NHL LOCKOUT Who do you support?

**meatwad** · September 24th, 2004, 08:46 AM

Originally Posted by imaeditedbysowulo

The problem seems to be that players get a big fat contract and then their production drops off sharply. In an ideal world all money earned would be directly tied to whether your team wins or not, but that will never happen.

The players are 100% against a salary cap, that's what this thing is all about. I would suggest that they keep the same system as far as not having a cap, but make it like the NFL where a team can cut a player at any time and not be responsible for the remainder of their contract.

Let them go thru waivers and if another team wants to pay the contract then they can claim the player, but if they make it all the way thru waivers they become a free agent with no contract.

That way there is no salary cap, but if a team needs to reduce the payroll they have a way to do it. Everybody wins, hockey season starts on time.

American football truly is a perfect sport.