GDT: Group A - May 13 - Italy (1) vs Germany (4)

[awesomo]

man good for German hockey for a guy like Drai. He is an absolute beast.

 

[Sanderson]

There is actually little reason to do that. I've just read the other day that German players' salaries are getting more and more inflated and have no corelation to the players' skills any more. The reason is that every roster has to have a minimum of German players and since there is little talent to pick from even weak players salaries get inflated, basically just for beeing there and filling roster spots. Basically rules of the free market.
That was actually one of the reasons DEL teams made a minus of 16 million last season. Spent to much for talentless falk

That's not quite true though. There is a maximum number of foreigners, but that number is hardly low. This isn't like the mid 90s, were the best German players would get outrageous salaries because there were so few of them. The talent pool is currently big enough to not cause a huge inflation in terms of salary. The best players obviously get paid well, but it's not like they come even close to matching the NHL-minimum. The big teams load up on the mkost talented Germans, which means the poorer ones aren't really capable of matching the salaries, but that has always been true, in every league that didn't have a salary cap.

A good German will make more money in the DEL than he would in the AHL (unless he is on a one-way contract of course), especially when you take into account that you get a flat and a car from the team, but that's still not comparable to what you can make if you have even just a short career in the NHL.

 

[PenDuhNotPittsburgh]

That's not quite true though. There is a maximum number of foreigners, but that number is hardly low. This isn't like the mid 90s, were the best German players would get outrageous salaries because there were so few of them. The talent pool is currently big enough to not cause a huge inflation in terms of salary. The best players obviously get paid well, but it's not like they come even close to matching the NHL-minimum. The big teams load up on the mkost talented Germans, which means the poorer ones aren't really capable of matching the salaries, but that has always been true, in every league that didn't have a salary cap.

A good German will make more money in the DEL than he would in the AHL (unless he is on a one-way contract of course), especially when you take into account that you get a flat and a car from the team, but that's still not comparable to what you can make if you have even just a short career in the NHL.

There you go
http://www.haimspiel.de/del-clubs-15-millionen-eur-verlust/