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NHL Lock-out officially in effect. strange to see so many NHL GM handing out new longterm deals for big money yet their owners are crying poor yet again.
Such a bummer that the season looks like it'll be delayed if not canceled. Greedy owner bastards!
Contracts should be put on ice. As for a rollback. It would force teams to be creative but after reading some of the posts this doesn't seem like the league to do that.
planning ahead here as we near what should be the Oct.11'12 start date for the 2012-13 NHL season but with no new CBA in sight...we need to address several items:1) 2012-13 Contracts - in the real NHL, all 2012-13 contracts remain valid in the event of a lockout/strike/cancellation. we'll need to get majority agreement but i propose all contracts get frozen in the event of a complete cancellation to the 2012-13 season (meaning contracts expiring in 2012-13 will be carried over to expire in 2013-14)... 1 key reason being extension start dates, values, calculation would be impacted if we don't freeze contracts.
2) FNHL Start Date - this is a given but i'll state it anyway, if the NHL season is delayed, all our FNHL dates are similarly pushed back or delayed until the real NHL sesaon begins (this includes the transaction freeze period plus the effective date for the new buy outs for retiring, non-NHL players).
3) Salary Cap Roll-back? - in the current CBA negotiations, there's serious talk of reducing the salary cap per team and rolling back to approx. $58m ... in the real NHL, teams and mgmt have plenty of means, tools to rollback salary including burying players in the minors + calling up a bunch of entry level contracts, shipping players overseas, etc. Since FNHL doesn't use waivers (to move players back n forth betw MLR and MilR) - cap rollback will be much more difficult to implement immediately given how teams have already spent during the offseason FA period or planned their budgets at the end of the 2011-12 seaosn... not to mention all the manual admin work to adjust team salaries, process player movement, etc.If the 2012-13 NHL salary cap is rolled back, I proposed a FNHL vote to get buy-in on maintaining 2012-13 cap at $70.3m with a necessary FNHL cap rollback to take effect for the 2013-14 FNHL season. reason: we're not all full-time profsl'ers, nor are we paid full-time GMs who are expected to navigate new CBA cap requirements, so let's not force ourselves into urgent changes we don't have to make. fantasy play is meant to be fun, not stressful. comments, opinions, rants... pl. post 'em!