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Wings Cap Situation
by Paul on 11/03/08 at 08:39 AM ET
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from Bruce MacLeod of the Macomb Daily via the Oakland Press,
One financial dark cloud is that the Red Wings are operating with very, very little room under the salary cap from the beginning of the season for the first time since the new collective bargaining agreement came into place three years ago. Coming from the opposite direction is another dark cloud—the contracts of Marian Hossa, Henrik Zetterberg Johan Franzen, Mikael Samuelsson and Jiri Hudler will expire after this season.
A perfect salary cap storm for a franchise that has perfectly (just about) managed the salary cap for three seasons. In other words, in order for the Red Wings to keep this fabulous roster intact, they need the salary cap to go up as it has in each of the past three seasons.
The only other option would be to have Hossa, Zetterberg and Franzen—who conservatively are in line for at least $10 million in combined raises next season—to sign contracts worth roughly half of their market value.
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