Around the NHL: Panthers win. Onto the business season!

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TheDawnOfANewTage

Dahlin, it’ll all be fine
Dec 17, 2018
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CapFriendly is relatively slick and user-friendly (for the hockey world), but it's funny to me how some in media are acting like it's this proprietary unicorn being snatched away forever.

An organization or entrepreneur could hire two engineers/developers for $150k each and recreate it within 6-12 months. All the data is public (and neatly organized until mid-July), someone just needs to create their own interface and tools. No reason there shouldn't be a functionally indistinguishable public replacement by this time next year, not to mention teams getting a wake up call and developing their own.

Right, but it’s a slight inconvenience and people react to that. Obviously in the big scheme of things this is nothing, but having to wait and navigate a new site just because a big corporation did a corporation thing- it irks people.

Also- are there any Barkov updates? Seriously dismayed by the league’s ineptitude, though I expected it. Like- targeting the other team’s best player is a legit strategy, they are actively encouraging that. Can’t find a bigger elbow this side of 1995, and for some reason this is the one league going backwards.

Barkov will play through a concussion, though, so it’s fine.
 

Beerz

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Jun 28, 2011
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CapFriendly is relatively slick and user-friendly (for the hockey world), but it's funny to me how some in media are acting like it's this proprietary unicorn being snatched away forever.

An organization or entrepreneur could hire two engineers/developers for $150k each and recreate it within 6-12 months. All the data is public (and neatly organized until mid-July), someone just needs to create their own interface and tools. No reason there shouldn't be a functionally indistinguishable public replacement by this time next year, not to mention teams getting a wake up call and developing their own.

I'll do it for 50k and just screen shot everything
 

TehDoak

Chili that wants to be here
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Feb 28, 2002
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Will fix everything
CapFriendly is relatively slick and user-friendly (for the hockey world), but it's funny to me how some in media are acting like it's this proprietary unicorn being snatched away forever.

An organization or entrepreneur could hire two engineers/developers for $150k each and recreate it within 6-12 months. All the data is public (and neatly organized until mid-July), someone just needs to create their own interface and tools. No reason there shouldn't be a functionally indistinguishable public replacement by this time next year, not to mention teams getting a wake up call and developing their own.

In the end, its just a database with players info/salaries.

If you had the all the player info in a spreadsheet or microsoft access DB, it's be relatively trivial to create a "working" model. The real issue is getting this information updated in real time/close to it. I'm sure the NHL has something that teams can reference that is official. The NHLPA site used to contract details on it (or salary at least), i'm not sure if it does now.

The UI/Front end is really just window dressing. Salaries put in a table and a sum function, with a bit more complexity baked in when looking at day to day cap spending. Getting the exact contract details (and getting it right), that is probably the challenge, but my guess is that isn't that hard to overcome.

I'm sure that since the announcement, hockey nerds world wide have been trying to get something to market quick. I'm not worried about it.
 

Jim Bob

RIP RJ
Feb 27, 2002
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Wasn’t this guy literally just playing?

2019-20 was his last season playing.


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Gras

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So there is the thought he has been a solid development coach and was already familiar with players on the Sharks having been an assistant there the last couple of years.

Or we could cry nepotism and bemoan the search not being sufficient, it was too easy by just hiring someone who was there, yada yada.
Stuff like that only applies to the Sabres.
 
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