The salary midpoint (from which the floor and ceiling are determined) is the players share (50% currently) of all Hockey Related Revenue from the previous season - divided by the number of teams of course. This is optionally inflated by up to 5% at the players discretion, with a certain percentage of their salaries… Read more
This is the predictable result of counting on increased escrow (which the players hate but will opt for time and again when they know specifically which of their brethren will be out of a job if the cap fails to rise the next offseason) to bring up the cap in previous years, all because GMs can’t keep their houses in… Read more
Ray Ferrero commented on TSN 690 yesterday that the timing is due to the final calculations of hockey related revenue following the final being completed. Not to say that it’s an acceptable situation, but that’s the explanation.
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Great playoffs; shitty management - it’s the NHL way! Read more
I coach and am on my town’s recreation committee that oversees all of our youth sports in town. The sad part is it needs to get this bad to get noticed. Read more
I coach little league baseball and softball. Currently, there is a drastic umpire shortage in our area because this type of behavior has become the norm. It’s not worth the stress and risk of possibly being attacked for $60. These idiots think that a bad call in a little league game is going to cost their kid a… Read more
Karlsson is an all-world talent, but his age, term and injury history may have the Sharks pining for Skrastins’s cap flexibility one day.
Ray Ratto believes some sports league will within the next five years learn how to monetize hell. Read more
Sean Avery tried to bring this to the NHL. It was not so warmly received.
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I feel like a more appropriate headline would be “Does kawhi leonard want?”
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If I had to take a wild guess, probably lots of zeroes... and ones... 1001001101001101001100010100. Read more
At the end of the day you have to decide how much you are going to embarrass yourself to get one of these guys to sign. The Knicks and Lakers organizations acting like desperate divorcee’s, the Clippers firing Bruce Bowen for, heaven forbid, taking Leonard to task for his lack of accountability in San Antonio. This is… Read more
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If Kawhi leaves just build him a statue anyway. Read more
I’m not a NBA historian, has this ever happened before? “It” being the star player on a championship team leaving that team because that’s what they decided to do before winning it all? This feels unprecedented but someone feel free to correct me.
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Have to admit that reading this was genuinely surprising. Usually you see spikes of support in their homelands for when women’s teams are doing well, but this is painting a really dire picture. I knew that there wasn’t a lot of expectations for the current team, which might explain some of this, but the writer does… Read more
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Laffs fan here. Watching Marchand have a defensive aneurysm at the end of the first resulting in the second goal, then losing the game, then crying on the bench, then crying at the press conference....I feel like WE won the cup as well.
I feel warm, I feel fuzzy, and my outlook on life is rosy.
Thank you St. Louis.… Read more
Bruins, especially Chara, definItely committed the most non-called penalties in fucking NHL playoff history. Sit the fuck down or go cry somewhere else. Read more
Been with this team 46 times around the sun and it really doesn’t seem real. The rug is always pulled at some point, usually in the second round at some distant western arena.
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Rule change! Only one team gets to enjoy the timeout. The other team has to do jumping jacks until the timeout ends. Real ones too. It’s a technical if someone just moves their arms up and down and doesn’t actually jump. Read more