On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of NHL
What is the most prominent aspect of NHL?
Although the NHL spot fares, but for the majority of Chinese audiences, from the TV to see the game will not be affected. On the contrary, NHL relatively closer to the competition to make the game more impressive, especially in the playoffs this year, even as Barkley and Van Gundy such well-known commentators are also tired of the NBA one-sided, many times in the broadcast for basketball Fans Amway hockey, showing the charm of NHL is no trivial matter. And let the strength of each team is relatively close to the biggest reason is the salary cap.
In the four major professional sports leagues in North America, NHL is the only one with a hard salary cap, the average annual salary of each team can not be higher than the salary cap, more than the salary cap will not participate in the competition, and the salary cap NHL 17 Coins number is based on The previous year the league's income to develop, as far as possible to ensure that there will not be like the NBA holding the thigh situation. In addition, the league also banned the team for the players to open long and in the last few years the salary significantly reduced the contract to prevent some teams to use this contract to pull the average salary of players. And in order to prevent some teams deliberately hire cheap players, to malicious profits, the Union also set up a wage at the end of the team did not reach the same salary can not participate in the game.
And compared to several other league, NBA only soft salary cap + luxury tax, MLB no salary cap, only luxury tax, and NFL from 1994 to implement the salary cap. NHL Union relatively more reasonable salary cap system, are in 2004-05 after the infamous big shut down was born, that season is the history of the North American professional sports league only once the entire season shut down.