Habs year 2021

[worm]

pretty much impossible to do with a regular 82 game schedule spanning 7 months

this was the year to pull such a stunt

which is why tampa fluked out this year

and last

last year because it is obvious that opponents fans bother them so they would not have won anything with fans in the building

two covid cups for them

 

[legoalie]

They were excellent throughout the playoffs and outplayed our bottom 6 by a mile

it helps when you are $18 million over the cap

 

[GEEMAN]

it helps when you are $18 million over the cap

Like it or not they played within the silly rules the league provides

Some teams like Zona bought players to get to the floor

The Leafs traded for 11 mil in LTIR when they were over that cap amount

Kuch needed surgery and used the year to get him off the cap

The rule stinks but the league wont do squat about it

They wont jeopardize punishing teams

 

[legoalie]

Like it or not they played within the silly rules the league provides

Some teams like Zona bought players to get to the floor

The Leafs traded for 11 mil in LTIR when they were over that cap amount

Kuch needed surgery and used the year to get him off the cap

The rule stinks but the league wont do squat about it

They wont jeopardize punishing teams

I never complained about it, i know they played in the rules, it helped them

 

[GEEMAN]

I never complained about it, i know they played in the rules, it helped them

If the tide was turned and favoured us , we take it

 

[Habsy]

Yeah but it needs to be closed.

The NHL is run like a mafia family where the Capos skim just enough to not get shot.


Ie: intentional loopholes

 

[GEEMAN]

Yeah but it needs to be closed.

The NHL is run like a mafia family where the Capos skim just enough to not get shot.


Ie: intentional loopholes

yup, but where do you start

Teams will get crippled without loopholes in some form

If you restrict even more , salaries will need to drop if the cap cant get stretched

 

[Habsy]

Yeah. The problem is this is a fake construct. It's a house of cards and one day it will crash if they don't do something.

 

[worm]

it helps when you are $18 million over the cap

meanwhile the habs had like 10m in cap just watching (tatar and drouin)

 

[Habsy]

I still think Drouin could have helped us against the lightning.

 

[jeffbear]

Yeah but it needs to be closed.

The NHL is run like a mafia family where the Capos skim just enough to not get shot.


Ie: intentional loopholes

I mean, it's fairly easy. Just extend the daily Cap ceiling to the post season. It's another round of CBA negotiations, but what isn't?

That way, if a key player gets hurt and you replace him during the regular season, but the guy is ready to go for the post season then you have to make the Cap work before you can add him to the active roster. If that means you have to scratch an entire line and replace them with your AHL guys, then so be it. If another key player gets hurt in the playoffs, then you have additional flexibility. Just make rules and stick to them ... which is not something this league has always been real good at doing.

 

[Habsy]

That would be a start anyway. There are other loopholes.

 

[Sal_Butera]

Yeah but it needs to be closed.

The NHL is run like a mafia family where the Capos skim just enough to not get shot.


Ie: intentional loopholes

I mean, it's fairly easy. Just extend the daily Cap ceiling to the post season. It's another round of CBA negotiations, but what isn't?

That way, if a key player gets hurt and you replace him during the regular season, but the guy is ready to go for the post season then you have to make the Cap work before you can add him to the active roster. If that means you have to scratch an entire line and replace them with your AHL guys, then so be it. If another key player gets hurt in the playoffs, then you have additional flexibility. Just make rules and stick to them ... which is not something this league has always been real good at doing.

The irony of it all....in 2015 TBay led the crusade to close the loophole and were voted down.

 

[Habsy]

This is a great read

 

[Alan C]

I still think Drouin could have helped us against the lightning.

If anything could have got him going it was playing Tampa. Too bad, hope he gets things together in whatever is next for him.

 

[Sal_Butera]

I still think Drouin could have helped us against the lightning.

Especially for PP zone entries

 

[GEEMAN]

I mean, it's fairly easy. Just extend the daily Cap ceiling to the post season. It's another round of CBA negotiations, but what isn't?

That way, if a key player gets hurt and you replace him during the regular season, but the guy is ready to go for the post season then you have to make the Cap work before you can add him to the active roster. If that means you have to scratch an entire line and replace them with your AHL guys, then so be it. If another key player gets hurt in the playoffs, then you have additional flexibility. Just make rules and stick to them ... which is not something this league has always been real good at doing.

Will never happen

 

[Sal_Butera]

 

[lecoqsportif]

11’s place was burglarized?

 

[CH1]

11’s place was burglarized?

yeah....gallagher posted a Tok Tok about it