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Random idea to help with the salary cap:

Right now cap hits are determined by an AAV… what if the team got to decide the cap hit at the time of the contract signing (up to a max of the value a player can count against the cap current).

Would give teams rebuilding the ability to front load big cap hits on their stars so they can sign bigger names down the line, and would allow contending teams to stay competitive.

Restructuring of contract cap hits could be possible but at the expense of forgoing a draft pick). The longer the term remaining, the higher the pick you have to give up.

Is this a crazy premise?
 
BertCorbeau said:
Random idea to help with the salary cap:

Right now cap hits are determined by an AAV… what if the team got to decide the cap hit at the time of the contract signing (up to a max of the value a player can count against the cap current).

Would give teams rebuilding the ability to front load big cap hits on their stars so they can sign bigger names down the line, and would allow contending teams to stay competitive.

Restructuring of contract cap hits could be possible but at the expense of forgoing a draft pick). The longer the term remaining, the higher the pick you have to give up.

Is this a crazy premise?
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Can you give an example
 
BertCorbeau said:
Random idea to help with the salary cap:

Right now cap hits are determined by an AAV… what if the team got to decide the cap hit at the time of the contract signing (up to a max of the value a player can count against the cap current).

Would give teams rebuilding the ability to front load big cap hits on their stars so they can sign bigger names down the line, and would allow contending teams to stay competitive.

Restructuring of contract cap hits could be possible but at the expense of forgoing a draft pick). The longer the term remaining, the higher the pick you have to give up.

Is this a crazy premise?
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Interesting thought for flexibility. Problem is the damn thing exists in the first place for “competitive balance”. Leafs front loading 50 million of cap hit on a 8 year 10 per deal doesn’t fit that vision.

Me as a Leaf fan, I like it.
 
BertCorbeau said:
Random idea to help with the salary cap:

Right now cap hits are determined by an AAV… what if the team got to decide the cap hit at the time of the contract signing (up to a max of the value a player can count against the cap current).

Would give teams rebuilding the ability to front load big cap hits on their stars so they can sign bigger names down the line, and would allow contending teams to stay competitive.

Restructuring of contract cap hits could be possible but at the expense of forgoing a draft pick). The longer the term remaining, the higher the pick you have to give up.

Is this a crazy premise?
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I have been preaching a restructure thing for a long time, but not giving up draft picks to do it. My theory is increase the number of years left to lower the cap hit i.e. JT has 2 years @ 11m, restructure to 3 years @ 7.33m or 4 years @ 5.5m. Make that negotiated with the player not team implemented.

Other rules: Can only do it after half way through a contract and cannot go further than double the number of years left. Teams have a limited amount of restructured contracts slots. If the contract doesn't have a NMC then one gets automatically added. So you can't restructure then immediately trade to get around the retained salary clause.
 
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Is karlsson even worth it at 50% retained? I guess the gamble is you can ltir him if he's not good

But if you're having to pay him 8 even it's not worth it. I don't see why the canes are gunning for him

He has 3 more years I think
 
Leaf Rocket said:
he likes the city, his girl, and also I think last time I remember he made a promise to the sick kids hospital and all too previous time.
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Maybe he's rubbing it in lol... but really... its all that other stuff. Media just eats this up and spits it out to try and piss us all off and some of us eat it up. Let's not do that.

Good for him. I don't give a shit about Kessel really now. Good guy when he was here. Don't really fault him.

It's years later... he's had a great career. Cheers to him. If he wants to bring the cup here... it's his choice.

As much as it might piss off some... we can only hope we have a bunch of guys doing that too one day when the Leafs win it. Then they bring it all over Ontario and beyond.
 
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Burnie97 said:
Maybe he's rubbing it in lol... but really... its all that other stuff. Media just eats this up and spits it out to try and piss us all off and some of us eat it up. Let's not do that.

Good for him. I don't give a shit about Kessel really now. Good guy when he was here. Don't really fault him.

It's years later... he's had a great career. Cheers to him. If he wants to bring the cup here... it's his choice.

As much as it might piss off some... we can only hope we have a bunch of guys doing that too one day when the Leafs win it. Then they bring it all over Ontario and beyond.
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I always thought it would have been fun for him to come back in a Jason Spezza type role on a league minimum deal to finish it. More fitting than Spezza since he was actually one of our own.
 
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It's crazy how many of these Dion got a penalty for. It really does feel like these penalties always go against us. We had 3-4 worse versions of these hits just in this last playoffs and none were called.

Hate to play the victim but it was so annoying to see the arm go up after a clean hit.
 
tmlms13 said:
I have been preaching a restructure thing for a long time, but not giving up draft picks to do it. My theory is increase the number of years left to lower the cap hit i.e. JT has 2 years @ 11m, restructure to 3 years @ 7.33m or 4 years @ 5.5m. Make that negotiated with the player not team implemented.

Other rules: Can only do it after half way through a contract and cannot go further than double the number of years left. Teams have a limited amount of restructured contracts slots. If the contract doesn't have a NMC then one gets automatically added. So you can't restructure then immediately trade to get around the retained salary clause.
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I mean why would the player agree to that? It's just giving away money from a contract they already have in place.

Hey JT, I know you have 2×11 left, and then will be free to sign another lucrative contract. But instead why not just take that 22 and spread it over 3 years?

Owners fought so hard for the hard cap it's hard to imagine any modifications to it. I think the best solution would be to switch to a luxury tax system instead of a hard cap.

Let's say the cap is 80 million, then for every dollar a team goes over the cap you need to put a dollar to the luxury tax which gets added as an increase to the HRR. This keeps the player/owner split at 50-50, artificially anyway. You try and sell it to the smaller markets as boosting HRR payouts to them. But it would hurt parity and we know how much Gary loves parity in the NHL.
 
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