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by Paul on 12/09/09 at 01:54 PM ET
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Call us old-fashioned, but we thought the game was better when each team had its own salary cap: it was called a budget.
-Michael Farber of Sports Illustrated. More from Michael plus additional hockey topics…
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you are both old fashioned and retarded. Let me guess you are a yankee fan or redsox fan?
Posted by gretzky_to_lemieux on 12/09/09 at 02:35 PM ET
Guess that makes me retarded, and a Yankees fan, and a Red Sox fan.
Except I’m not retarded (at least I like to think), and I’m most definitely a Tigers fan.
Posted by Nathan from the scoresheet! on 12/09/09 at 02:49 PM ET
Keep the salary cap ceiling, perhaps adding $10-12M instead of the current $8M to the adjusted midpoint, but remove the salary cap floor. That would make for reasonable parity and a sensible budget.
Posted by Moq from Denmark on 12/09/09 at 03:17 PM ET
Farber is annoying. He’s an original-six loving, elitist writer.
Posted by cs6687 on 12/09/09 at 03:18 PM ET
The problem is if you have a cap, a floor is necessary, otherwise you’ll end up with a dozen or so owners that are in the league strictly as a business venture, collecting revenue sharing as pure profit and running the team at the lowest costs possible.
The lack of a floor is a bigger problem in baseball than the lack of a salary cap, as far as competitive balance is concerned. And if the NHL were to abandon a floor, the results could be worse because teams could essentially abandon any attempt at winning, and strictly act as glorified junior teams that feed talent to the top 20 clubs in the league.
Posted by Nathan from the scoresheet! on 12/09/09 at 03:52 PM ET
Nathan, you’re right, I should have thought about that. I just have a hard time considering participation for financial reasons alone without properly competing. But that surely goes for no salary cap as well?
Perhaps expanding the salary cap interval, eg. to the aforementioned $12M on either side of the adjusted midpoint, or a revenue sharing eligibility floor.
Posted by Moq from Denmark on 12/09/09 at 04:02 PM ET
That is just the stupidest thing I read all day.
Posted by Stacey Stewart from Pittsburgh on 12/09/09 at 04:11 PM ET
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you are both old fashioned and retarded. Let me guess you are a yankee fan or redsox fan?
Posted by gretzky_to_lemieux on 12/09/09 at 02:35 PM ET