Hockey task:

Salary cap belongs to the NHL. It is the best thing in the world. Why? It keeps NHL relevant and interesting. There are more winner candidates than in any other major sports in the North America because salary cap forces teams to lose some good players sometimes and worse teams can pick those players. Without salary cap the play field would be narrower and more boring. Nobody wants to see it. Salary cap also gives media and fans something to speculate. Without salary cap same teams would be dominate in every season. European soccer is great example about that. Real and Barca rule in Spain. In the UK there are six big clubs. Money and paid salaries usually correlate with success. In the NHL every teams spends maximum of 82M for players and that way competition is in balance. Everyone can beat everyone. It is cool in the NHL. So yeah, don't even plan to remove cap of salaries or NHL loses many interest viewers after that.