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Originally Posted by D as in David
I don't know how the other leagues work and putting aside the fallacy of trickle-down economics for the moment, under the NHL's cap system, that thought process is senseless. As I said in my earlier post, there's one pie per team. If some players get bigger slices, other players get smaller pieces because there is only so much pie to go around.
There isn't any complexity to this; no complex (or otherwise) economic theory changes the math. If the NHLPA is too dense to figure this out, they should be replaced.
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The NHLPA wants the pie to get bigger. They think if the higher salaries cause a cap crunch and lower the bottom end salaries, there will be pressure to increase the cap, not pay top end guys less.
Plus, the higher and mid range guys are their actual constituency over the long run. Bottom end guys are out of the league in pretty short order on the average.