Problem is nobody on the Rangers are willing to put their nuts on the table when the chips are down. No intestinal fortitude to speak of like Tkachuk.
There's always the chance that something happens that negatively impacts revenue, but there's ample evidence to suggest that the cap will rise significantly starting in 2024-25. The most recent revenue numbers are the prime indicator of future revenue. If revenue is X, the cap will be Y.
Based on this seasons projected final revenue it would have to go up to those numbers. It’s being artificially held back.
There IS evidence though. The NUMBERS. It's not mystical, it's math. The escrow WILL be paid off. The planning is obvious: you either make moves to help the team, confident that there will be cap rise as projected, or you do NOT, while everyone else DOES...
The evidence that the cap isn’t going up significantly is that it hasn’t yet and they keep saying that it’s going to happen
Has this happened yet? We’ve been hearing about big increases for years and it simply has not happened
when there’s an active known reason they’ve been keeping the cap artificially low, and that reason ends officially next season (it could’ve ended this season had they had an additional 100m in revenue), and you can do the math to identify how much the cap should be, and it’s significantly lower than it should be.
I don’t need to do math. I see that the cap hasn’t been raised significantly. Nothing to stop the NHL to keeping kicking the can like they have been.
No it has not happened yet... because it's a PROJECTION. I haven't retired yet either... but I'm GOING to. Also a projection. That is the "oddest" reasoning I've seen. The cap had gone steadily up with revenue. Then COVID hit and there were massive shortfalls that caused escrow issues. That's why no/minimal cap increases since the pandemic. That issue will be resolved during the next season, and the NUMBERS say the cap will rise significantly. Again, this isn't voodoo or hope, it's math. No one said it was going to increase before next season. And if, say, NYR and LA had been in the SCF, it might have been resolved this year. Instead it was a Final that wasn't watched and didn't up the revenue stream enough, so 24-25 it is.
Yes there is something to stop them from kicking the can: a CONTRACT. They were within their rights not to raise it yet. In 24-25 they will NOT be within their rights.
And again, nothing to stop NHL to keep kicking the fan on this. It’s wishful thinking until proven otherwise. What happens if we get a (for example) VGK x FLA rematch next year? Onto 25/26?
I mean there’s a contract. That’s what stops the nhl from doing anything but raise the cap.
I don't think they're comparable.
Because the players are still paying off their debt. It will 100% be paid off next season. It's not rocket science.
You are totally ignoring that there is a binding leagl contract and the Players Association has access to the books and very fine accountants. Again, its contractual math. If the NHL wanted to not raise it in 24-25 they'd need to demonstrate why with numbers that dont demonstrate that... It's going up.
I think we can get a 4th for him from a team like Buffalo or Detroit.
I am. Because I will believe it when I see it. I haven’t seen it, so I don’t believe it
I'm down with anything that separates Mika and Kreider.
