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• NHL 22 SUCKS PROFESSIONAL

Of course, teams that win will draw more fans, this is a given. They created fans and those fans have stayed.

NHL 22 SUCKS PROFESSIONAL

Whether it is due to their improbable first season, proper marketing, or the lack of other professional sports franchises in Las Vegas, the Golden Knights have been embraced by the city, are loved, and sold to 105.5% capacity. This is what separates clubs like the Vegas Golden Knights from other teams. I have no problem with the NHL attempting to expand to places where hockey would not be traditionally played, though these franchises need to have staying power. The fact that the salary cap era rules even out the amount of total spending ability per team results in an unequal balance that places unpopular teams like the Carolina Hurricanes and Arizona Coyotes equal with the Toronto Maple Leafs and Philadelphia Flyers. Now, these numbers are an uptick in attendance total for the Hurricanes franchise, though the fact of the matter is that due to the salary cap, teams that underperform are rewarded. Even last season, when they were playing well, they only drew 587,222 fans (4th lowest total) and had an average turnout of 14,322 of a total 18,680+ seat capacity of their arena. For the past six seasons, the Carolina Hurricanes have been at the bottom of the NHL attendance charts. What I mean by unpopular is that the existence of the salary cap allows teams which are unsuccessful at drawing crowds to continue to exist.

Despite our personal feelings toward the Chicago Blackhawks, the team draws healthy gate receipts and had the most fans in total attend games last season (855,972 total attendance at home games). In this instance, I am not referring to unpopularity as unlikable. Let’s break that down: It allows unpopular teams to thrive In no particular order of importance, the salary cap allows unpopular teams to thrive, obstructs teams from constructing an optimized roster, creates unfair trade markets, and prioritizes undervaluing players.

However, with the NHL, there are a number of reasons why the salary cap is fatally flawed. This is to be expected as the NBA and NFL make more money than the NHL, quite significantly so. Other sports have struggled with the concepts of implementing revenue-sharing methods - baseball instituted a luxury tax and both the NFL and NBA have salary caps, albeit they function differently from the NHL’s version and they are set at a much larger figure. It’s not simply a temporary assistance scheme for franchises going through a rough patch, it’s a recognition that some markets are much, much bigger than the rest, but the league wishes to restrict the payroll range to some extent.ĭespite the positive intentions, in its current state, the salary cap exists as a concrete obstruction to the prosperity of the sport. This revenue sharing distributes income from the higher income generating teams to the lower income generating teams who wouldn’t be able to spend to the cap without this system. The cap is meant to prevent teams in larger markets with larger budgets from taking advantage of teams in smaller markets and is enabled by league wide revenue sharing. This percentage currently stands at 57% of league revenue. From that point onward, the cap has been calculated as a fixed percentage of total league revenue from the previous season. It was first implemented for the 2004-05 season with the introduction of a new collective bargaining agreement after the lockout - the cap was set to $39 million. The salary cap is a set limit on the amount to which a club can pay its players. But I have come to the realization that abolishing or altering the salary cap would allow for a number of key changes which would, in my opinion, strengthen both the NHL and the game of ice hockey. The NHL has instituted the salary cap for the majority of my hockey fandom, therefore I never thought of it as anything out of the ordinary. While the Flyers may end up being okay under the current set of rules, this got me thinking about the salary cap as a concept. Last week, I wrote an article detailing the Flyers’ salary cap situation and how the outlook may not be imminently dire.

They hit 100% attendance on average and the capacity used was for concerts which is different from hockey games. Update: I replaced the Winnipeg Jets example with the Carolina Hurricanes because of a miscalculation regarding their arena capacity.