2024-2025 NHL Thread

[MC74]

The league has reportedly come up with their own solution to the LTIR abuse. They're suggesting a rule where each team's 20-man lineup must be captain compliant in each playoff game, meaning you can exceed the cap on your roster so long as they don't all play at once.

Teams will find a loophole around that too.

 

[canadaguy]

The league has reportedly come up with their own solution to the LTIR abuse. They're suggesting a rule where each team's 20-man lineup must be captain compliant in each playoff game, meaning you can exceed the cap on your roster so long as they don't all play at once.

Teams will find a loophole around that too.

It's better than what we have now.

Like obviously a team needs flexibility in the cap if a highly paid player is legitimately injured, but just pretending the cap doesn't exist in the playoffs is silly.

 

[MC74]

It's better than what we have now.

Like obviously a team needs flexibility in the cap if a highly paid player is legitimately injured, but just pretending the cap doesn't exist in the playoffs is silly.

I'd just keep the cap throughout. Simple solution right there.

 

[Jon]

Mark my words, that's exactly what will happen when the success dries up. You'll see those attendance numbers go down. People are on the wagon now because they're winning. Those are fair weather fans, not true die-hards.

There are not many people in Florida sporting Panther garb. Maybe it's because I'm in the Tampa area, but Panthers gear I see are old school powder blue ones. Fans that have been there for a while through the bad. No one cares about this team and it's Bettman's bullshit that have made them a success. Not talent.

 

[Jon]

Cap shenanigans is a problem. At no point in the season, or postseason, should being over cap be ok. If someone is on IR and their cap is waived, they should be forced to be cap compliant when the player isn't on IR. Period. None of this crap that you can IR players till post season starts then you're over cap by millions.

Make it so you're only able to be 10% over the cap for injury related reasons at any time. You SHOULD struggle when good players are out instead of allowing teams to go out and get other superstars then throw a super team out in the playoffs. It's called development.

 

[MC74]

There are not many people in Florida sporting Panther garb. Maybe it's because I'm in the Tampa area, but Panthers gear I see are old school powder blue ones. Fans that have been there for a while through the bad. No one cares about this team and it's Bettman's bullshit that have made them a success. Not talent.

I'd argue Zito's work as GM played a huge role in constructing that team. He deserves credit for turning a team that has largely been a joke throughout its history into a bonafide cup team. They have a formula that's brought them great success as a hockey team, but as a market, we all know Florida will never have or develop a cult-like following that other known hockey hotbeds have.