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The showdown will be over whether the players will take a $31 cap and still have 30 teams, or have no cap and have 24 teams.
Nashville has done it right, built a playoff contender and still only draws 12,000. So Nashville, Florida, Pittsburgh, Carolina, Tampa, Phoenix, Calgary, Edmonton and Buffalo would be in trouble.
C'mon Dougie, the NHL would never leave Montreal or Boston.
During the 90 minute delay to the Bruin/Islander game (hole in the ice) they filled in a lot of time talking about the upcoming lockout.
One writer (don't remember who) said the only way around a salary cap is to lower the free agency age from 31 0-to say 26-27, but get rid of guaranteed contracts. Right now a team can dump a contract but still has to pay 2/3rds the value. Go NFL style with non-guaranteed money and the writer thinks the labor woes go away.
I don't buy it. Maybe a loose cap, with the ability to go over to re-sign your own guys (like the old NBA cap) and/or a baseball style luxury tax, with the money going to teams hurt by the bad canadian dollar and high canadian taxes
I know the crowd for Portland Winter Hawks (Canadian WHL league) has always been good, but remember WHL games are $10-$13 tickets as opposed to $50 tickets.
Seattle is interesting, but the League has to worry about taking away some of Vancouver's fan base, similar to the way Buffalo rightfully vetoed a Hamilton team way back when.
EE, Montreal came within a hair of moving/folding a year or two ago. Bottom line, if they don't put bums in chairs, then no city is safe from losing their franchise.
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