Wealthy teams would spend a fortune and buy the best players, buy out their mistakes, it would be a lopsided NHL. The salary cap keeps the NHL competitive, look at the parity.
I don't know how rev sharing is set up but I would imagine it would depend on the weight of the fines. This also doesn't remove the player salary cap. In theory, if 10 teams spend over the cap by 100,000,000 total, 20 other teams get they percentage cut. Lets say there was another $50,000,000 in buyouts from teams. For a team like the Coyotes, that could be $10,000,000 from rev sharing? That income from rev sharing, plus say $5,000,000 of our own funds, we could buy some pretty big names. $10,000,000 in rev sharing could also move our internal budget from $72,000,000 to maybe $78,000,000. $6,000,000 is a top 6 player we otherwise would have gone without.
Not waited 20 more games to trade Vermette, Z and Yandle. They won 9 more games between the Dubnyk trade and the trade deadline when he moved everyone else, half of those games were won by a single goal. If he didn't p***y foot around and traded even one of those players immediately that likely would've resulted in at least 1 less win and guaranteed McEichel. But nope, instead he drug his feet and kept them all for another 6 weeks. The last year tanking was guaranteed to work and he blew it...absolutely blew it.
I’ve never heard of a team doing what you described. It would have been entirely novel.
Would've been entirely smart IMO but he didn't and 6 years later the Coyotes still don't have a 1C, a single prospect expected to become a 1C or hell even a player expected to become a first liner. Total. f***ing. Fail.
I wasn't asking what he could have done better as a GM. I was talking specifically about losing MORE not less...
Gee-whiz. You aren’t hearing me man.
It’s like you’re responding to someone else but quoting me? I’m utterly confused here, man.
It seems as though we haven’t even had a phone call with Quinn. I guess that means we aren’t serious at all about Eichel.
VGS, MON, NYI, BOS all built off players not drafted high. Carolinas best player was a 2nd round pick. WPG is mostly 10-25 picks and Wheeler who wasn't their draft pick.
If you allow teams over the salary cap like that, it will allow top revenue teams to continue driving up player salaries. I really doubt the owners want their costs going up, but this becomes another factor that can increase costs for the league aside from the cap already being tied to revenues generated. Currently there is a max the entire league can spend per season and that would be every team at the cap. That doesn't happen, but the cap does work as a barometer on player salaries because max contracts can only be a percent of it. The only way spending goes up now (outside of a team just spending closer to the cap) is if revenues increase.
I think the real issue is Chayka pulled the trigger much too early on things. He was decent at drafting by this team's historic standards, but we needed a few years of the top picks being supplemented by hits on the late firsts, seconds, and thirds. He tossed out some of our promising ones too early in the process and then created a hole 2 years deep with the penalties. So imagine if we'd had a few more of Söderström, Jeník, Hayton, and Bunting making the team a season or so ago. Having those waves of guys coming into the lineup season after season would have really supplemented our current young core and allowed you to fiddle around with the core itself a lot more. Instead we have this huge gap behind the young core, and then question becomes, should we just restart the whole thing because you still really need a few years of solid drafting, prospects, and young players working their way into the lineup.
Yup, the Stepan/Raanta and Hall trades really set us back. Moreso the Hall one. Even having POJ and Domi would have given us more assets to either develop or trade.
