They are apparently starved enough for goals, that they're changing the goalie equipment again, yet we go through this asinine offside/goalie interference review process to take goals off the board. Good times.
Anyways the GM meetings are ending today. Some other items that have come up.
- They are going to install camera's along the blue line in all 16 playoff rinks to help with the offside reviews. I can only laugh that the NHL can pull this off but the $9 billion NFL can't find the money for BB's "put camera's on the goal line crusade. Guess the NHL had a successful bake sale.
- Cap is probably staying the same next year. It could rise up to $74 million of the PA triggers the escalator, but safe to assume it is staying the same.
- The most interesting thing that they talked about is the potential expansion draft. The league will apparently make the final decision on expansion before June. The outline for a potential expansion draft is- Teams can protect 11 players (3D, 7F, 1G). Teams can only lose a max of 1 player, if they expand by 1 team, which seems to be the likely outcome. 2 players if there are 2 expansion teams. Prospects and 1st and 2nd year pro's are exempt. There may be some sort of salary component where you have to leave X amount of salary available (good idea in theory, won't work in real life). No word on how NMC's will work, that'll surely be a battle between the league and union for down the road.
Hypothetically, for the B's they could protect:
F: Bergeron, Marchand, Krejci, Spooner, Pastrnak, Beleskey and then I guess 1 of Connolly/Hayes if Connolly is still here.
D: Chara, Krug, C. Miller
G: Rask
Anyways the GM meetings are ending today. Some other items that have come up.
- They are going to install camera's along the blue line in all 16 playoff rinks to help with the offside reviews. I can only laugh that the NHL can pull this off but the $9 billion NFL can't find the money for BB's "put camera's on the goal line crusade. Guess the NHL had a successful bake sale.
- Cap is probably staying the same next year. It could rise up to $74 million of the PA triggers the escalator, but safe to assume it is staying the same.
- The most interesting thing that they talked about is the potential expansion draft. The league will apparently make the final decision on expansion before June. The outline for a potential expansion draft is- Teams can protect 11 players (3D, 7F, 1G). Teams can only lose a max of 1 player, if they expand by 1 team, which seems to be the likely outcome. 2 players if there are 2 expansion teams. Prospects and 1st and 2nd year pro's are exempt. There may be some sort of salary component where you have to leave X amount of salary available (good idea in theory, won't work in real life). No word on how NMC's will work, that'll surely be a battle between the league and union for down the road.
Hypothetically, for the B's they could protect:
F: Bergeron, Marchand, Krejci, Spooner, Pastrnak, Beleskey and then I guess 1 of Connolly/Hayes if Connolly is still here.
D: Chara, Krug, C. Miller
G: Rask