I actually quite like the salary cap in the NHL, and I think having a hard cap is much better than the soft caps we see in the MLB or the NBA. The hard cap allows much more parity and doesn’t give any team an advantage over another.

We’ve seen it in the MLB and the NBA how the same handful of teams are always the teams that are at the top, they’re always competing and it’s usually the teams that have the most money and can afford to over spend and pay penalties to reap the rewards. I think this goes against the point of having a cap. I do think overall it’s still better than no cap at all, but it still allows the rich teams to spend a ton of money and benefit from having deep pockets. Small market teams would never be able to keep up and it would ruin it.

I take soccer for example. The rich teams are always buying players and spending, and the smaller teams’ sole objectives are player development and then sell them off for a profit. It makes it a little boring when it’s always the same teams, and I wouldn’t want to have that happen to the NHL.