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Originally Posted by FanIn80
Wasn’t the whole point of the cap that it was supposed to be a 50/50 split of revenue? Now the players want to detach it from revenue in order to lessen effects of escrow? Wouldn't that just enable a potential split in the owners favour?
I mean it’s possible I’m over-simplifying and or missing something, but right now I’m wondering what the big fight was all about during the lockout.
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The players escalated the cap beyond the revenue targets which helped subsidize other players but in the end cost the best players lots of cash.
In essence they want to re-couple HRR and the cap to lose as little money to escrow as possible.
Because the league is hurting badly for revenue and demographic growth, that means restricting how high the cap can get.
It looks like 81 million might more or less be the hard cap for several years due to the lack of revenue growth from the league side of the equation.
IMO, it's just another in a series of league failures and if I was a player I'd be pretty annoyed that my earnings potential is tied to a league with the worst branding and marketing of any north american sport.
https://twitter.com/user/status/1168707279035731968
I wrote a post about this a couple of years ago and things have only gotten worse for the league since then:
https://forum.calgarypuck.com/showth...ic#post6281216
Having the cap stall out because the league missed their revenue projections should be a much bigger story than it is.
If you're not growing, you're dying.