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Originally Posted by ricardodw
This is pretty close to the kind of post that I have come to expect from you.
How many people in a hot bed of hockey like Calgary would be able to explain even the most rudimentary mechanism of the salary cap calculations?
maybe 5000-10000 out of the 500,000+ people that consider themselves Hockey/Flames fans.
The rest of them would find it ridiculous to say someone was announced at getting a 7M contract and was only expecting to get paid 4 Million.
Out of the 10,000 of us OCD-Level fans that would understand the mechanism of the cap system there is a fair percentage that would be against keeping the funny-money cap at 80M plus when the negotiated deal says it should be 40-50M .
The NHL and Flames don't have to worry about the 10,000 OCD nerds.... they need the 500,000 to feel comfortable with the way the league is run.
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How many of those +500,000 hockey fans pay even close enough attention to know about the existence of escrow? I expect that for the vast majority of these people they simple don't care, and are happy to watch games without puzzling about whether players are taking home 90% or 60% of their salaries.
In the end, this is not going to be the thing that makes or breaks the NHL.