Comments on: Duck Duck Noose! http://www.cowhideandrubber.com/duck-duck-noose It's mostly Habs talk here. Learn to like it. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:47:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Making Babes With Other Hockey Blogs [+] : Blades Of Funny http://www.cowhideandrubber.com/duck-duck-noose/comment-page-1#comment-485 Making Babes With Other Hockey Blogs [+] : Blades Of Funny Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:09:42 +0000 http://www.cowhideandrubber.com/?p=391#comment-485 [...] Cowhide and Rubber – Kyle has a great take on why the Ilya contract was declined by the league when other similar deals were allowed. He compares it to a kid trying to push the limit until, finally, the parents have had enough. That’s one of the first things I thought of as well. [...] [...] Cowhide and Rubber – Kyle has a great take on why the Ilya contract was declined by the league when other similar deals were allowed. He compares it to a kid trying to push the limit until, finally, the parents have had enough. That’s one of the first things I thought of as well. [...]

]]> By: Kyle http://www.cowhideandrubber.com/duck-duck-noose/comment-page-1#comment-479 Kyle Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:20:20 +0000 http://www.cowhideandrubber.com/?p=391#comment-479 <a href="#comment-478" rel="nofollow">@RG </a> What it is that some teams with money don't care about the cap. They'll work within it, but don't mind bending the rules. The Devils have a building to fill, and a team to build for their next generation. Brodeur is near the end and they'll need to change the way they do things. What the GMs have gone and done is spend themselves in to trouble again. Teams have spent so much money (either to the cap or to the limit of their own budget) that now one of the league's best players can't find a home AND get paid what he's perceived to be worth. I don't know how to protect the General Managers from themselves. One way would be to limit deals to no longer than 10 years (for example), and make sure that a there's a certain fixed percentage between the highest and lowest paying years in that contract. @RG
What it is that some teams with money don’t care about the cap. They’ll work within it, but don’t mind bending the rules. The Devils have a building to fill, and a team to build for their next generation. Brodeur is near the end and they’ll need to change the way they do things.

What the GMs have gone and done is spend themselves in to trouble again. Teams have spent so much money (either to the cap or to the limit of their own budget) that now one of the league’s best players can’t find a home AND get paid what he’s perceived to be worth.

I don’t know how to protect the General Managers from themselves. One way would be to limit deals to no longer than 10 years (for example), and make sure that a there’s a certain fixed percentage between the highest and lowest paying years in that contract.

]]> By: RG http://www.cowhideandrubber.com/duck-duck-noose/comment-page-1#comment-478 RG Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:06:01 +0000 http://www.cowhideandrubber.com/?p=391#comment-478 The NHL brass (Bettman et al) are supposedly one and the same with the GMs, surely we have heard this before with words like collusion and others. Why in their right minds would the Devils, with relatively minimum competition for Ilya's signing, need to do this contract to begin with is mind boggling. I read some tweets about lowering the 'average' cap hit. If this is indeed the case it is further proof that the GMs are not using the biggest win, the cap itself, in the last CBA to their advantage. The NHL brass (Bettman et al) are supposedly one and the same with the GMs, surely we have heard this before with words like collusion and others. Why in their right minds would the Devils, with relatively minimum competition for Ilya’s signing, need to do this contract to begin with is mind boggling. I read some tweets about lowering the ‘average’ cap hit. If this is indeed the case it is further proof that the GMs are not using the biggest win, the cap itself, in the last CBA to their advantage.

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