Kevin Biestra Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 8 hours ago, Coconuts said: Burke's a pretty unique person as far as people around the league go, he's performed all sorts of roles and held various positions over his career. He likely has insight someone who's just been a GM or president wouldn't have. I don't agree with everything he says, but I respect his insight. Yep, the guy is a hockey man, no doubt about it. They called Pat Quinn "Three Hat Pat" when he was president, coach and GM, but Burke has worn about as many "hats" in the builder category as there are to wear. He's not beyond the realm of possibilities as a Hall of Famer one day. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coconuts Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 35 minutes ago, Kevin Biestra said: Yep, the guy is a hockey man, no doubt about it. They called Pat Quinn "Three Hat Pat" when he was president, coach and GM, but Burke has worn about as many "hats" in the builder category as there are to wear. He's not beyond the realm of possibilities as a Hall of Famer one day. I wouldn't be surprised, there are only so many people to nominate as builders. He's definitely done a lot. GM, director of hockey operations, GM of four teams, league disciplinarian, executive vice president and director of hockey operations for the NHL front office, president as well as GM for the Leafs, president of hockey operations for the Flames, and now hockey analyst. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Colt 45s Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 How much should mid-pack players be paid? The financial situation in the league is going to change with the negotiation of a new television contract. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRealistOptimist Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 On 4/18/2020 at 1:22 PM, Crabcakes said: Just listened to the interview, the rollback sounds like pro-rating salaries based on the number of games actually played. This makes a lot of sense to me because players will be paid on a per game basis which is about as fair as you can get. The salary cap for next season then, say they play 54 games.....the cap would be 54 / 82 X $85M = $56M but everybody's salary is reduced accordingly as well so it's all relative. The way I understood his comments is that if the salary cap was $81.5 million this year, next year the cap could be up to 40% lower, which would mean a $48.9 million cap. This would result in all of the players salaries being rolled back 40% as well. Therefore the Canucks would still be in the same cap situation as they are right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Provost Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 1 hour ago, TheRealistOptimist said: The way I understood his comments is that if the salary cap was $81.5 million this year, next year the cap could be up to 40% lower, which would mean a $48.9 million cap. This would result in all of the players salaries being rolled back 40% as well. Therefore the Canucks would still be in the same cap situation as they are right now. Maybe they would find ways to screw us like having the cap recapture and precious buyouts not reduce accordingly. On the other hand, is Eriksson more likely to retire if he is only in line for 60% of his remaining $8 million... or 60% of the $5 million owed after this year’s signing bonus? Boy if he was only due $3 million for two years of work and you told him he is going to have to raise the buses in the minors for all that... who could see him continuing to play? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Biestra Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 (edited) 4 hours ago, Provost said: Maybe they would find ways to screw us like having the cap recapture and precious buyouts not reduce accordingly. On the other hand, is Eriksson more likely to retire if he is only in line for 60% of his remaining $8 million... or 60% of the $5 million owed after this year’s signing bonus? Boy if he was only due $3 million for two years of work and you told him he is going to have to raise the buses in the minors for all that... who could see him continuing to play? Well, I don't know if he'll ever make that kind of money again doing anything else for the rest of his life. You might be surprised. A lot of great players closed out their careers in the minors for multiple years without complaint. Rob Brown, Mike Keane, etc. Al Secord and Rod Langway came back just to play in the minors. I don't really know how Loui feels about such things. Edited April 20, 2020 by Kevin Biestra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Provost Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 3 hours ago, Kevin Biestra said: Well, I don't know if he'll ever make that kind of money again doing anything else for the rest of his life. You might be surprised. A lot of great players closed out their careers in the minors for multiple years without complaint. Rob Brown, Mike Keane, etc. Al Secord and Rod Langway came back just to play in the minors. I don't really know how Loui feels about such things. Those aren’t comparables and a huge reach just to find names of some guys who did that. Rob Brown had a career earnings of $2.8 million, Keane chose to sign with his hometown team in Manitoba. Eriksson will have career earnings of around $60 million. He owns restaurants back in Sweden. He has no connection to here or Utica, his young family moved back to Dallas already. It isn’t impossible that he would report to the minors, but I wouldn’t put the chance of that very high. It is inexcusable for our brass to not have put that pressure on him to test his resolve on it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davathor Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 11 hours ago, Kevin Biestra said: Well, I don't know if he'll ever make that kind of money again doing anything else for the rest of his life. You might be surprised. A lot of great players closed out their careers in the minors for multiple years without complaint. Rob Brown, Mike Keane, etc. Al Secord and Rod Langway came back just to play in the minors. I don't really know how Loui feels about such things. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Biestra Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 2 minutes ago, Davathor said: He might not even know he got sent to the minors. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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