MillionDollarCam

Not expecting him to stick around unless the Saints win our shitty division.

Maybe, but they will probably turn it around before we do.

That doesn’t matter bud… there’s enough restructures out there where the Panthers can still manage to get under the salary cap next year… like I said, the Saints do it every year… the Saints spend damn near to the limit every year and were somehow in talks to acquire Watson… with what money, I don’t know… but it’s obviously possible to be competitive by spending to the limit and just pushing everything down the road. And as for Tepper spending, that’s not true at all… now you’d be talking about something that you don’t know… if you think that’s the case then why is his soccer team 27th out of 28th in salaries?

Just using it as an example my guy… it doesn’t even necessarily have to be him. The point is that internal budgets are out there. Even with roll over, that’s a cool $5M that the Panthers aren’t using. On the contrary, a team like the Saints constantly pushes the limit.

They don’t have to be game changers but they can certainly provide depth to a team that currently has none… James Bradberry has been what I’d call a game changer.

The salary roll over has to be finalized on the day following the last regular season game… did Carolina say they were rolling over $10M last year? I couldn’t find that, maybe you can.

And if you sign a player to a one year deal it opens it up the following year anyway… never said we had to sign someone to a long term contract.

I’d say the Panthers aren’t currently using all of their resources, they have $10M in cap space right now and could have easily added additional pieces. Next year will be tricky but hell, all we have to do is restructure a bunch of contracts and kick the can. An internal budget is a budget that the owner sets and says all in all we are not going over this number this year and in reality it has nothing to do with being poor, it has everything to do with greed. There’s much more to a franchise this just the product on the field. All of that money has to come from somewhere. If Tepper can save $10M this year then why the hell not…

Some teams have an internal budget… it’s fairly common knowledge. Hell, being a Carolina Hurricanes fan I’d know this, different sport, but the premise is the same… until the Canes were sold they were a budget team. Some teams value that extra money as paying an additional salary has to come out of someone’s pocket… it’s not just magic money. I’ll have to lookup the article when I have a bit more time but it came out recently.

That doesn’t mean teams are working with the same budget… if you think that the Jaguars are working with the same budget as the Cowboys, then there’s no point in having this conversation (there was an article about this recently)… and yes, internal budgets affect how teams operate within the salary cap. The NBA probably has the fairest model in professional sports but they also have the worst parity because 1) their players are divas and like to team up and 2) it’s much easier for one individual to have an impact on a game when there are only five players on the court… landing one singular superstar can truly alter a franchise. The NFL’s hard cap allows those with money to manipulate it by continuing to push money down the road and those without money (or a smaller budget) to stay within its’ constraints at all times… and with no penalty, teams with money continue kicking money into the year 3000. I’d prefer to open the whole thing up and either not have a cap so that we can stop pretending this hard cap is for parity reasons or have a soft cap and penalize teams for going into the luxury tax.

Calgary reminds me of a better version of Columbus. Tons of offensive firepower, average defense, though they did try to improve it with Weegar, and average to sometimes below average goaltending. Good recipe for success in the regular season when teams aren’t locking everything down, but not a great recipe for success in the playoffs. Edmonton annihilated both their defense and Markstrom in the playoffs last year, to the tune of 25 goals in 5 games to be exact.

No one’s saying it’s that the salary cap is a moral compass… my only argument is that if you are going to have a cap in place then the cap needs to be honored year around or at the very minimum the window for teams to become cap complaint needs to shrink drastically. Otherwise, let’s get rid of the cap and go the MLB route and let teams buy championships… The argument that you always hear is that there wouldn’t be any parity… Well since 2000… MLB - With no salary cap - 15 different World Series Winners NFL - With a salary cap - 13 different Super Bowl Winners If you are going to have a cap then it needs to be enforced and enforced in a much tighter window than it is now, or just say fug it and get rid of it.

Good God… I want to laugh at our misery but this poo is dumb… after the Bobby Phills incident, you’d think the team would take all these reckless driving violations a little more serious… it’s all fun and games until he kills himself or another person… smh.

Undefeated Teams Left Hurricanes (3-0-0) Idle Flyers (3-0-0) @ Panthers tonight Stars (3-0-0) Idle Blues (1-0-0) @ Kraken tonight Flames (3-0-0) Idle

Well, the Flyers complete the comeback and beat Tampa 3-2. On the other hand, Ottawa has beaten the Bruins and Vegas is currently up 2-0. Undefeated Teams Left Hurricanes (3-0-0) Idle Flyers (3-0-0) beat Tampa Stars (3-0-0) Idle Blues (1-0-0) Idle Golden Knights (3-0-0) @ Flames tonight Flames (2-0-0) vs. Golden Knights tonight’s

Tampa is going to continue to struggle if they don’t get help from supporting players like Hagel and Paul… both have combined for exactly zero points through nearly three games.

Flyers tie it… on the PP. Torts has Philly playing tough, it’ll be interesting to see how they do once they face adversity.

The Senators blew a three goal lead in around 12 minutes of game time… they’ve since retaken the lead, 4-3, over the Bruins.

Tampa’s PP is so lethal, guys have come and gone but their PP remains damn good… a lot of that can be attributed to Stamkos.

The Senators are absolutely busting the Bruins, they might fall from the unbeaten ranks.

Whoever made the anonymous Twitter post never came forward.

Texas Pete… born in the Carolina’s.

First period for Ian Cole, first penalty for Ian Cole…

Me trying to figure out the PFF stuff.

Hell, they should start with the actual team.