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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
It's amazing how quickly things can turn in the league. Seems like the middle road players are squeezed out once their peak performance is over. Salary cap forces teams to give a kid the icetime and invest the money in star players.
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This was predicted back when the cap was first introduced - that the NHL would eventually come to be like the NBA, where each team has a few stars who command enormous salaries, and the rest of the roster is mostly cheap young players and bargain-basement journeymen. Middle of the road players have no place in that structure the moment their play drops off.