Bettman: "Salary Cap will NOT go down next year"; and GMHockey investigates NHL attendance

shabbs wrote:

Cap'n Clutch wrote:It would be interesting to see what the 08/09 line looked like with all of it's fluctuations like you have with 09/10.

I'm sure Doug MacLean has one.

And next year, I'll have one too. Then we can play together.

wprager wrote:

shabbs wrote:

Cap'n Clutch wrote:It would be interesting to see what the 08/09 line looked like with all of it's fluctuations like you have with 09/10.

I'm sure Doug MacLean has one.

And next year, I'll have one too. Then we can play together.

I can't wait for 2010/11 to see the comparison. Yeah that's it. For the comparison. Not because I can't stand watching the Sens get pummeled.

shabbs wrote:Considering the economic trend the world is experiencing, it's natural to assume the cap will go down... but the calculation is likely highly complex and can probably be manipulated to ensure that they can control the swing to ensure the cap moves according to their "plan". Call me a skeptic... but that's how I see it.

HA! Look at this... and the Salary Cap goes UP yet again.

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=325481

Man... mark my word... we could have a world war with a nuclear holocaust and the NHL's salary cap would STILL GO UP. Book it.

Having the NHLPA vote for a 5% bonus increase pretty much guarantees a bump in the cap every year that they can do so, it would seem.

rooneypoo wrote:Having the NHLPA vote for a 5% bonus increase pretty much guarantees a bump in the cap every year that they can do so, it would seem.

Indeed. Sneaky move...

Last night's game in Arizona -- someone described it as a "Friends and Family Night". The official attendance was 6,706. No, there's no digits missing.

Yeah, there's been some bad attendance the last few days... wowzers. ATL and CBJ has some pretty low numbers as well the other night.

If these figures are true, some teams have problems that far outweigh their cap situations:

http://espn.go.com/nhl/attendance

Look at NJ at 13,945. How do you even make enough money to pay for a maxed out roster and a brand new building?

Look at the Oilers, Lightning and Avalanche. Not even exciting young teams and good starts to the season can get them sell outs. Yikes.

PKC wrote:If these figures are true, some teams have problems that far outweigh their cap situations:

http://espn.go.com/nhl/attendance

Look at NJ at 13,945. How do you even make enough money to pay for a maxed out roster and a brand new building?

Look at the Oilers, Lightning and Avalanche. Not even exciting young teams and good starts to the season can get them sell outs. Yikes.

Oilers *are* selling out.

18 Oilers 3 50,517 16,839 100.0

Are you looking at the wrong year?

http://espn.go.com/nhl/attendance/_/year/2011

With Centre Ice I've seen a lot of hockey in the last week. I can't believe how empty some of the arenas are!

Sort by percentage, makes it easier to see who's at the bottom:

http://espn.go.com/nhl/attendance/_/sort/homePct

wprager wrote:

PKC wrote:If these figures are true, some teams have problems that far outweigh their cap situations:

http://espn.go.com/nhl/attendance

Look at NJ at 13,945. How do you even make enough money to pay for a maxed out roster and a brand new building?

Look at the Oilers, Lightning and Avalanche. Not even exciting young teams and good starts to the season can get them sell outs. Yikes.

Oilers *are* selling out.

18 Oilers 3 50,517 16,839 100.0

Are you looking at the wrong year?

http://espn.go.com/nhl/attendance/_/year/2011

So the Oilers have the smallest capacity arena in the league? How do they only sit 16,839?