2015-2016 NHL Thread

[GhostofPotvin29]

https://twitter.com/renlavoietva/status/686955461480955905

@renlavoietva

Canadian dollar under 70 cents. HRR and cap projections were made with a dollar at 80 cents. Won't happen. #nhl #escrow

 

[Kin]

Quenneville gets three year extension:

http://espn.go.com/nhl/story/_/id/14554974/chicago-blackhawks-give-three-year-extension-coach-joel-quenneville-2019-20-season

Wonder how often Mike Babcock's name/salary came up in negotiations.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Quenneville gets three year extension:

http://espn.go.com/nhl/story/_/id/14554974/chicago-blackhawks-give-three-year-extension-coach-joel-quenneville-2019-20-season

Wonder how often Mike Babcock's name/salary came up in negotiations.

Kypreos is saying that it's in the ballpark of $6mil per. Think all coaches should be getting Babcock gift baskets after they sign new deals now.

 

[bustaheims]

@renlavoietva

Canadian dollar under 70 cents. HRR and cap projections were made with a dollar at 80 cents. Won't happen. #nhl #escrow

While the dollar could rebound, I haven't seen any forecasts that show that as likely.

 

[Frank E]

@renlavoietva

Canadian dollar under 70 cents. HRR and cap projections were made with a dollar at 80 cents. Won't happen. #nhl #escrow

While the dollar could rebound, I haven't seen any forecasts that show that as likely.

Very unlikely in 2016.

 

[Kin]

Hold on. Gary Bettman himself said that the Canadian clubs didn't provide a particularly disproportionate % of the league's revenues.  Was he...fibbing?

 

[Tigger]

This article from Ryan Whitney in The Players' Tribune about his life in the KHL is very funny and well worth the read:  Tales From Abroad: Russia

Thanks for posting.

 

[L K]

@renlavoietva

Canadian dollar under 70 cents. HRR and cap projections were made with a dollar at 80 cents. Won't happen. #nhl #escrow

While the dollar could rebound, I haven't seen any forecasts that show that as likely.

Very unlikely in 2016.

An awful lot of 65 cent dollar talk.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

@renlavoietva

Canadian dollar under 70 cents. HRR and cap projections were made with a dollar at 80 cents. Won't happen. #nhl #escrow

While the dollar could rebound, I haven't seen any forecasts that show that as likely.

Very unlikely in 2016.

An awful lot of 65 cent dollar talk.

http://www.theprovince.com/business/money/loonie+unprecedented+plunge+cents+forecaster+warns/11647461/story.html

That says it could be 59 by the end of this year.

 

[L K]

Everything I hear about Nenshi usually makes me like him.

?I know that Calgarians require very wealthy people from New York to come and tell us what we need to do in our community because they understand vibrancy better than we do,? he said. ?Perhaps in other cities that he has come to, the city councils have just written cheques based on back-of-a-napkin proposals without any consultation to the public or without any analysis. That?s not how we operate here.?

?This project was announced, frankly, without all of the homework being done,?  he said at the time. ?It?s not even half-baked. It?s not even in the oven yet. This is a matter of stirring the batter and putting it in the oven.?

Common sense from a Mayor when a professional sports league comes in demanding money for toys.

 

[Kin]

Common sense from a Mayor when a professional sports league comes in demanding money for toys.

I agree, it sounds good. But it's always easy to talk tough at the beginning of the process.

 

[Captain Canuck]

Someone has to have the oldest building in the league. No doubt Bettman will try to play the fact Edmonton is getting a new rink against the people of Calgary and rub it in their faces a bit.

I still don't see a cause for panic looking at the age of the buildings currently being replaced around the league:
Islanders - 1972
Oilers - 1974
Red Wings - 1979
Flames - 1983

Seems to me the people of Calgary have a good part of a decade to decide what is in their best interests...not be pressured by an idiot commissioner.

 

[AvroArrow]

Kopitar closing in on an 8 year, 10M per deal.  TSN

 

[Kin]

Someone has to have the oldest building in the league. No doubt Bettman will try to play the fact Edmonton is getting a new rink against the people of Calgary and rub it in their faces a bit.

I still don't see a cause for panic looking at the age of the buildings currently being replaced around the league:
Islanders - 1972
Oilers - 1974
Red Wings - 1979
Flames - 1983

Seems to me the people of Calgary have a good part of a decade to decide what is in their best interests...not be pressured by an idiot commissioner.

None of this will be coming from Bettman. Bettman is just acting on behalf of Calgary ownership so if there's pressure to get it done quickly, it's coming from them and if they want a new building...they want a new building. "Detroit's arena is 4 years older than yours" probably won't be a very persuasive argument to get them to wait four years.

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

Everything I hear about Nenshi usually makes me like him.

?I know that Calgarians require very wealthy people from New York to come and tell us what we need to do in our community because they understand vibrancy better than we do,? he said. ?Perhaps in other cities that he has come to, the city councils have just written cheques based on back-of-a-napkin proposals without any consultation to the public or without any analysis. That?s not how we operate here.?

?This project was announced, frankly, without all of the homework being done,?  he said at the time. ?It?s not even half-baked. It?s not even in the oven yet. This is a matter of stirring the batter and putting it in the oven.?

Common sense from a Mayor when a professional sports league comes in demanding money for toys.

I enjoyed this from a National Post article on it:

CalgaryNEXT, Bettman said with a perfectly straight face in one television interview on Monday, ?is about quality of life.? Yes, don?t think about it in terms of subsidizing the operations of a private, for-profit enterprise owned by several wealthy individuals, just remember that you are buying your own happiness. Don?t you want to be happy, Calgary?

Elsewhere, the commissioner dismissed the idea of building an arena without public funding as though it was some kind of magical fairy tale. ?If your attitude is, ?This all has to be private (funding)?, then it never gets done because it?s not an investment that?s cost-justified,? Bettman said, as reported in The Calgary Sun.

Gary Bettman?s push for public funds for Calgary Flames arena ? for benefit of wealthy owners ? displays next-level gumption

 

[rdowdall]

?This all has to be private (funding)?, then it never gets done because it?s not an investment that?s cost-justified,? Bettman said, as reported in The Calgary Sun.

Wow.

 

[Kin]

?This all has to be private (funding)?, then it never gets done because it?s not an investment that?s cost-justified,? Bettman said, as reported in The Calgary Sun.

Wow.

It's honest at least.

 

[LuncheonMeat]

@renlavoietva

Canadian dollar under 70 cents. HRR and cap projections were made with a dollar at 80 cents. Won't happen. #nhl #escrow

While the dollar could rebound, I haven't seen any forecasts that show that as likely.

Very unlikely in 2016.

An awful lot of 65 cent dollar talk.

http://www.theprovince.com/business/money/loonie+unprecedented+plunge+cents+forecaster+warns/11647461/story.html

That says it could be 59 by the end of this year.

I wonder what that does to the Leafs/Stamkos contract negotiations this fall. All joking aside, this has got to throw a bag of wrenches into the cap, contract negotiations, and into the war rooms of those teams that signed players to long-term contracts expecting a bump in the cap. Not to mention players' hope of getting some escrow money back this year.

 

[bustaheims]

Kopitar closing in on an 8 year, 10M per deal.  TSN

Big money, but Kopitar is what everyone talks about Toews being.

 

[L K]

Ryan Johansen with 6 points in 4 games with Nashville.  I guess he wasn't too fat to play hockey.