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Originally Posted by nfotiu
The NHL business model is kind of terrible. Almost a third of the teams are losing money with no hope of every making money. Business wise, the salary cap has been a windfall for the Rangers, Leafs, etc, but has made it very hard for the bottom third revenue teams to make ends meet. Add in the fact that players hate it, and they are headed towards even more labor stoppages, I don't get how anyone can see it as anything but broken.
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I don't agree with your opinion at all here. The league has issues with teams making ends meet but it's more due to half empty buildings than it is the salary cap. I fail to see how having the 90's return where half the league are icing terrible products (the young guns for example) because they can't afford to keep or sign high end players is a solution. You want to see bad hockey? Have a massive disparity between team spending and watch a team full of Clarke Wilms and Jeff Shantz playing the trap to keep the games close against big market all star teams. I assume you simply didn't watch hockey in the 90's as it was the worst era of hockey ever.