Anything short of a hard salary cap means DEATH to hockey.

[MikeG]

Lets hope the season stays cancelled.

[GoCubsGo05]

1. Even if it comes back...

....fans should stop going to the games and watching them on TV/listening to them on radio. Screw the rich owners. Screw the rich players. Time for the fans to revolt. Hit 'em where it hurts...their pocketbooks. Greedy bastards.

[MikeG]

2. Spoken like a true big market fan.

Why don't you think of someone besides your own selfish big town?

The fans will not watch the SAME teams win every year.

That's the problem.

[GoCubsGo05]

3. Dude, I live in Grinnell, Iowa. Not big market at all!!! n/t

[Telly Savalas]

8. Tampa Bay is a big market town?

[HamiltonHabs32]

4. Easy for you to say

:D

[Ravenseye]

5. 45 Million Hard Cap might be too high

but I think it'll work.

The main problem in the previous NHL system I think, and is little talked about is arbitration.

See if say the Bruins pick up a player, i'm not naming names, and say pay this journeyman 5 million a year when he's worth maybe 1.5 to 2. So then one of a smaller teams players comes up, his employeers are reasonable, and he's a good player. They offer 3 million, he declines they go into arbitration, and they're forced to pay him 5.5 because he played better than that other schmuck. So they pay it, then trade him for prosepcts or crappy players they can afford.

You end up with a couple owners screwing it for everyone.

Now with a 45 million hard cap that'll still happen but it'll be fa more limited. You're probably not going to see many teams with 2 10 million players. That'd mean that they have 25 million for the rest of the squad. I think that'll make it better for every9one, even teams running well below the cap. They won't have to give up their players as readily.

If you had a 10 Million dollar guy, and one 8, and 2 sixes, and 4 four million dollar players, you're over the cap.

[nickgutierrez]

6. Revenue sharing, not salary cap.

The only thing a salary cap does is guarantee league-wide mediocrity. Look at the NFL.

A better revenue sharing system would fix hockey, just like it would fix baseball, or any other sport.

[MikeG]

7. The Penguins salaries totalled $28 million last year.

The cap would be $17 million over it.

That cap is too high.

We need to wait a little longer.