Latest episode<\/a><\/p>\nWhen asked if teams could submit a secondary roster to account for a last-minute swap of a player returning from injury for another player previously listed, Daly said, \u201cThat is a detail that there will obviously be an answer to, but there isn\u2019t one yet.\u201d<\/p>\n
With the playoffs only beginning in April, there\u2019s plenty of time to sort it out.<\/p>\n
The NHL doesn\u2019t need more time to put the new rules regarding LTIR and salary cap retention into place.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Neither Daly nor Bettman would confirm every single proviso of the new CBA immediately taking effect at the start of this upcoming season. Bettman just said a memorandum from the league would inevitably detail the changes.<\/p>\n
As for one of the ones we know about for sure, neither Davidson nor Cheveldayoff felt the changes to salary retention rules would limit trade activity.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s more money in the system, so maybe there\u2019s less of a need to go down the road of double retention,\u201d said Davidson.<\/p>\n
Cheveldayoff said, \u201cI don\u2019t think it will make a big difference. I never utilized it, so it\u2019s not something that\u2019s being taken away from me.\u201d<\/p>\n
What teams had regularly used under the old LTIR rules was the ability to replace injured players with players making equal salary during the regular season, before reactivating their injured player for the playoffs, when there was no salary cap.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But that loophole is now closed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s fair,\u201d said Philadelphia Flyers GM Daniel Briere on Tuesday, ahead of a less formal get-together between all attendees of this meeting. \u201cI didn\u2019t have an issue with it before \u2014 the rules were in place, and everyone played by them. Now we\u2019ll have new rules to play by.\u201d<\/p>\n
Multiple other GMs we polled at meetings held in Florida last March expressed that they were in favour of a playoff salary cap and felt it was better for the competitive balance and integrity of the league.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Current NHL officials Kelly Sutherland and Wes McCauley had a back-and-forth with the league\u2019s coaches\u2026 partly to discuss back-and-forths at team benches between officials and coaches during games.<\/p>\n
As Campbell said, \u201cIt was important to (the coaches), and it\u2019s important to us, too, when they cross the line we don\u2019t want them to cross.\u201d<\/p>\n
Coaches also gave their feedback to the officials and the league on issues like embellishment and challenges.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust to add to that, when we went around the room and had each coach give some input on officiating,\u201d said Bettman, “I think the consensus in the room, everything that was being talked about was tweaks, and I think overall, more than overall, virtually unanimously, everybody feels officiating is in a really good place\u2026 You try to get to perfection, and that\u2019s an effort we\u2019ll have. But it\u2019s a game of human elements\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cThe sense in the room was the officiating is really good, and it\u2019s really unfair to the world\u2019s best officials in the toughest game to officiate when they get criticized on occasion, and so I think that was a good session that gave everybody the opportunity to be heard.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 The Canadian Hockey League and United States Hockey League (junior leagues in both Canada and the U.S.) gave presentations at the meetings to, as Bettman put it, \u201cemphasize their importance to the game.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Daly said both leagues \u201cwanted to express their views with respect to the current landscape,\u201d and that \u201cthe CHL is concerned with what we negotiated with the Players\u2019 Association with regards to the 19-year-old players, so a lot of their discussions focused on that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The new CBA has a proviso to allow one 19-year-old player per team to play for their American Hockey League affiliate, but that still needs to be ironed out with the CHL once the agreement between their league and the NHL can be reopened in June of 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT \u2014 It\u2019s a new salary cap world, and NHL general managers will learn how to live in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-117704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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