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  1. The NHL and NHLPA have just agreed on a CBA extension that will be valid at least through 2025/26. The cap will increase based on a formula. The players owe a lot of money to the owners. They are capping escrow at 20% for next season and have agreed on a declining scale. They are still looking to achieve the 50-50 revenue split over time - players are only spreading their losses and still have to pay them back. By their projections it could well take beyond 6 years before players have paid back their full share of the losses. The cap is not going to increase by much till then. The 2019/20 projection pre-pandemic was 4.8 billion. Next season is not even expected to reach 3.3 billion. The cap will stay mostly flat as long as revenue is below 4.8 billion. There are some marginal adjustments built in but there's not going to be a massive leap in the cap for a while.
  2. Thomas Drance says that there's a widespread sense that top players will continue to be paid and the players that are going to be squeezed are the mid-level veterans - the late 20s players in the 2-3.5M range. He thinks it's problematic for the Canucks as they have several players that fall in that category which makes finding trade partners particularly challenging. Teams are not looking to add a Roussel at 3M or Sutter at 4.4M. MacIntyre doesn't even think the Canucks will be able to move Benn at 2M.
  3. Ottawa was in a tear down to the ground type of rebuild. They now have a lot of prospects and draft picks and are looking to make their way back up to contention. Melnyk expects them to be competitive next season. It's not profitable to not ice a competitive lineup.
  4. Wasn't even Brackett that found Boeser: Gaudette and Brock Boeser are again examples of scouting being a team effort. The USHL was in Brackett’s wheelhouse, but there were a lot of people involved in identifying and scouting both players. Elliotte Friedman recently identified scout Ted Hampson as pushing hard for Boeser. “I certainly didn’t work alone on them,” said Brackett. “The US staff identified them early and everyone from crossover scouts to management had opinions on them too.”
  5. The CBA memorandum of understanding can be downloaded here: https://media.nhl.com/site/asset/public/ext/NHLPA_NHL_MOU.pdf
  6. The Toffoli trade was at the TDL when the cap was projected to increase to at least 84M. Even then LA didn't want to take Baertschi's extra year despite Vancouver giving up Madden who was considered by Button, Wheeler and Pronman as the Canucks' 3rd best prospect on their respective lists. The compliance buyout ship has sailed. Players just voted on the CBA memorandum of understanding - results expected tonight. Compliance buyouts would increase the amounts they owe back to the league so doubt they would have agreed to them.
  7. Canucks tried to trade Baertschi as part of the Toffoli trade instead of upcoming UFA Schaller. Teams know that the Canucks are tight cap wise especially with the bonus overage and Pettersson / Hughes still on their ELCs next season. It's going to cost assets to move those unwanted contracts.
  8. Except every media has reported that the Wild are looking for a C1 in return for Dumba. They already have plenty of wingers including in the system. The Wild already made the mistake of bringing in a sniper when they had no one to set him up - it ended up in a buyout. In Vancouver Boeser gets to play with Pettersson.
  9. They aren't looking to trade Meier. They are looking to compete. https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/01/31/sharks-gm-doug-wilson-talks-expectations-ek65-martin-jones-and-trade-deadline/ Still, Wilson believes he has the framework of a contending team, led by Couture, Hertl, wingers Evander Kane and Timo Meier and defensemen Erik Karlsson, Brent Burns and Marc-Edouard Vlasic. “To win in this league, I think you have to have a bit deeper of a core. I don’t think you can be carried by just one or two players.” Wilson said. “When you look at the positions those guys play, center, defense or power wingers, it allows you to bring in people around them. I think how we’ve dedicated our dollars is to the proper positions. We’ll have some opportunities to grow this team. “But I don’t think I look at it as a big an issue as (an outsider) would.” “People are entitled to their comments, but they don’t have the luxury of being within this group,” Wilson said. “When you don’t have the results, people may get frustrated.”
  10. He didn't have power of decision - he was just a scout providing input but Delorme/Crawford made the final picks. He might have argued hard for players that were ultimately ignored by management. Benning clearly saw something in him to promote him.
  11. Brackett was head scout and vice president of player personnel for the Indiana Ice in the USHL. He joined the Canucks before Weisbrod and was responsible for scouting the north-east and the USHL.
