Thread: The Official CBA Negotiations/Lockout Super Thread

The season is a long way from starting. Nov 2 ha ha ha!

Good point I need to check..

Start up the next week

Originally Posted by Ice24

The season is a long way from starting. Nov 2 ha ha ha!

You laugh about this?

Originally Posted by AllenA07

That's how I understand it as well. I believe the wording was along the lines that for this season they would allow teams to exceed the cap up to the pre-cba cap. Starting next season the ceiling would be at 59.9. That will make for a very interesting summer, especially because I don't see anywhere in there where players are agreeing to salary rollbacks.

Well technically 2013-14's cap would be set at whatever the revenues end up for a 2012-13 season and the 50-50 split if that's what the PA were to agree to. So it could be more than the $59 mil, could be less if people are angry and don't go to games or buy merchandise.

Originally Posted by Bogey

I thought I read something that said if they get the season going on Nov.2 that for this year only, they would allow a max cap upwards of $70M.

That's correct. The post I was responding to was referring to NEXT season (2013-14).

Originally Posted by AllenA07

That's how I understand it as well. I believe the wording was along the lines that for this season they would allow teams to exceed the cap up to the pre-cba cap. Starting next season the ceiling would be at 59.9. That will make for a very interesting summer, especially because I don't see anywhere in there where players are agreeing to salary rollbacks.

Yeah...this doesn't make much sense to me. Adding up all the teams salary caps and subtracting that from the proposed cap...would leave around 31 million dollars that has to be cut. As the average salary in the NHL is just under 2 million a year, you're looking at AT LEAST 15 guys losing their jobs. Not to mention, you'd practically be requiring teams like Phoenix and and the Islanders to spend near the cap so the numbers work. Right now you'd have a bunch of teams needing to dump players just to get under that number. MIN would need to shed 10 million in salary cap space (wow I wonder why they're so up there....) but who goes and where? With a cap of 59 million, you provide almost zero room to work with.

A cap this low with no roll back means a lot of veterans will be out of a job, no way I see the players approving this.

Originally Posted by Bogey

You laugh about this?

Well, the season clearly isn't starting on November 2nd. It probably isn't going to start in November at all.