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Sharks Gameday: The 9 Million Dollar Hockey Team
There are two things you need to know to understand today's post: 1) There's a chance we could lose part or all of the next NHL season to a lockout. No fan wants that to happen but it's a grim possibility. 2) I am soon going to be very very wealthy. Once I conclude my business with Mr. Peter CHANG...
What Happened to Parity?
One of the things that was supposed to happen with the arrival of the salary range was an increase in parity. Bad teams couldn't be all that bad because they were forced to spend and good teams couldn't keep all of their best players because success would mean a lot of talent out the door. That's...
Dallas Stars Daily Links: Stars Want Nystrom To Help Build Team Character
The Dallas Stars knew they would have to make the best of a bad situation. All of the team's carefully laid cap plans went out the window just before the regular season when Sean Avery fell so out of favor with the New York Rangers that he found himself on the waiver wire. So while the Stars were...
Sean Avery Reports To AHL; Dallas Stars To Target Free Agent List?
Sean Avery has officially reported to the Connecticut Whale of the AHL today, and his $1.9 million salary cap hit is taken off the books of the New York Rangers. Unfortunately, this also means that Avery's $1.9 million cap hit for the Dallas Stars is now gone -- something we've been contemplating...
New York Rangers Place Sean Avery On Waivers; Dallas Stars Salary Cap Issues Ahead?
Over three years after he was signed by the Dallas Stars to a four-year, $16 million contract, Sean Avery continues to haunt the nightmares of the Dallas Stars franchise. When the Stars placed Avery on waivers in the middle of the 2008-09 season, he was assigned to the Hartford Wolfpack with a...
Politics, credit downgrading, and hockey; or how NHL contraction could end up on the table
With the United States credit downgrade, you can expect a certain faction of NHL fans voicing angrily how the Canadian teams are keeping the league afloat. This is going to lead to arguments contraction and who ought to be contracted. And this talk will also focus almost entirely upon teams in warm...
Report: NHL salary cap to rise by nearly $5M for 2011-12; floor elevated to $48M
...which, if true, means the Florida Panthers will be (as of Monday) $45M under the reported $64M cap, or - more importantly - over $30M below the salary cap floor. What does this mean? For one, the lockout of 2004-05 was an increasingly pointless gesture; the cap max during the season following...
A Quick LTIR Explanation
With the news that Alex Frolov is done for the year, he will likely be placed on long term injured reserve (LTIR) for the remainder of the season. When a player is placed on LTIR, it gives the team more breathing room in regards to cap space. To be brief, the team can "recover" the pro-rated...
More cap mismanagement: With Laperriere on LTIR, the Flyers are broke
Our Geoff Detweiler put together a fantastic look at today's big move -- the Flyers putting Ian Laperriere on long term injured reserve -- and why this severely hurts the team going forward. In a nutshell, according to Geoff, the Flyers cannot call up anybody right now. They don't have the cap...
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