The NHL is miles behind other sports when it comes to internal analytics departments.
You would think the NHL would offer an official salary info database to teams that they could build off. Outside of the data itself, most developers could probably re-create 95% of the functionality of capfriendly in two weeks - its not splitting the atom in terms of what it is doing. But capfriendly is user friendly which a lot of internal tools are not which is a lot of the battle when it comes to internal tools.
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