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Anonymous
I don't like the salary cap. I'm sure it makes games more exciting for teams who have been in the shitter for years and now finally have a chance to compete with "The big boys," but for the rest of us, it's less exciting. Players are shuffled around to make room for the high salary super-stars, so it's rare you'll see the same core of players stick around and continue a rivalry because they genuinely hate each other.

Detroit/Colorado will never be as intense for anyone but the fans.

What are the advantages to salary caps? Why do leagues implement them?
>> Anonymous
>>304275
It applies to any team. These were just my examples.

What say you? Responses, thoughts?
>> Anonymous
>>304279
The cap is needed. Do you really want a Yankee-like team in the NHL? Fuck no.
>> Anonymous
>>304283

and exactly how well are the Yankees doing this year?
>> Anonymous
I love a salary cap. I like to watch teams compete fairly. Uneven salary makes that impossible.
>> Anonymous
>>304299
Every team just shuffles around players until they have a good mix for 2-5 years, then starts over again as a shitty club for 5 years until they can get the right mix again.

It's bullshit.
>> Anonymous
>>304306
What's the alternative? Building dynasties through the draft? Hopelessly naive.
>> Anonymous
>>304316
I guess a good cap system would be a very high team salary cap, with the current player salary cap.

This would insure that you could afford to keep your core players, and that one team would not become the Yankees.
>> Anonymous
>>304327
???

'splain.
>> Anonymous
>>304329
As it stands now, a player can't earn more than 20% of the teams salary cap, which at 50 million, works out to 10 million dollars. I say we fuck percentages and make the player cap a hard number. 10 million is good.

Lets say we increase the salary cap to 80 million dollars, and have a player cap of 10 million. This has many advantages

- Allows teams more freedom to keep core players so they don't have to shuffle around guys to keep their superstars.
- Keeps rivalries intact with same core players
- Won't let teams buy a championship like the Yankees try to do
- Good teams stay good for longer.
>> Anonymous
I don't get it either, the Yankees aren't that dominant, they only won 26 world series and 39 pennants in 100 and someodd years, and none of the big rich cities are that big on hockey anyway

Maybe they'll take it out when Russia starts taking all our good players
>> Anonymous
What happens to all the extra money clubs make when a salary cap is put in place, like if one was implemented in baseball would Steinbrenner be forced to pay himself 800 billion a year or what
>> Anonymous
>>304374
I... don't know.

Maybe that's why leagues implement caps. More money for rich cities because they spent less to compete?