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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
If anything the salary cap places emphasis on drafting and player development and rewards the best managed and run teams. When you look at the management situations over the last decade+ from Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal over the years is it really any surprise why Canadian teams haven't won Stanley Cups? Canadian team owners have simply done a terrible job hiring the right people to run their clubs.
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The Oilers have proven that no matter how fair you make it incompetence fails but all the other teams are rewarded by good drafting but mostly luck. Even the scouts are just taking their best guess and the NHL teams cross fingers and hope these junior and college teams do a good job and that the players physically grow and mature without really having any control over it
The NHL doesn't really develop players at all... They rely on those other leagues and systems to do it. Some guys get a year or two in the A, less than half the league - and most of the difference makers come straight into the league from the chl, ncaa or europe.
The A is a violent league with crappy travel and low skill and for every Josh Anderson who developed there there are probably 2 or 3 nhlers who either came straight in or just survived the A.