  12. Meier is more versatile than Boeser and it doesn't sound like the Sharks have changed their mind on him. Don't see them interested in moving him. Wilson lists him among their core players. Wilson implied that they could possibly move the 1st round pick they got in the Goodrow trade. Doesn't sound like they care much for futures at this stage - they want to compete now and not wait for a pick to develop. Demko and a 1st does nothing for their window and Eriksson limits it further.
  13. Teams can't send LTIR players to the minors. Either he is fit to play or he isn't. If he wanted to go on LTIR it's because he was no longer able to play. The contract was also likely insured. Panthers would have had to pay only 20% of their share. Canucks were retaining 15% of the contract.
  14. A lot of the scouts who had contracts expiring on 30 June saw their contracts extended to the end of this hockey season. The Canucks decided to part ways.
  15. Makes sense after Guerin fired their co-director of amateur scouting Darren Yopyk last May. He was sharing the position with PJ Fenton, the son of former Wild GM Paul Fenton who was probably too inexperienced to earn the position. Guerin had AGM Tom Kurvers running the draft. They had to fill the position.
  16. Training camp starts next Monday and they are expected to travel to the bubble of phase 4 on the 26th. This is the protocol for phase 3: https://nhl.bamcontent.com/images/assets/binary/317329636/binary-file/file.pdf Players have to practice strict self-distancing and wear masks outside of the facilities too. They are asked to stay at home as much as possible the final week before travelling to the bubble and restrict their social circle to those who live in the same household.
  17. There is no more cap counting past the regular season. Teams can bring 31 players into the bubble without any cap consideration. This has nothing to do with the recapture penalty though.
  18. Ottawa has players on LTIR. Canucks did too with Dorsett - which led to a bonus overage of over 800K. Bowman was calling Hinostroza an untouchable a few months before trading him to get rid of Hossa's LTIR contract. Florida gave up a 2nd round pick to NJD to move Marc Savard's LTIR contract. Teams prefer to avoid LTIR as it makes it challenging to build an active roster up to the cap and creates bonus overages.
  19. Detroit had 3 recapture contracts in Franzen, Kronwall and Zetterberg. Franzen is on LTIR with severe concussion repercussions and Zetterberg with back issues. Kronwall played the full length of his contract. These were the front loaded recapture contracts: Recapture penalty - Mike Richards (LAK), Luongo (VAN/FLA) Compliance buyouts - Ehrhoff (BUF), Brad Richards (NYR) Completed their contracts - Chara (BOS), Kronwall (DET), Myers (BUF/WPG) LTIR - Franzen (DET), Hossa (CHI), Ohlund (TBL), Savard (BOS), Zetterberg (DET) Still active: Carter (LAK), Crosby (PIT), Keith (CHI), Parise (MIN), Quick (LAK), Suter (MIN), Weber (MTL/NSH)
  20. Teams look to get rid of LTIR contracts. It's a real nuisance to deal with. It limits a teams ability to construct an active roster up to the cap. It creates bonus overages and limits who can be recalled. With only Horton on LTIR the Leafs' active roster would have been at most 78M. They had to add Clarkson to be able to build a roster closer to 81.5M like any other team. Any cap that exceeds 81.5M is LTIR money. The active roster is still under 81.5M like a regular team. It would have been far easier for them to be able to move the Horton LTIR contract - but it wasn't insured so they couldn't find a taker. The recapture penalties are not going to disappear. Parise has every intention to play the full length of his contract provided his health allows him to.
  21. LTIR is a limitation. Just look at the Canucks that used LTIR and now have a bonus overage of some 1.7M that's going to count against their cap next season. It doesn't create cap space - it actually makes it harder for teams to build an active roster up to the salary cap. Wild's owner has been arguing with the league for years to drop the penalty - it's not going to happen. Parise expects to play his full contract.
  22. Gillis last year admitted that they expected Luongo to finish on LTIR given the length of the contract. Canucks and Mr Aquilini probably never realised that the penalty could affect them as they saw him ending his career on LTIR. By trading him they lost the ability to influence that decision and it was more beneficial for Florida that he retires.
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