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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
The simplest method would set the cap itself at 50% HRR and have the owners top up since not every team would spend to it. So instead of $63.5 million being the midpoint (ignoring the escalator), it becomes the cap. The players would really hate that since it would have meant a $10 million decrease in the cap if such a plan were implemented this year.
Not since Goodenow overplayed his hand in 2004-05, no. Sports labour negotiations is in a rather interesting place right now where, after decades of ownership controlling everything with an iron fist, and the pendulum swinging wildly in the players' favour, it is starting to swing back. How long it progresses back to ownerships' side before the players reach a point of their own where they are willing to go to the wall is unknown.
It seems pretty clear that the NHLPA is going to try and break linkage in the next negotiation. I don't see the owners going for it unless the cap itself swings wildly into their favour.
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How can the cap be 50% of HRR when we don't know what HRR is until the season is finished? Unless we are linking it to the previous year's HRR or the average of the last several years?
If the players are looking to get rid of linkage then we're looking at the longest lockout yet.