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Originally Posted by Oil Stain
They care about maximizing player salary.
I was debating the point that they are all about the top players. They clearly aren't.
If the NHLPA was all about getting the top players paid, there would probably be more than ZERO guys in the NHL making the max salary.
And we probably would have heard about some desire by the NHLPA to raise the max contract.
Neither of these things have happened.
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So how exactly are the two things (maximizing avg & maximizing elite salary) mutually exclusive? They are not focused on one thing or the other, they are focused on both at the same time.
If the point you are trying to make is that they care about EVERY players salary, you are doing a poor job by focusing on a lack of elite players getting paid increasing amounts within a CBA featuring a cap on salary and elite player salary.
Your point about desire to raise the Max contract holds no water AGAIN because the players never wanted a salary cap in the first place, let alone one on % of a cap. Additionally, even if they wanted to raise max contracts in the salary cap era, (who says they didn't) they have more important components of the CBA to negotiate, such as maintaining revenue share. Every CBA negotiation since 1995 they have been in a position of weakness. Their breakdown of the NHLPA combined with the salary cap only ramps up and integrates the complexity of their weak position.