Capitals to purchase CapFriendly website (upd: deal finalized, site has been shut down)

[njdevils1982]

RIP CapFriendly

I remember CapGeek going down and that was a sad time; mostly because it was ran by one person (who passed away), not sure if CapFriendly also was

Guess its on to... PuckPedia? What other options are there

this? spotrac

2024-25 NHL Team Salary Cap Tracker


this the NJ page ...took me a few seconds to find the "multi year" link... but seems to work for info

https://www.spotrac.com/nhl/new-jersey-devils/yearly

 

[SENStastic]

So what was the point of Washington buying the site? Whats the benefit to them? I don't get why they did it.

 

[Jacob582]

When the site goes dark it would be fitting to have a caricature of Ovechkin or Leonsis giving us the middle finger on the front page of capfriendly.com.

 

[Giskard]

So we had ..
CapGeek.com
CapFriendly.com
the next should be
CapsF***You.com
..
at some point a new Cap* will rise

 

[Jacob582]

When the site goes dark it would be fitting to have a caricature of Ovechkin or Leonsis giving us the middle finger on the front page of capfriendly.com.

And in a really high voice they would repeat over and over: "f... you. f... you"

 

[Marc the Habs Fan]

Still tweeting and the website is still active.

https://x.com/i/web/status/1809611951036633265

 

[I am Bettman]

When is it actually going dark then?

 

[JPT]

So what was the point of Washington buying the site? Whats the benefit to them? I don't get why they did it.

It keeps other teams from continuing to use it for their own purposes.

When the site goes dark it would be fitting to have a caricature of Ovechkin or Leonsis giving us the middle finger on the front page of capfriendly.com.

It should just be that lock screen from Jurassic Park where he says "nuh uh uh. You've gotta say the magic word" over and over again.

 

[BKarchitect]

Is there any chance the front facing public side of CF could’ve been given a lifeline due to backlash? With the CF owners ramping up a more detailed, analytics-based internal site as part of the Caps purchase? Or the CF public site getting spun off under different ownership and continuing…although I feel like we would have heard news about that…

Or is it just the Caps IT and legal team taking a long holiday weekend and too preoccupied to actually shut it down at the moment?

 

[Canadienna]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1809304969310511570

PuckGM is pretty good. Worth a try if you use Armchair GM regularly.

 

[SENStastic]

It keeps other teams from continuing to use it for their own purposes.

Wow really, what a dick move lol. I'm sure other teams will find an alternative, they all have staff that handle their cap situation. Thats just sucks for us fans though.

 

[BB88]

Wow really, what a dick move lol. I'm sure other teams will find an alternative, they all have staff that handle their cap situation. Thats just sucks for us fans though.

Apparently there were multiple teams looking into buying it and the league isn’t a fan of fans seeing too much info

 

[SENStastic]

Apparently there were multiple teams looking into buying it and the league isn’t a fan of fans seeing too much info

What a fun league huh

 

[JPT]

Too late now. It's out there that hockey fans like being able to check out teams' cap situations and play GM. There will always be a site like CF.

 

[hockeykicker]

Wow really, what a dick move lol. I'm sure other teams will find an alternative, they all have staff that handle their cap situation. Thats just sucks for us fans though.

a lot of teams dont have anything and rely on capfriendly for all their work.

 

[SENStastic]

a lot of teams dont have anything and rely on capfriendly for all their work.

Edit: Completely misread that tweet. Looks like its a bigger issue around the NHL than I realized, teams gotta get cracking and build something in house then. Can't believe so many of them we're using capfriendly to manage their 88M budget lol, thats just hilarious. They all should have a dedicated capologist that handles it in house. I'm really surprised so many relied on an open website that us fans use all the time too

 

[ijuka]

a lot of teams dont have anything and rely on capfriendly for all their work.

Why did Pittsburgh start building something like that when Dubas came, but Toronto didn't build something like that while Dubas was there as GM for years?

 

[Mitch nylander]

Why did Pittsburgh start building something like that when Dubas came, but Toronto didn't build something like that while Dubas was there as GM for years?

I think it's the inverse, these are the teams that have something in place the rest do not.

 

[Nemesis Prime]

It's funny that teams actually use this website and don't already keep tabs on this stuff internally, now they're scrambling to find an alternative.

Funny stuff from a mickey mouse league.

 

[Maurice of Orange]

Still Capfriendly has not yet perished.

Neither the glory nor the will of HF boards has died yet.
Fate will also smile at us, HF boards brothers.
Our forum enemies will die like dew in the sun,
Thus, Administrators and Moderators, will also rule on our side.

Chorus:
We will give soul and body for our freedom,
And we will show that we, brothers, are of the HF boards family!
Let's become brothers, in bloody battle, from the free agent frenzy to the hfboards archive,

We will not allow anyone to rule in our native team boards!
The HF Sponsors will still smile, grandfather Administrator will rejoice,
In our HF boards, the posts will ripen.

 

[ItWasJustified]

It's funny that teams actually use this website and don't already keep tabs on this stuff internally, now they're scrambling to find an alternative.

Funny stuff from a mickey mouse league.

I'm pretty sure the scrambling for the teams are over since the fact that capfr*endly is going dark has been known for almost a month now.

 

[GoldenSeal]

Still Capfriendly has not yet perished.

Neither the glory nor the will of HF boards has died yet.
Fate will also smile at us, HF boards brothers.
Our forum enemies will die like dew in the sun,
Thus, Administrators and Moderators, will also rule on our side.

Chorus:
We will give soul and body for our freedom,
And we will show that we, brothers, are of the HF boards family!
Let's become brothers, in bloody battle, from the free agent frenzy to the hfboards archive,

We will not allow anyone to rule in our native team boards!
The HF Sponsors will still smile, grandfather Administrator will rejoice,
In our HF boards, the posts will ripen.

Blood and Souls for Arioch!

 

[vorky]

Edit: Completely misread that tweet. Looks like its a bigger issue around the NHL than I realized, teams gotta get cracking and build something in house then. Can't believe so many of them we're using capfriendly to manage their 88M budget lol, thats just hilarious. They all should have a dedicated capologist that handles it in house. I'm really surprised so many relied on an open website that us fans use all the time too

I can not believe this .. that teams do not have some salary cap system/calculator.

The KHL has a salary cap as well. The league created the salary cap calculator/app which is accessible to clubs via KHL CIB app. Teams can see on daily basis how their salary cap situation has been changing. I do not believe the NHL does not have similar system/calculator/app.

 

[LOFIN]

I can not believe this .. that teams do not have some salary cap system/calculator.

The KHL has a salary cap as well. The league created the salary cap calculator/app which is accessible to clubs via KHL CIB app. Teams can see on daily basis how their salary cap situation has been changing. I do not believe the NHL does not have similar system/calculator/app.

They don't. It's up to the teams to keep track of this stuff. If it wasn't for the NHLPA, none of the contract details would be out there for the public either.

And obviously all teams have staff to keep track of this stuff. The issue here is, that apparently a lot of the teams were just using CapFriendly to do this stuff, instead of engineering their own software. So those teams are SOL pretty soon and need to figure out something.

 

[boredmale]

Apparently there were multiple teams looking into buying it and the league isn’t a fan of fans seeing too much info

Yeah but all that is going to happen is some other place will fill in the gap