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http://nypost.com/2017/06/11/nhl-losses ... ard-place/The expectation, affirmed in conversations within the past three days by essentially everyone on the NHL players’ side of the aisle, is that the union will decline to trigger the escalator for next season, thus creating a flat salary cap right around the current $73 million for 2017-18.
Well, not exactly. The NHLPA is not going to create the flat cap. The NHL will have done that by generating essentially no revenue growth over the past year. The players are picking their poison, choosing to go with a flat cap that restricts choices for free agents rather than creating a scenario under which escrow losses escalate.
It's a good year for them to do this what with all the extra salary being taken on by Vegas.Cornuck wrote:http://nypost.com/2017/06/11/nhl-losses ... ard-place/The expectation, affirmed in conversations within the past three days by essentially everyone on the NHL players’ side of the aisle, is that the union will decline to trigger the escalator for next season, thus creating a flat salary cap right around the current $73 million for 2017-18.
Well, not exactly. The NHLPA is not going to create the flat cap. The NHL will have done that by generating essentially no revenue growth over the past year. The players are picking their poison, choosing to go with a flat cap that restricts choices for free agents rather than creating a scenario under which escrow losses escalate.
Isn't that what the NHLPA bargained against?Cornuck wrote:http://nypost.com/2017/06/11/nhl-losses ... ard-place/The expectation, affirmed in conversations within the past three days by essentially everyone on the NHL players’ side of the aisle, is that the union will decline to trigger the escalator for next season, thus creating a flat salary cap right around the current $73 million for 2017-18.
Well, not exactly. The NHLPA is not going to create the flat cap. The NHL will have done that by generating essentially no revenue growth over the past year. The players are picking their poison, choosing to go with a flat cap that restricts choices for free agents rather than creating a scenario under which escrow losses escalate.
Question: Does having these guys on long term injured reserve in any way benefit the Ducks with regards to their upcoming expansion draft challenges, particularly when it comes to their defense? I cant recall if injury makes a player ineligible for the unprotected list. And if so, do they eat up a protected spot by default? And if so, on a canucks tangent, what is the current status of dorsett?SKYO wrote:Wow. Hampus Lindholm and Sami Vatanen need major shoulder surgery, Ducks GM Bob Murray says. Lindholm will be out 4-5 months, Vatanen "longer."
I think, I'm sure I will be corrected if wrong, that injured players need protecting and or are eligible to be selected if unprotected. It is the long term career ending injuries that are treated differently. I.E. the Pronger, Clarke, Savard types. The idea behind that is to prevent Vegas from selecting those players to just get cap compliant and using that as a pick along with preventing a team from getting out from under those contracts via the expansion draft. They can still be traded in the normal cap circumvention because it does not involve the Canucks kinda way.Rocky Dennis wrote:Question: Does having these guys on long term injured reserve in any way benefit the Ducks with regards to their upcoming expansion draft challenges, particularly when it comes to their defense? I cant recall if injury makes a player ineligible for the unprotected list. And if so, do they eat up a protected spot by default? And if so, on a canucks tangent, what is the current status of dorsett?SKYO wrote:Wow. Hampus Lindholm and Sami Vatanen need major shoulder surgery, Ducks GM Bob Murray says. Lindholm will be out 4-5 months, Vatanen "longer."
Dorsett will be available for the Vegas Knights to select in the expansion draft.Rocky Dennis wrote:on a canucks tangent, what is the current status of dorsett?
Agreed, this particular form of cap circumvention will remain legal until the Canucks use it.Hockey Widow wrote:I.E. the Pronger, Clarke, Savard types... can still be traded in the normal cap circumvention because it does not involve the Canucks kinda way.
Yup. If Luongo gets a career ending injury, he'll somehow come back to bite the canucks in the cap.Strangelove wrote:Agreed, this particular form of cap circumvention will remain legal until the Canucks use it.Hockey Widow wrote:I.E. the Pronger, Clarke, Savard types... can still be traded in the normal cap circumvention because it does not involve the Canucks kinda way.
Appreciate the clarification HW & Doc. Thx.Strangelove wrote:Dorsett will be available for the Vegas Knights to select in the expansion draft.Rocky Dennis wrote:on a canucks tangent, what is the current status of dorsett?
HW is right about "only long term career ending injuries being treated differently".
Ouch. That is an expansion draft buy-out. He has a NMC, so he could not be exposed. High price to keep their other D-men.Hockey Widow wrote:Rangers buy out Girardi.
From NY Times:
Girardi, 33, has three years left on his deal with a cap hit of $5.5 million per season. A buyout will leave the Rangers with $2,611,111 in dead space for 2017-18, $3,611,111 for the following two seasons and $1,111,111 for each of the three seasons after through 2022-23, according to CapFriendly.com.