The OG NHL thread: The Cup worth biting for

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chocoloco said:

amp316 said:

chocoloco said:

theRepublic said:

chocoloco said:

GMs are discussing the rules soon, it should be interesting to see if there are many changes. I say eliminate the salary cap again. As the avs are owned by the Super rich Walmart partial owner Stan Kronke, who will pay his way to the best team if he could. He did it before the salary cap.

Oh God, I hope this doesn't happen.  This would be the fastest way to ruin the game.

Not much of an explanation of why? Ever sincce it was implemented all the teams become closer in level of ability and caused hardly any teams to stand out causing these very close races for the playoffs like they one we a re especially seein gthis year in the west were about 6 teams have almost identical record and only about two or them will make it well the others will barely miss it.

I didn't mind it either Loco as the Hawks bought the Cup two years ago.  :p

It does suck if you have a small market team though or a cheap owner.  I will say that. 

The hawks did it by getting a lot of high draft picks years back, some smart trading and by  building a team that was young up together, when they were horrible for many years (washington did the same). I suppose that is what you are alluding to. XD Actually is the same thing the avs are currently attempting, but it takes a lot of time to reach elite status. Clearly my wish will never happen as it would harm many teams financially especially the smallest Candian markets.

Buying teams clearly does not always work as the Rangers famously failed at it for years. haha

My sarcasm didn't get by you.  The Avs actually are doing a very good job putting together a good young team.  Let's see if they can keep them together.  I am kind of pulling for them to make the playoffs since I used to like the team in the days of Forsberg and Roy.  It's been a while since they've competed.

Money doesn't always work, but it often did for the team whose avatar you have.