Salary Cap: Pens Summer Salary Thread: We Hayes Dubas's offseason moves so far

[CheckingLineCenter]

Fairly certain I could build the cap part of cap friendly in excel but idk how to link in the stats or do all the cool functions for fans on the website part

Point being it’s insane a team needed to buy them hahaha. Just have an intern set up an excel model. I just imagine a bunch of hockey dudes that have no idea how to use MS Office being like “let’s spend millions to fix this blind spot”

 

[Ryder71]

Puckpedia is ROUGH

More like it sucks!

 

[Jacob]

The Washington Capitals are demons from hell.

 

[Sideline]

Fairly certain I could build the cap part of cap friendly in excel but idk how to link in the stats or do all the cool functions for fans on the website part

Point being it’s insane a team needed to buy them hahaha. Just have an intern set up an excel model. I just imagine a bunch of hockey dudes that have no idea how to use MS Office being like “let’s spend millions to fix this blind spot”

I was literally thinking a good trading floor intern could build a perfect cap friendly clone if the NHL had a database of the raw information and an API to access it.

This is just straight up a case of the NHL hating their most devoted fans.

 

[Andy99]

I know the Caps brought a lot of players in, but they seem to have overdone it a bit... even once they put Backstrom on LTIR, they'll still be almost $5M over the Cap. Unless someone else expected to go on LTIR for the full year, they're going to need to unload a player or two.

Oshie is also going on LTIR…good chance he never plays again with his back

 

[OnMyOwn]

It was utterly hilarious how we were attached to Chychrun and JT Miller and then we got this..

https://x.com/i/web/status/1631095140985995266

I dont get worked up over the pens much anymore. This core has done more than enough for me, IMO.

But oh boy was I f***ing livid when that trade happened and immediately called for Hextall’s head. I actually gave him some credit up to that point. Especially with a good Raks trade the year prior. But that season and deadline did it for me.

 

[CheckingLineCenter]

I was literally thinking a good trading floor intern could build a perfect cap friendly clone if the NHL had a database of the raw information and an API to access it.

This is just straight up a case of the NHL hating their most devoted fans.

Yeah just sucks we can’t use roster builder and armchair GM anymore when it seems most of the practicality for a team isn’t with that stuff and it’s fun for fans.

But that is why my working theory is that that Caps roster guys wanted a an easy way to play with potential trades and signings in and were using CapFriendly features to do so

 

[Ryder71]

The core wanted Sullivan to stay, so with all the Sullivan hate 'round here, why doesn't the core get any of the blame?

I guess we can pick which villains we want and forego that stigma with players we like? Even if they themselves are culpable?

 

[Freeptop]

Well the proof is in the results. If I'm a fan of the Patriots, I didn't care Robert Kraft hired his sons.
Now if I'm a fan of the Penguins and Sully brings in people he used to work with, then I'm gonna be pissed off bc Sully hasn't done jack all for almost a decade

I'll note I didn't make the same comment about hiring Quinn

 

[AuroraBorealis]

The core wanted Sullivan to stay, so with all the Sullivan hate 'round here, why doesn't the core get any of the blame?

I guess we can pick which villains we want and forego that stigma with players we like? Even if they themselves are culpable?

Because the GM shouldn't decide based on what the players like. They should decide based on who they think gives them the best chance to win hockey games.

There have been some Cup winning coaches in the past who weren't the easiest to deal with. Torts got way more out of Philly last year than almost any coach would.

You do what you gotta do. Gotta stop worrying about feelings so much. Players often dunno what's best for them and the team. Can't rely on their input about this. They will often take the path of least resistance.

 

[TheGoldenJet]

The core wanted Sullivan to stay, so with all the Sullivan hate 'round here, why doesn't the core get any of the blame?

I guess we can pick which villains we want and forego that stigma with players we like? Even if they themselves are culpable?

Which member of the core is going to openly say anything negative about the coach?

Is the core responsible for coaching staff personnel decisions?

 

[Randy Butternubs]

I was literally thinking a good trading floor intern could build a perfect cap friendly clone if the NHL had a database of the raw information and an API to access it.

This is just straight up a case of the NHL hating their most devoted fans.

I mean, I've got a large spreadsheet just for the Penguins. But I don't have access to the daily roster moves to make it too useful.

 

[SEALBound]

Fairly certain I could build the cap part of cap friendly in excel but idk how to link in the stats or do all the cool functions for fans on the website part

Point being it’s insane a team needed to buy them hahaha. Just have an intern set up an excel model. I just imagine a bunch of hockey dudes that have no idea how to use MS Office being like “let’s spend millions to fix this blind spot”

Yeah, it can be built in excel pretty easy. That's what HockeyBuzz did. The calculators and automatic cap and contract info is where it gets tough. With that, they hired the entire staff so I assume they will continue to work and update the site just like normal. That's where it gets tough.

It's no different that any large company buying a smaller company to bolster weaknesses.

Not that I don't like what I do now but I wish I would have skipped some of my other degrees and went hard to stats so that I could have done a website like Capfriendly or be in FO for Cap/Stats/RM/etc.

 

[BusinessGoose]

How did cap friendly get all the contract details, in the first place?

I know nhl is more open with disclosing terms than, generally, than many other sports, but the press releases also tend to not give every detail.

Did they have contacts and will those contacts still share directly since they're Caps employees now?

 

[Randy Butternubs]

Not sure if this will work but here's an old salary cap tracker of mine (I stopped tracking in December 2022):

 

[SEALBound]

Not sure if this will work but here's an old salary cap tracker of mine (I stopped tracking in December 2022):

I'm pretty sure capfriendly started of as a web-integrated excel sheet.

 

[IcedCapp]

given this board's collective inability to carry on normal conversations or recognize social cues, i'm surprised anyone needs a cap friendly and we aren't all simply keeping perfect track of all of the numbers in our head.

 

[Empoleon8771]

given this board's collective inability to carry on normal conversations or recognize social cues, i'm surprised anyone needs a cap friendly and we aren't all simply keeping perfect track of all of the numbers in our head.

This board definitely has autism but just not that kind of autism

 

[KrisLetAngry]

This board definitely has autism but just not that kind of autism

I get pretty darn close to cap hits for players.

 

[Empoleon8771]

I get pretty darn close to cap hits for players.

Honestly I know the cap hits of everyone on the Penguins within +/- $250k

 

[HandshakeLine]

given this board's collective inability to carry on normal conversations or recognize social cues, i'm surprised anyone needs a cap friendly and we aren't all simply keeping perfect track of all of the numbers in our head.

Numbers are fake, and math is a lie foisted upon us by the alphabet agencies!

Honestly I know the cap hits of everyone on the Penguins within +/- $250k

Emp, given that every year we make some dumb cap mistake because the FO doesn't know their own numbers, I think you should hire out for seven digits as a consultant to them.

 

[SEALBound]

Numbers are fake, and math is a lie foisted upon us by the alphabet agencies!

 

[Tom Hanks]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1811073550343881087

 

[HandshakeLine]

I wanna see my fellow posters get PAID.

Oh dark mode, that's really what the problem was.

 

[Empoleon8771]

Emp, given that every year we make some dumb cap mistake because the FO doesn't know their own numbers, I think you should hire out for seven digits as a consultant to them.

Reminds me of this tweet:

https://x.com/i/web/status/585908315823206400