Note intéressante : je m’attendrais à ce que les prochaines périodes d’agence libre soient assez faibles (similaires à celle de l’année dernière), car les équipes auront beaucoup d’argent pour démissionner de leurs gars.
Nous pensions que nous étions si bien positionnés en raison de notre espace de capitalisation l’année dernière et de l’ensemble de notre capital provisoire, mais il est probable que toutes ces choses n’auront que peu de valeur dans les années à venir.
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bkn6136
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Contending teams that have cores locked up are in a superb position.
Could not disagree more with your point about cap space having little value.
We have a ton of young talent on ELCs and RFAs that we will want to pay. We will have more cap space than most teams to hand out large, lengthy contracts, creating a cap space gap that sticks around for 5-6 years *while sitting on serious talent.*
Everyone else will be throwing big numbers for old players, while we’ll focus on big fish only because we’ll have that luxury. We might be the only true contender that can hand out a $20m contract for a McDavid/Draisatl/MacKinnon type player when the time comes.
We’re getting McDavid
I see why Tulsky had no moves this season, but the at this rate the prices are only going to keep climbing for trades. Its essentially the only way now for competitive teams to add any new players unless they overpay for the handful of good FAs or strike gold in the low draft picks.
Cap space is still a weapon even if it isn’t as large of a weapon as it’s been in the past in a very tight cap. Contracts are going to catch up and there will always be a demand for value deals.
My fear with this is that we’re going to start to see teams operate with an “internal cap” and the league will start looking like the MLB with a separation of haves and have nots.
On top of that, my other fear is that the money for this cap is going to have to come from somewhere and games will get harder and harder for working class people to enjoy.
Ticket prices are going to rise unsustainably. This game only survives based on ticket Revenue and bringing new fans into the fold.
ATTENDANCE IS going to shift to boring corporate and wealthy golf clappers.
Just sucks that the cap started to rise right after the Canes were in cap hell and had to see a bunch of high quality players leave in free agency.
The owners are pricing themselves out of the incredibly niche market in which they operate.
The NHL has the lowest average attendance of professional sports leagues, including MLS and is ~$4bn lower in annual revenue than the next highest sport (NBA) annually.
The annual TV revenue for the league is ~$2bn less than the NBA.
If you look at total attendance, then the NHL is just above the NBA, but very comparable (about 100,000 attendees more annually in the NHL), but again that ends up being lower average attendance because the NBA only has 30 teams compared to the NHL’s 32.
I’m all for these guys getting paid and giving teams more available money to play around with to put the best possible product on the ice every night, but at a certain point, you have to wonder how much of a loss these owners want to operate their teams at annually.
Doesn’t matter if we don’t do anything with the cap space we have
We don’t have that much cap space relative to the rest of the league. Even before the nikishin contract we have the 29th most in the league. All this means though is our NHL roster is locked down and we have more talent locked up than the vast majority of teams. We have spent effectively. However we aren’t bringing anyone big short of shedding some contracts