Thread: The Official CBA Negotiations/Lockout Super Thread

Originally Posted by santiclaws

No, the cap is an artificial deflation of salaries. That's the whole point of having a cap. The circumvention of the cap is an attempt to bring salaries more in line with what they would get paid if the marked was free. That's natural, not artificial. The owners are circumventing the cap to pay players what they believe the players are actually worth. Your opinion that middle of the road players are getting paid more than what they are worth is unsupported by facts, since the market has determined what they're worth what they're getting paid. Players are paid what the market will bear, at least a market with an artificial wage control in the form of a cap on salaries. If it wasn't for the cap, the players would be getting more than what they're getting.

Some players would make more, but many more would make less (due to the floor).

Either way, with no cap, several teams would likely fold in 3 - 5 years, starting with Phx. Would the NHLPA want fewer teams - i.e. union members? And all the UFA talent would flow to the 5 - 10 teams with huge budgets to spend, setting up a tier system of teams. Could the Kings compete salary-wise with TO, Mtl, NYR, Vanc, or Philly? probably not.

Originally Posted by Lappy!

There could be, if your team opperates close to the cap floor.

Mr. Tallon, please pick up the white courtesy phone.

jt,
a truly free market could have contracts for multiple years. guaranteed or not.* whatever they could negotiate. The true winners in that case would be the elite players. Crosby could have gotten 25M from Toronto.

*Except for contract length. there are some statutory limits there that I don't remember.

Originally Posted by Lappy!

There could be, if your team opperates close to the cap floor.

Which, in turn, turns it into an advantage for...say...the Rangers, who overpay EVERYBODY, then end up unloading those ridiculous contracts to teams struggling to reach that cap floor. That way, the Rags can keep luring all the UFAs with huge contracts, while unloading the guys (Gomez) with other huge contracts, that didn't pan out. Then the team that gets those players (The Habs) stay in perpetual sucktitude because they need to SOMEHOW reach the floor, without being able to land the top UFAs, because, well, they suck and the UFAs wouldn't want to go there anyway.

My head hurts...

Coming out of left field with this one, but has anyone ever published on the net a real NHL players contract ? If so can you post/send me a link to it please.

Originally Posted by Thud

Coming out of left field with this one, but has anyone ever published on the net a real NHL players contract ? If so can you post/send me a link to it please.

These are both quite old (and neither is quite what you're looking for), but I didn't have time to dig too deeply.

http://scholarship.law.marquette.edu...%20contract%22

NHLFA.com - NHL CBA

Are they talking this week, or is everyone too hung over from the HoF party?

Well, Halo 4 and CoD Black Ops 2 is currently stalling them.

Originally Posted by Dexter

Well, Halo 4 and CoD Black Ops 2 is currently stalling them.

Don't forget Assassins Creed III. They have a lot of game play to go before they start talking again.