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Originally Posted by FireFly
Do people honestly think that if the NHL shrunk due to lack of popularity, Calgary could still afford to compete? Think about it. If you remove the bottom 10 teams, that's roughly the lowest 250 players off the rungs. The cap goes down and salaries go down with it? Hmmmm, me thinks that it'll be a tough sell and the average salary would likely go up, pricing the NHL right out of even more markets. Calgary and Edmonton being two of them.
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Salaries go down when work is scarce, not up. Take the lower 250 players out of the league and suddenly those guys that were in the middle become the lower 250, and the minors are full of newly minted "bubble" players chomping at the bit and willing to play for league minimum.