Probably what Jim Benning was doing even after those sites existed; tracking stuff manually on a giant whiteboard like a caveman. The funny thing is he was actually proud enough to boast about it:
I figured every team had something in place that was way more sophisticated and accurate than CapFriendly.
The friggin salary cap has been around for 20 years and this site hasn't.
That's incredible.
I mean, how does the NHL itself keep track of everything to know if teams are even cap compliant???
Well, the NHL tracks it for sure. It's just that the teams seem to largely track their own team, which is probably pretty basic and used for payroll etc but it appears very few teams track other teams' cap situations.
Part of me thinks "Screw the Caps for doing this!". The other part of me think this is genius of them. Literally screwing other teams and making them scramble to get something up and going. I swear running a sports team cannot be as hard as 90% of teams across the sports world make it seem.
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They probably have an intern copy and paste the data from the NHL’s site into a custom excel sheet that only a handful of team staffers know how to use. For real.
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To be fair, the NHL uses analog technology for the draft lottery because of conspiracy theorists. If they used some kind of digital tool, even more swivel-eyed loons would think the whole thing is rigged.
They are absolutely right to use a lotto machine for the lottery.
They are absolutely wrong not to livestream the draws. Instead, they think people are somehow going to be jazzed by seeing Bill Daly, The Thumb That Walks Like A Man, holding up a series of envelopes.
Hence my crack about the lotto machine being top secret technology.
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Probably what Jim Benning was doing even after those sites existed; tracking stuff manually on a giant whiteboard like a caveman. The funny thing is he was actually proud enough to boast about it:
Well, the NHL tracks it for sure. It's just that the teams seem to largely track their own team, which is probably pretty basic and used for payroll etc but it appears very few teams track other teams' cap situations.
I've said on here many times that I would consider when selling at the deadline or in the summer starting a rebuild target picks down the road from good teams now hoping those picks would increase in value.
Like Conroy adding Vegas 1st in 26. It might not be worth more, but there is a good chance they will fall down the standings by then and Conroy could hit the jackpot. It's worth the risk as their pick this year is 100% not a top 10 pick.
I use capfriendly to figure out who I would target, I'm just some guy average guy who is not employed by an NHL, just do it for fun.
NHL team do not track other teams cap is ridiculous to me and teams are buying site as it is a massive upgrade on what they have and blocks other teams from using it is just unreal.
Friedman backtracking a bit today. On the Marek show he said more teams have something in place, he just did not know of all of the teams. Calgary and Utah are other teams he knows of that have programs in place.
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Friedman backtracking a bit today. On the Marek show he said more teams have something in place, he just did not know of all of the teams. Calgary and Utah are other teams he knows of that have programs in place.
I was wondering, because that does seem like the kind of thing that Chris Snow would have taken care of.
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Friedman backtracking a bit today. On the Marek show he said more teams have something in place, he just did not know of all of the teams. Calgary and Utah are other teams he knows of that have programs in place.
Not sure he was back tracking, sounded like some team's definitely don't have anything in place.
