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Around the League 2019-2026 Edition

The NHL needs to turf its current management asap. The whole system built by Bettman has created a joke on the ice, all in the name of never-ending expansion. Fake parity screws the competitive balance in games non-stop (even ups, discretionary calls, etc.). They don't give a toss about protecting the safety of players.
 
How would you address it anyway? Even if you allowed the Canadian teams extra space to compensate that would only benefit Montreal and Toronto. Maybe Vancouver.
 
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Habsy said:
How would you address it anyway? Even if you allowed the Canadian teams Eva space to compensate that would only benefit Montreal and Toronto. Maybe Vancouver.
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You can't and shouldn't address it IMO.
Any advantages teams can legally use, go for it...that includes all the things MLSE can do that so many others can't...


-so tax-free states are an incentive? ok, so is front-loading contracts...stop whining about that (teams that can't do it)
 
Weird that Lou gets so much shit around here and Dubas gets blown at every turn. I think the Isles feel okay to have the over the hill boomer on their side as they head to the conference finals.
 
Habsy said:
How would you address it anyway? Even if you allowed the Canadian teams extra space to compensate that would only benefit Montreal and Toronto. Maybe Vancouver.
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Seems like you could address it by making a player’s actual take-home salary (not counting escrow) their cap hit. That’d level the playing field.

Or alternatively, I’d have less issues with leaving things the way they are if the rest of the league wasn’t so whiny when the Leafs look for loopholes or ways to leverage their own situation to their advantage.


Killer93 said:
Soft cap/luxury tax system is the way to go. That or allow teams to go over the cap by a certain percentage to re-sign drafted players
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I’d be good with this too. Never really liked seeing teams get punished for drafting & developing well.
 
Killer93 said:
Soft cap/luxury tax system is the way to go. That or allow teams to go over the cap by a certain percentage to re-sign drafted players
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Nothing wrong with the system , 80+ is plenty to try to make 20 players millionaires

Teams make bad decisions , and wont make tough ones or the right call
 
leaffan2005 said:
Weird that Lou gets so much shit around here and Dubas gets blown at every turn. I think the Isles feel okay to have the over the hill boomer on their side as they head to the conference finals.
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Lou got credit for the good things he did while here much like Dubas gets criticized for his bad ones

A quick scroll back through the threads and you easily find the posts
 
LeafGm said:
Seems like you could address it by making a player’s actual take-home salary (not counting escrow) their cap hit. That’d level the playing field.

Or alternatively, I’d have less issues with leaving things the way they are if the rest of the league wasn’t so whiny when the Leafs look for loopholes or ways to leverage their own situation to their advantage.





I’d be good with this too. Never really liked seeing teams get punished for drafting & developing well.
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we're getting punished for signing a ufa to a massive cap hit and not for drafting and developing well , even with Dubas getting bent over by our rfa's we'd still be fine if he didn't sign JT
 
lou did a shit job wasting the best collection of elc talent in the league. That's the plain truth.
 
It's annoying that teams like the Islanders can succeed. That's a big reason what's wrong with the NHL. If they stuck to the rules teams wouldn't be able to build and play like this.
 
LeafGm said:
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I don't put much into this at all. You have to be a very good organization aside from any tax advantage. And really, Stars last made the finals 20 years ago. Vegas' success has clearly nothing to do with tax advantages. They had the biggest advantage by far of any expansion team in history with the expansion rules. And Where has the Panthers gone with their advantage? They overpaid hilariously with Bobrovsky.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
What's wrong with how they built?
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Because refs never make the same calls in the playoffs as regular season, it really does allow teams to win with lesser talent by chopping, hooking and holding. I've been complaining about this for a quarter century. NHL is the only sport that does this. The NHL has always been fine with resticting their star players from fully performing and allowing these boring defensive trap teams to play this way to make fake parity It's been a dumb business model. It started right after Betteman became commish.
 
JackBurton said:
I don't put much into this at all. You have to be a very good organization aside from any tax advantage. And really, Stars last made the finals 20 years ago. Vegas' success has clearly nothing to do with tax advantages. They had the biggest advantage by far of any expansion team in history with the expansion rules. And Where has the Panthers gone with their advantage? They overpaid hilariously with Bobrovsky.
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Vegas took advantage of the fools who handed them a contending roster , not the rules

Teams protected the wrong players , made dumb side bets and you simply cant hand them Tuch or Theodore in the process

Florida handed them 2 top 6 players ....pathetic
 
GEEMAN said:
Vegas took advantage of the fools who handed them a contending roster , not the rules

Teams protected the wrong players , made dumb side bets and you simply cant hand them Tuch or Theodore in the process

Florida handed them 2 top 6 players ....pathetic
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No doubt they were helped. Just stating the rules helped them more than any expansion team. It's lazy to claim no state taxes has helped them in their 3 years.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
Yeah, the built as well as they could under the circumstances, but the reffing in the playoffs is a joke.
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I don't blame him or anyone for building that way, but it's really a shame the star players aren't able to show their best a lot of the times and the best talent can't win more. I like "Upsets", but it feels rather forced and the entire parity kind of fake.
 
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