hit the cap ceiling with a bullseye.
I think it's hilarious that you ended your post with a comment like that. No chance lowering salaries will fly. It's not so simple.The only logical thing to do is for the league to lower all salaries in proportion to how much the cap drops. Forcing every team to buyout players to fit under the cap defeats the purpose of the Cap since you will have teams spending much more while giving a bonus payday to players bought out and then re-signed.It also creates all kinds of unnecessary transactions and chaos when it's easy to avoid.
This very much feels like wishful thinking for many here and just something to talk about for the media. There has yet to be any kind of intelligent reason put forth to create all this kind of chaos for no reason when a fair solution is so simple and obvious.
It's like people think the league is run by 10 year olds.
I think it's hilarious that you ended your post with a comment like that. No chance lowering salaries will fly. It's not so simple.
absolutely no chance the players will allow a paycut. They will just contribute more to escrow.
but.... that is “pay cut”? Players don’t care about cap hit. They care about money. For example. Say the players would owe 30% in escrow .
option 1. Pay 30% right now. So take the 10% ish that is already gone AND. Then pay an additional 20% today.
so if you made 10 million last year. Then you write a cheque for an additional 2 million today.
option B: take the remaining 20% and pay it back over the next 4 years at 5%.
So now over the next 4 years you pay 500k more back into escrow.
Everyone and their mother would take that.
Your cap hit is now 9.5