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by Paul on 07/20/08 at 09:09 AM ET
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from Stu Cowan of the Montreal Gazette,
The key to success in the salary-capped NHL is to build through the draft and spend your money wisely, two things Gainey has done extremely well. He has spread his money out evenly, with three players in the $5-million tax bracket (Markov, Roman Hamrlik and Alex Tanguay), two in the $4-million range (Saku Koivu and Kovalev) and one earning $3 million (Andrei Kostitsyn).
By comparison, the New York Rangers have five players earning more than Markov: Wade Redden and Scott Gomez ($8 million each), goaltender Henrik Lundqvist ($7.75 million), Chris Drury ($7.1 million) and Michal Rozsival ($7 million). Those five players will eat up 67 per cent of the Rangers’ cap space.
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Wrong, wrong, wrong. It’s about the cap hit, not the money being paid. Roszival’s cap hit, for example, is only $5M. And this guy is a professional hockey writer? Are you effing kidding me?
Posted by Matt on 07/20/08 at 10:27 AM ET
Not is Rosy’s cap hit wrong Redden is making 6.5 and Gomez is making 7.3. This guy is joke!. He is also wrong about Drury and Hank’s cap hit.
Posted by roc on 07/20/08 at 12:25 PM ET
and the other problem this clown is failing to realize is that they have to RESIGN koivu, tanguay, kovalev, higgins, plekanec, begin, chipchura, kostopolous, latendresse, boullion, dandeneault, and komisarek next year as all of them are either UFAs or RFAs next year…
many of which are due for a huge pay increase.. i cant wait to see what this guy has to say then
Posted by dan on 07/20/08 at 01:56 PM ET
Cowan is not one of the Gazette’s Habs beat writers, so no, he is not a “professional hockey writer”.
The Habs are $6.8m below this year’s cap (their full roster is under last year’s cap still), so there is plenty of room to re-sign a lot of the players for next year, especially if the cap climbs to $60m.
And no, they don’t have to re-sign Bégin, Kostopolous, Bouillon or Dandenault at all.
Posted by saskhab from Saskatoon on 07/20/08 at 09:27 PM ET
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Did they win the Cup while I wasn’t looking? I’m curious by what standard Cowan considers the Habs a success. They certainly fill their building, but they do that regardless of their record. Their current one year streak of making the playoffs isn’t exactly mind-blowing.
Far be it from me to defend the Rangers, but Cowan might be surprised to learn that they have more regular season points (291-287) and have played in more playoff rounds (5-3) than the Canadiens in the salary cap era.
Posted by shep from california on 07/20/08 at 10:26 AM ET