Why salary cap? There are teams paying 90+ and one even 113 millions this season
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Could you elaborate a bit? What is your point?
Willy Stylez
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You are on the first layer, you need to go deaper into the data and then you will find out how they are "above" the cap.
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This thread needs:
1) The exact figure for today's salary budget cap.
2) The projected figure for next year's and the next year's salary budget cap.
3) An explanation of the best theories or algorithms to predict the next salary budget cap.
4) Lots of explanations between personal cap hit, league cap, team budget, personal salary and signing and performance bonuses, and all the combinations thereof, and all other confusion as it arises, in stride.
5) Actual data on endorsements. Is Philly with Crosby still way out there?
6) Some fun figures on barn seat counts and fill numbers (in xx% percentages please, not .xxx ratios).
7) Media overlook. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
8) Wait. How much is that market? And that's in dollars? Cripes!
9) Something to eat.
10) Not me.
1) The exact figure for today's salary budget cap.
2) The projected figure for next year's and the next year's salary budget cap.
3) An explanation of the best theories or algorithms to predict the next salary budget cap.
4) Lots of explanations between personal cap hit, league cap, team budget, personal salary and signing and performance bonuses, and all the combinations thereof, and all other confusion as it arises, in stride.
5) Actual data on endorsements. Is Philly with Crosby still way out there?
6) Some fun figures on barn seat counts and fill numbers (in xx% percentages please, not .xxx ratios).
7) Media overlook. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
8) Wait. How much is that market? And that's in dollars? Cripes!
9) Something to eat.
10) Not me.
aufheben
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You’re already on the site that explains it.
Jumptheshark
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Man, I was hoping for a hit on at least 5)
Don't be like that. Who's not a learner in something? (As they say, once in everything, and always in something. Even NHL trading, they say.)
If they are all $113m of them LTIR does Canada even have enough hospitals?
Does LTIR count towards expenditure and escrow or is it 'off the payroll'? Seeing a list like the leafs if that counts towards escrow the players would be getting burned.
SwivelSchwartz
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To answer the question, it gives mid/smaller market teams the opportunity to compete and doesn’t allow big market teams from just buying all star teams
How could you have a killer grammatical error in such a simple and concise answer?
Will somebody PLEASE think of the foreigners and 18yo prospects etc.
It's King's English that's at stake!
Man Bear Pig
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I agree
Its overtly complicated. If you pay 80M$ in salary - that should be your cap. All those signing bonuses and AAV are dumb. What you pay is what your cap should be
Not as bothered with LITR though it probably can get abused some too. LITR players shouldnt be tradeable imo
Its overtly complicated. If you pay 80M$ in salary - that should be your cap. All those signing bonuses and AAV are dumb. What you pay is what your cap should be
Not as bothered with LITR though it probably can get abused some too. LITR players shouldnt be tradeable imo
StoneHands
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Salary and Cap hit are not the same thing. If the salary cap was based on the actual salary of players, teams competing right now would just back load all of their salaries so they can add star players right now and deal with it later. If it's a rebuilding team they would front load contracts so when they're ready to compete they have a bunch of star players with low salaries and room to add more pieces.
Also, LTIR exists for a reason. If you're going to have guaranteed contracts you need to give some protection to the teams. Hockey is a dangerous sport and there are a ton of injuries every year. It wouldn't be fair to apply a cap hit for a player who isn't even on the ice for reason's outside the team's control. Do we really want teams trying to force injured players back before they should be because they're too tight against the cap?
I do think the NHL needs to tweak something to stop teams from trading for injured players just so they can stash them on LTIR but at the end of the day does it really matter who pays the injured guy's salary if it's not going to apply to anyone's cap anyway? I'm torn on that.
Also, LTIR exists for a reason. If you're going to have guaranteed contracts you need to give some protection to the teams. Hockey is a dangerous sport and there are a ton of injuries every year. It wouldn't be fair to apply a cap hit for a player who isn't even on the ice for reason's outside the team's control. Do we really want teams trying to force injured players back before they should be because they're too tight against the cap?
I do think the NHL needs to tweak something to stop teams from trading for injured players just so they can stash them on LTIR but at the end of the day does it really matter who pays the injured guy's salary if it's not going to apply to anyone's cap anyway? I'm torn on that.
DL44
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Legionnaire11
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That's not why there's a salary cap. It's to ensure a 50/50 split of HRR as an attempt to stabilize the financial health of all 31 franchises.
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Eisen
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It protects the owners from their own lack of self control.
You've been on this site for 15 years, since 2004, and you don't yet understand why the NHL and the NHLPA bargained LTIR into the CBA, and how the salary cap works?
If you don't get it by now, I don't think there's any further and other explanation that has not already been given.
Yeah, the NHLPA should send a memo telling players to stop getting injured because it increases escrow.
No. Actually, it is to give cost certainty to the owners of the franchises as a percentage of HRR.
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