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Originally Posted by kyuss275
It only brought the "collective amount committed to player salaries down" for one year. Next year it will be at $70 million +. So again why did they have a lockout?
If they had done the lockout properly you would not see 2nd line players making $6 million. The reason 2nd line players can make $6 million is because dumb owners and greedy agents know the cap is going to keep going up and up.
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Not really. It brought down the amount paid to the players to 50% of HRR. The cap amount doesn't matter. If the revenue is $4B then the players share will be $2B, in the old system the players share would have been $2.28B so the owners have "saved" $280M in one year. This system is the same as the NBA where the top players will get paid then the roster will be filled out by rookies (ELC) and league minimum veterans.
San Jose is transitioning away from the Thornton/Marleau/Boyle core to the new core of Couture/Pavelski/Vlasic and the old core will either take short term lower cap deals or move on to other teams. If the Flames had done this under the old cap system you would have seen Iggy/Regher etc., moved to secondary but key players with younger players assuming the top roles. Where the Flames failed was finding and playing the young guys who would eventually replace them and instead filling the roster with older free agent signings. When Iggy and the others started to decline they still had to be played as top guys because there was nobody to replace their roles.
IMO St. Louis is doing what the Flames did and are currently doing. They kept and signed older players (Tkachuk, Weight, B. Hull, MacInnis etc.,) and didn't infuse any younger talent. They had to rebuild when those players could no longer perform at their usual level of play. They have rebuilt to a point with their current core of players but are now having to pay them all and within a few years their core will again be aging without young talent being ready to take over. I believe that teams need to look at Detroit as an example of a team that has a main core but every year seem to add one or two players who have developed in the system so those players are ready to take over from the veteran core (Yzerman/Fedorov to Datsyuk/Zetterberg). That way you don't pay our second line players $6M a season until they are actually ready to take over the heavy load, which the San Jose guys are doing.