For the non-sports fans out there, the National Hockey League recently signed a new collective bargaining agreement which includes a salary rollback and cap. Here’s an explanation, but basically the cap requires teams to spend at $21.5 million and no more than $39 million on player salaries.
18 months off from hockey, the CBA signing, new transaction rules and the cap have resulted in an unprecedented orgy of player signings and trades. Every NHL fan is wondering the same thing: how much room does my team have left under the cap? I wondered that in a Canucks newsgroup, and got a fairly decent answer.
What we really need is real-time salary tracker that shows total salary status for every team in the NHL. Appropriately promoted, this site would get a ton of traffic. Yes, I know that sports fans shouldn’t care about their team’s economic status, but I’m afraid that these days, that’s nearly impossible.
And speaking of player transactions, I was pleased to see that the Canucks just re-signed Naslund for three years at $6 million a year.
I asked the same question of a hockey-crazed pal and he pointed me to this TSN feature that lays it all out.
http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/feature.asp?fid=7006
It’s not real time, sadly, but TSN is likely to keep it fairly up-to-date.
i agree i also would like to be able to find a free agent for each team site
the real question is where do reporters find these states?
sorry i meant stats, and they say the web is so full but its so lacking