The OG NHL thread: The Cup worth biting for

[theRepublic]

chocoloco said:

theRepublic 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 since it was implemented all the teams became closer in level of ability and caused hardly any teams to stand out, causing these very close races for the playoffs like we see especially this year in the West were about 6 teams have almost identical records and only about two or them will make it well the others will barely miss it.

I'm not really sure what you are saying here.  All of that sounds great to me.

I want close competition.  I don't want teams to be able to just spend and spend and spend to make themselves good.  You might as well just contract every small market team if you are just going to put them at a competitive disadvantage.

Hey man it is only my dream, in my semi-small market of Denver, ranked 21st biggest in size in the USA which is about medium size compared to many markets in the NHL. My team happens to have a really rich owner that used to spend, spend, spend to have the best team every year, so of course I am being selfish. I still say, in terms of looking at the league as a whole, when most of the teams are too close on skill level (too much parity), the league is boring and many teams barely miss the playoffs. That is this leagues current situation since the salary cap. the removal of the salary cap will probably never happen, but I still think it makes more entertaining hockey. That meaning the Avalanche have tons of super stars. Yeah, that is me greedy for another cup.

I know who Kronke is.  He owns the St. Louis Rams, and I grew up in St. Louis.

I don't think there is too much parity.  I'm not sure that is even possible.  We have teams over 100 points, and we have teams in the 70s.  We even have a team that may not make it to 60 points.  Quality is all over the place.