Ok we had our fun. just saying, a compliance buyout wouldn't make sense. It would just be giving free stuff to teams like Toronto, Boston and Vegas. Also it would just be giving a boost to teams with bad contracts (Loui Eriksson). If the cap is reduced. The player contracts will be reduced
If the cap is reduced, player contracts will reduced? That’s not happening lol
If the cap doesn’t go up, a compliance buyout makes sense and it would help plenty of teams.
Quoting: papishark
NHLPA will not agree to lower contracts
Its happened before. Why can't they do it again. If you reduce the salary cap by 11%, you can reduce player salaries by 11%.
It just doesn't make sense and what other options does the league have if their losing money
If the cap is reduced, player contracts will reduced? That’s not happening lol
If the cap doesn’t go up, a compliance buyout makes sense and it would help plenty of teams.
I disagree with your characterization of "plenty." A buyout would ensconce Tampa Bay at the top of the Eastern Conference for the next 4 or 5 years (because they could use one and trade one) and help a few teams: Vancouver (Eriksson), Calgary (Lucic), Edmonton (Neal), Minnesota (Rask), Montreal (Alzner), the Islanders (Boychuk), Buffalo (Okposo), San Jose (take your pick) and maybe the Rangers (Smith, or Lundqvist if they want him to go), Winnipeg (Little?) and Columbus (Dubinsky?). That's fewer than half the teams in the League. A buyout would have little or no benefit for the other teams except indirectly (i.e., if they could accept a buyout candidate from another team, but there aren't many teams who have TWO buyout candidates).
The NHLPA is either going to give buyouts, raise the cap slightly .1 maybe or will have to re negotiate to prevent a lockout cause with this pandemic whatever was agreed to in the past is probably void now
I disagree with your characterization of "plenty." A buyout would ensconce Tampa Bay at the top of the Eastern Conference for the next 4 or 5 years (because they could use one and trade one) and help a few teams: Vancouver (Eriksson), Calgary (Lucic), Edmonton (Neal), Minnesota (Rask), Montreal (Alzner), the Islanders (Boychuk), Buffalo (Okposo), San Jose (take your pick) and maybe the Rangers (Smith, or Lundqvist if they want him to go), Winnipeg (Little?) and Columbus (Dubinsky?). That's fewer than half the teams in the League. A buyout would have little or no benefit for the other teams except indirectly (i.e., if they could accept a buyout candidate from another team, but there aren't many teams who have TWO buyout candidates).
Pittsburgh - Jack Johnston
Florida - Matheson , yandle , bobrovsky
Washington - Oshie , Jensen
Nashville - turris
Chicago - seabrook, maata ,
St. Louis - bozak
Carolina - staal
Flyers - voracek, JVR
Devils - subban
Red wings - Nielsen
Pittsburgh - Jack Johnston
Florida - Matheson , yandle , bobrovsky
Washington - Oshie , Jensen
Nashville - turris
Chicago - seabrook, maata ,
St. Louis - bozak
Carolina - staal
Flyers - voracek, JVR
Devils - subban
Red wings - Nielsen
Lmao with the JVR and Bob contracts those shouldnt be able to count cuz they were just signed last year. Crazy how drastic a **** up can be in just 1 year
I disagree with your characterization of "plenty." A buyout would ensconce Tampa Bay at the top of the Eastern Conference for the next 4 or 5 years (because they could use one and trade one) and help a few teams: Vancouver (Eriksson), Calgary (Lucic), Edmonton (Neal), Minnesota (Rask), Montreal (Alzner), the Islanders (Boychuk), Buffalo (Okposo), San Jose (take your pick) and maybe the Rangers (Smith, or Lundqvist if they want him to go), Winnipeg (Little?) and Columbus (Dubinsky?). That's fewer than half the teams in the League. A buyout would have little or no benefit for the other teams except indirectly (i.e., if they could accept a buyout candidate from another team, but there aren't many teams who have TWO buyout candidates).
MN has plenty of cap space. They really don't need a compliance buyout now.
3-4 years ago they could have used one though. The cap hell of the flat caps screwed them then. The response from the league was basically "I guess you shouldn't have handed out all those big/dumb contracts, deal with it." CHI knows this better than anyone, they had to spend a lot of equity to stay cap compliant by dumping contracts on other teams.
Lmao with the JVR and Bob contracts those shouldnt be able to count cuz they were just signed last year. Crazy how drastic a **** up can be in just 1 year
I think FLA would buyout matheson/yandle over bob . JVR is still a solid player (he’s in year 2 of a 5 year deal) but he’s replaceable with the young players PHI has
Pittsburgh - Jack Johnston
Florida - Matheson , yandle , bobrovsky
Washington - Oshie , Jensen
Nashville - turris
Chicago - seabrook, maata ,
St. Louis - bozak
Carolina - staal
Flyers - voracek, JVR
Devils - subban
Red wings - Nielsen
I left out Chicago. You're right there.
The Florida GM can't buy Bobrovsky out. That's an open admission that he's capable of that bad a mistake. That's professional suicide.
Other teams at the bottom of the salary list don't have any pressure to move even big tickets, so they don't make the "help" list.
Most of the other guys you mention don't have that substantial an effect on their team, so the buyout doesn't help them significantly; in my mind, it's merely a nice plus factor.