The NHL’s salary cap continues to rise. According to a report, the cap will go up $5 million, reaching $64 million in total, for the 2011-12 season.
Are NHL Salary Cap Increases Again Putting League On Road To Destruction?
In 2004-05, we lost an entire season of NHL hockey. It was excruciatingly painful, and just as fans of the NFL and NBA are experiencing this year, it’s really pretty unfair. Millionaires versus billionaires and all of that stuff.
The crux of the NHL lockout argument was really quite simple: the players wanted to keep the extremely large cut of the pie that they had held for so many years, while the owners were adamant about the fact that they needed to curtail players salaries because, quite frankly, the system wasn’t working.
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