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I don't get how this helps anyone. More than half the teams will struggle to get below the cap, while players will end up being bought out or buried in the minors.
In the last CBA negotiations, the NHLPA proposed a one-time rollback of 24% of existing salaries across the board, and the owners insisted that this remain as part of the new deal.
Essentially, a rollback is taking an existing contract and reducing it as per a collectively-bargained agreement to do so. In real terms, a player with an SPC of $1,000,000 p.a. saw his contract reduced to $760,000 p.a.
A solution would be to rollback just a select number of contracts per team. I vote for a process of selection involving dogs and who ever loses to them gets his paycheck chopped.
Seriously I don't see why the PA would be against a small amount of overblown contracts being bought out and the players waived. That would just mean more ice time for more deserving players, what's wrong with that?
Stupid question time: instead of forcing teams and players to go through financial hoops to make a suddenly lowered cap for this season, why not just play this year with this year's number and let the next CBA/cap kick in next year?
I have a feeling the answer is going to mostly be about getting the players to give back more money in the short term to the owners through escrow or whatever else...
A solution would be to rollback just a select number of contracts per team. I vote for a process of selection involving dogs and who ever loses to them gets his paycheck chopped.
Seriously I don't see why the PA would be against a small amount of overblown contracts being bought out and the players waived. That would just mean more ice time for more deserving players, what's wrong with that?
The "undeserving" players are part of the union as well.
Greg Sherman would be laughing so hard, I can already imagine it.
So would I. Would finally make guys like seanlinden realise that Avs fans were actually telling the truth when we said this was the reason Sherman was not throwing money around at guys like Leino
16 teams currently over $58Mil, while the Coyotes are sitting at $44.8Mil (but still need to sign Doan).
I wonder if Snow will take advantage?
So is it a soft cap? Is the penalty of going over based only on revenue sharing? I guess these and other questions will be answer in the next episode in the CBA negotiations!
You don't think public opinion should be weighted by the player's union? It's sad to say but the more reasonable the owners' offers are going to look as reported by the media the more the pressure is going to be on the players and not the other way around. I would be pretty happy if the Habs could get rid of Gomez' contract for free. I'm sure there are other cases around the league as well and I'm not sure it would be wise for the union to fight for those.
So, either there will be a lot of 1 way contracts in the 'A', or a buy out amnesty, where a player gets free money and becomes a free agent searching for a new contract while the team's cap will not be affective . Or is the league trying to make the KHL a better league?
