I personally feel like instead of nickel and diming your staff, find efficiencies elsewhere where you can save a lot more money. Talk that a team like Pittsburgh is aiming for a $70 million internal cap, for example. It makes more business sense knowing that sports will be one of the last things to recover, because if you roll back your staff at 20% until things are back to "normal" (next April maybe?) one by one, they're going to find jobs elsewhere, particularly when you consider that sports generally pays less than real world market value anyway.
This goes especially if you're a bubble team. What's the point of spending to the cap when you can't play in front of fans anyway? A team like New Jersey only has $55 million committed with 8 roster spots to go. Just commit $10 million to those 8 spots and call it a day, keep your staff and you'll be much better positioned coming out of it than a team like Ottawa who's probably going to lose almost everyone.
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