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It Is A ‘New’ Season
by Paul on 10/09/08 at 10:06 AM ET
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from Damien Cox at ESPN,
The names aren’t necessarily tied directly together, which makes cause-and-effect difficult to prove. One hockey player makes it here, another is told he’s no longer wanted there, and the merry-go-round starts again.
But two intriguing trends have surfaced this fall on the eve of the NHL season, one producing great optimism about the future of the league, the other a gloomy sigh of nostalgia for best days gone by.
Somewhere in between those trends rests the four-year-old financial instrument that is the league’s salary-cap system. In a theme familiar to other sports, and one familiar to hockey since the days when Gordie Howe’s signing bonus was a Red Wings jacket, the size of a player’s salary matters nearly as much as the tools and talent he brings to the rink.
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