NHL Ownership Grades (The Athletic)

I guess there’s no reason not to change the way the cap is calculated then, right?

Teams that have higher taxes all want it. And boy…teams with low ones sure can’t wait to tell you that it doesn’t matter.

Should be an easy universal fix.

Good to know you’re on the side of change
Absolutely.

Then let's add a marketing adjustment to clamp down on the natural advantages of being a celebrity with ample endorsement opportunities in New York, Montreal, and Toronto.

We'll follow that up with a "hometown adjustment", increasing the cap hits on players born in their markets. After all - that's an unfair advantage, right?

Next we'll institute a "cost of living" adjustment - money goes further in Utah than it does in LA. Why should Utah get to spend the same amount as the LA franchise?

Should be easy enough.
 
I think the ones "with low ones" will tell you that it's complicated - not that it doesn't matter. For instance, the state of Washington doesn't have an income tax but has one of the highest sales taxes in the country. They receive their revenue in a different way.

States always find ways to get their money. In Florida, we get a lot of our budget simply by having Disney World next to Orlando and it's a cash cow. Then, at least compared to Arizona, if you use the services of a government office they nickel and dime you to death and/or because of a lack of revenue from state income tax, punt the liability for collecting revenue to the county or city level. When dealing with my driver's license and other automotive related stuff, I deal with the county tax collector's office, as opposed to Arizona where I dealt with a Department of Motor Vehicles run by the state (but Arizona state income tax isn't very high either so they also nickel and dime you).

That's a sharp contrast to my brief time in Hawaii where the state government offices don't nickel and dime you because they get a decent amount of revenue from state income tax.
 
Aquilini may spend to the cap

But he is on record saying he won’t pay for a good coach, and it backfired as he was paying 3 seperate coaches at once recently

He hired a golf chiropractor as his head of medicine that backfired immensely with medical advice he was giving out

He hired a high end sleep doctor from Manchester United then refused to pay him

He is obsessed with those 2 playoff games and revenue from it, the problem is they have missed the playoffs 7 of the past 9 years and 1 of those 2 years was from a technicality of Covid, as he never sells at the deadline by his demand

Aquilini hates draft picks, like despises them at a molecular level.

There's a still a subset of fans on the board here that believe that JR and Allvin have "neutered" his meddling, which is quite frankly, a naive thought. Of course he meddles, he's just doing it much quieter than before and he's staying off Twitter.

Also the Canucks are the only NHL team not to have a dedicated practise facility. Even tight pockets Buffalo has one.
 
The Jets slip a bit because of a lack of recent playoff success. It's been kind of non-stop postseason disappointment since 2018 (except for sweeping the Oilers in the North Division year).

Also, as an ownership group, they're a little tone deaf. They did take season ticket holders for granted...and as soon as that market softened, they ran an ad campaign insinuating the team could move again. That rubbed a lot of people the wrong way.

But really, they'd be ranked higher if they'd gone on a deeper run in the playoffs last year.
 
There's a still a subset of fans on the board here that believe that JR and Allvin have "neutered" his meddling, which is quite frankly, a naive thought. Of course he meddles, he's just doing it much quieter than before and he's staying off Twitter.

Also the Canucks are the only NHL team not to have a dedicated practise facility. Even tight pockets Buffalo has one.

Exactly

I think Aquilini was neutered for about 8 months, and he just can't help himself. And it's 100% his right, he;s the owner, and can do what he wants.

but he just has to get involved, he is incredibly active around the team every single deadline, and could have had a consistent playoff team, maybe not a winner, but a consistent playoff team if he let a proper rebuild occur.
 
Exactly

I think Aquilini was neutered for about 8 months, and he just can't help himself. And it's 100% his right, he;s the owner, and can do what he wants.

but he just has to get involved, he is incredibly active around the team every single deadline, and could have had a consistent playoff team, maybe not a winner, but a consistent playoff team if he let a proper rebuild occur.

At least I don't have to see his ugly mug at the draft this year.
 
Exactly

I think Aquilini was neutered for about 8 months, and he just can't help himself. And it's 100% his right, he;s the owner, and can do what he wants.

but he just has to get involved, he is incredibly active around the team every single deadline, and could have had a consistent playoff team, maybe not a winner, but a consistent playoff team if he let a proper rebuild occur.
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Under Molson we won the first Clarence S Campbell bowl in 100+ years of Habs history, awarded to the Western conference playoff champions!

You make a great point. Anyone can say they've won or had a chance to win the Stanley Cup. How many teams in the EST timezone have a Campbell to their name in the 21st century? Montreal is alone on the mountain top of that one.
 
I guess there’s no reason not to change the way the cap is calculated then, right?

Teams that have higher taxes all want it. And boy…teams with low ones sure can’t wait to tell you that it doesn’t matter.

Should be an easy universal fix.

Good to know you’re on the side of change
Nope, there isn't a reason. For 16 years the "tax advantage" didn't matter. Florida didn't have an owner willing to spend to the cap floor (though he had to) much less spend to the cap ceiling. Nor did we have a GM willing to make the trades necessary to bring in the players that would make us a Cup contender.

Tampa had plenty of issues prior to their current owner, and I agree with this list, he's the best in the League, though the Panther's owners are right there. Ownership matters, I've lived through both sides.
 
States always find ways to get their money. In Florida, we get a lot of our budget simply by having Disney World next to Orlando and it's a cash cow. Then, at least compared to Arizona, if you use the services of a government office they nickel and dime you to death and/or because of a lack of revenue from state income tax, punt the liability for collecting revenue to the county or city level. When dealing with my driver's license and other automotive related stuff, I deal with the county tax collector's office, as opposed to Arizona where I dealt with a Department of Motor Vehicles run by the state (but Arizona state income tax isn't very high either so they also nickel and dime you).

That's a sharp contrast to my brief time in Hawaii where the state government offices don't nickel and dime you because they get a decent amount of revenue from state income tax.
Yeah Tennessee works in a similar fashion. The state gets most of its money from Sales Tax, Hotel Tax, etc. mainly because it was built around tourism, so people from outside of the state do a lot of funding. Your drivers license is handled by the state, however car registration is county based. For in stance if you are in Murfreesboro ( outside Nashville ) your car tags are going to cost you $100 a year per vehicle, meanwhile where I live just down the road its $26. Lots of counties add in " wheel tax " to fund schools.

That's how States that don't have them do it, as you say, they nickel and dime everyone, and the more you spend the more nickels and dimes they take.
 
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So I guess if your team keeps trading asset to win now, like the top 3 team listed, you win! ANH over LA, bahahaha....the only worst owner in Anaheim is Arte Moreno.
 

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