JackStraw

Things I Can't Do in Hockey, by Duncan Keith

Stupid thread is stupid. The NHL salary cap is not going away. Deal with it.

You're such a Dork.

This is a brilliant idea. Simply brilliant.

How about this, for every game the richer team starts with a one goal advantage?

This basically sounds like what MLB has with the "luxury tax". For years the Yankees were paying a nice chunk of the payrolls of small market teams like the Marlins and Rays. But it doesn't really level the playing field. The big market teams still have a big advantage in paying the big salaries to the top players. This doesn't really sound like much of a salary cap at all. So the Flyers (who can afford it) go over the cap. The cap increases for the Coyotes, who couldn't afford to spend to the cap in the first place. How is that making things equitable? If the Flyers go over the cap by 6 or 10 million, that's chump change for Comcast. The luxury tax idea makes more sense in that it at least gives the poorer teams more actual money to spend.

I tend to agree. Chicago will have some trouble after this season, they will lose some players, but hockeysfuture ranks their prospects 7th in the league: http://www.hockeysfuture.com/team-rankings/ They went through this to some extent after winning in 2010 and they bounced back. My guess is that as long as they have the big three of Toes, Kane, and Keith they will be contenders.

Toronto was the team that was excluded. They weren't the Leafs then, and I've already forgotten the name that I looked up yesterday

I remember reading about this but can't remember the details. Edit: just looked it up and I got the excluded city right. Would never have gotten the owner or team name.

I like "it's only a flesh wound!" (multiple posts)

And if you have some time to kill, and want a few laughs, this thread is solid gold: http://hfboards.hockeysfuture.com/showthread.php?t=1847917

Here's a youtube video condensing some of the excitement from last night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL78awC-UVE&t=12

I'm not sure because I tuned in late but on hfboards people were saying that Scottie Upshall might actually have gone to the locker room to put on goalie gear after Montoya was hurt.

lol... yeah, something like that. You have to give both Luongo and Montoya credit, they both "took one for the team" last night.

I watched some of that. I don't know what happened to Montoya but apparently he could barely move after getting hurt. He was standing in the crease like one of those wood goalie cutouts. Then Luongo reappears. Weird stuff.