I don't know about you guys, but i'm locking out my players.

[armandtanzarian]

So lets rush to sign these long term deals under the current CBA before the deadline on the 15th. Owners look stupid. I want to give you less money but i also want to give you a nice long term deal to keep you on our team because you are a young player with high potential. Very interested to see how this all pans out.

[Nick]

Guys.

If every single team spent to the cap, then they's be at the 57(players)/43(owners) split. However there is actually a ton of space left around the league. This left over space the owners don't keep - it's divided up to all the players based on their average cap hit of their current contract. So Sid made 8.7 in contract + 900k in escrow - Kessler 4M and 400k in escrow, Ben lovejoy .525M and 60k in escrow.

So spending to the cap is an obvious move for the high-income team - they have to put money in for the cap they don't spent, and the money for the cap te other teams don't spent.

I believe the current offers being tossed around all change that breakdown.

There are also ways of decreasing players share without rolling back the salary - actually I think that's what the owners just proposed. The cap wouldn't go up to 70M, it would stay at what it was last year (68.4) assuming that league revenue increased at least 5.4% to cover the first year drop on players share or some form of growth hold over for the 6 year term.

Anyways. There are a ton of missing details and conflicting rumors.

[bills09]

For all the negativity towards this entire process and Fehr in genral the biggest source of optimism is that both sides have been consistantly talking and working towards solving this. There was no where near this level of communication under Bob Goodenow....