TSN/Forbes Sports Legal Analyst. Host Offside on TSN Radio in Ottawa, Edmonton and Montreal. CTV/ESPN/SiriusXM. Partner. Sports Law Prof. Habs/Expos fan.
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No-trade and no-move clauses are not the industry standard in North American sports. NHL contracts represent the outlier.
Approximate number of no-trades/no-moves:
NFL: 8
NBA: 2
MLB: 35
NHL: 245
The NHL's 50/50 revenue split includes media rights. Rogers commits $11B for Canadian NHL rights, league revenue rises, and player compensation rises with it. Broadcasters and teams then have to recovers those costs. That's where fans come in.
Teams keep jacking up prices, then wonder why fans aren’t showing up. You can’t price people out of the building and expect full arenas. There's a limit.
It’s unfair to criticize the Canadiens for failing to land a 2C. It wasn’t for lack of effort. Plenty of other teams were looking for a 2C and came up empty. Sometimes the market simply doesn’t cooperate. And the last thing the Canadiens want to do is force a deal.
The Canadiens know how to take a lead, but they just don't know how to hold a lead. And that's really the most important part of taking a lead: the holding.
Don Fehr told NHL players back in 2012 if they wanted to get rid of the salary cap, they should expect to miss at least one season.
Baseball players and owners should take note.
ICYMI - my Forbes article The Brewers, Guardians And Rays Don’t Settle The Salary Cap Debate.
forbes.com/sites/ericmacrama…
Alex Texier is turning out to be a great acquisition by the Habs. High skill, high compete, protects the puck well and has some mean to his game.
Understood (and I get the response). I guess I would say that a salary cap isn’t about punishing the Dodgers for signing stars; it’s about preventing a system where the wealthiest teams have a structural advantage in acquiring and retaining talent.
If I had a Charlie Sheen winner of the week on Offside, Devin Cooley would be it this week.
"I have to let my unconscious brain do the work because it reacts a lot quicker." 🧠
Devin Cooley chats with @BParkerTV about the psychology behind his unreal performance vs. the Canes.
Thanks. Nice ceiling comparison: David Reinbacher has the potential to become a Jaccob Slavin. Yes I know optimistic. Check back in in 300 games for that one.
A salary cap, however, would prevent the Dodgers from simply signing multiple star players, as there would not be enough cap space to accommodate them all.
Joe Kelly just dropped an anti-cap truth bomb:
Even if a salary cap meant every team could only offer Shohei Ohtani $10M, he’d still pick the Dodgers over Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, or Minnesota every single time.
Why? Because nobody’s Googling “best places to visit in America” and landing on those cities. Destination + winning culture still wins when the max money is the same for everyone.
A cap doesn’t create parity. It just makes the desirable spots even more dominant.
The Dodgers would love a salary cap.