Andy MacDonald to St. Louis for Doug Weight...
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yeah, that and the fact that Doug Weight is in his final year... it allows Burke to negotiate an extension with Cory Perry.
I guess this means that Teemu ain't coming back.
I guess this means that Teemu ain't coming back.
without the salary cap, Anaheim wouldn't have been able to have a fair bid for a Chris Pronger, Matt Schnieder, Scott Niedermayer, Teemu Selanne all within 2 years. and as fair a bid as 29 other teams.
i am not in disagreement. though, Anaheim wouldn't have been able to afford those players had salary cap not been initiated. remember, we had average salaries of players in top 10 scoring (just as an example, not perfect mind you, of elite talent) making over 8 Million before the lockout.
Now, the average is 4.5 Million.
Now, the average is 4.5 Million.
And now the salaries are being driven back up with the new contracts.....it's just a vicious circle.21pro said:Now, the average is 4.5 Million.
I'm not sure I understand the whining about the salaries. The size of the payroll is simply a function of the revenues. If the league is making more money then the players get more and the best players are going to get the biggest contracts. If the league makes less then the players get less. It's equitable and not difficult to understand.guyroch said:I just told you the Ducks made Scott the highest paid defenseman when they stole him off the Devils and Pronger held a gun to the head of the Oilers when they got him in a trade ...
Salary Cap ?? ... Wow you mean McCabe and Kubina could have gotten more without the cap ..
GOMEZ, SCOTT 7.3 million
DRURY, CHRIS 7.5 million
BRIERE, DANIEL 6.5 million
Cap sure didn't help the Devils and the Sabres ..
The Cup was won by the Ducks cause they have the best GM in the NHL ... Burke got them the cup and the Cap is taking it away ...
Granted, it does make things like trades more difficult but to complain about the amount the players make is stupid. It's a negotiated percentage of revenues, nothing more, nothing less.
yeah, sure... pull in an example of a jfj signing to support your argument... now that's a little below the belt! lol.. ican't reason with that example.
My argument is that it was never intended to keep salaries down. It was intended to keep payrolls within a certain range of the revenues and that's what's happening.guyroch said:My arguement is that the salary cap hasn't managed to keep salaries down ....
The gap is due to the fact that the best players will always be the ones who are worth more and more important to please because supposedly they are the ones who will help the team the most. Basically it means if you're not a star you get to pick at the bones of your team's salary cap. You get what's left over after the team secures it's key players, the ones who have a chance of helping the team achieve success. You're just filler and easily replaceable.
