I just found this site. They have a good cap analysis page. With capgeek gone, the site is quite helpful.

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Interesting article here about the salary cap and how players sometimes want it high and sometimes low:
http://nhlnumbers.com/2015/2/5/setting- ... -to-fix-it

Gets into some weird Northian algebra about "units" at the end, though, but the main point is that raising the cap doesn't do the players much good when the owners put a bunch of their salaries in escrow and then claw most of it back.

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Interesting stuff. It sounds like a decent mechanism based on the union contract.

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Yeah, I kind of like it too, but in this age of transparency we're in now, I wonder whether moving from dollar amounts to jellybeans actually complicates rather than simplifies.

The most immediate remedy to the NHL cap is to widen the floor and the ceiling. Teams that can't generate revenue are being asked to cover expenses they can't bear, and then when they can't, the new revenue-sharing mechanism skims $200MM off the top ten teams and then divvies it up not with any formula but simply by the whims of Gary Bettman. I don't have a problem with more central revenue, but this can't be a league based around making sure the Carolina Hurricanes remain solvent.

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You keep alluding to the window closing with respect to the Hawks. Are you worried about the cap next year and any required pruning? I looked at it a few times, and I think they are ok.

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Very worried. Did you hear the CAD might hit 60 cents before this is all over? The 65-cent dollar in the mid-'90s, albeit at a time with no salary cap/revenue sharing, killed Quebec City and Winnipeg*. The big Rogers contract that we're all counting on to blow up the cap pays in CAD.

*EDIT: Also instrumental in killing the Jets was a huge lack of revenue streams at the old Winnipeg Arena, namely that they didn't control parking, concessions, or any of the ancillaries that allow the Hawks to "lose money" on paper while getting filthy rich in real life. That won't happen in today's Winnipeg, where David Thomson of Thomson-Reuters fame has basically built a personal fiefdom in downtown Winnipeg where any money anyone spends funnels into the Jets' parent company, to say nothing of the amusement tax rebates the city/province have granted said company. It's a little dirty, but I care so much about having NHL hockey in Canada's major cities that I try not to stare directly into the sun on this one.

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