Flyers Season thread

[BigEd76]

NHL Draft Lottery:

The lottery formula is as follows - each team begins with three balls. For every playoff appearance in the last three years or No. 1 overall pick over the last four years, a team loses one ball. But each team will still be guaranteed to have one ball in the lottery. The first round will go with teams picking 1 through 30, with the 30th team picking 31st and the draft order 'snaking' back and forth in a seven round draft.

There's some confusion over the #1 pick thing (is it the actual pick or who won it originally?  ), but from what I can tell, it's the following:

3 balls = Buffalo, Florida, NY Rangers (who I think will get Crosby  )
2 balls = Anaheim, Atlanta, Calgary, Carolina, Chicago, Columbus, Edmonton, Los Angeles, Minnesota, Nashville, Phoenix, Pittsburgh
1 ball = Boston, Colorado, Dallas, Detroit, Montreal, New Jersey, NY Islanders, Ottawa, Philly, St. Louis, San Jose, Tampa Bay, Toronto, Vancouver, Washington

[PhillyGirl]

Expected terms as per ESPN.com:

Term: Six years.

Salary rollback: All remaining contracts will be rolled back 24 percent. The rollback will also impact players who must be given qualifying offers for new deals. Those qualifying offers will be based on a player's salary in his last contracted year, minus the 24 percent rollback.

2004-05 contracts: Those contracts will simply disappear from the ledger. Players, however, will be credited with a "year of service." Years of service can determine a player's free-agent status.

Salary cap: Each team must meet a minimum, but not exceed a maximum payroll number. For the 2005-06 season, the high-end threshold will be approximately $37-$39.5 million. The low-end threshold will be between $21.5-$24.5 million.

The numbers are based on the league's projection of revenue for the 2005-06 season. The projection is approximately $1.7-$1.8 billion. According to the league, total revenues for the last complete season (2003-04) were $2.1 billion.

If revenues increase, the salary cap thresholds will increase on a season-to-season basis. If revenues decrease, the salary cap thresholds will decrease on a season-to-season basis.

Buyouts: Teams will be allowed a window of time to buyout player contracts. A player can be bought out for two-thirds of the total remaining value of his contract, minus the 24 percent rollback. A team will not be allowed to re-sign a player they have bought out for a still to be determined amount of time. The money spent to buyout a player will NOT count against the salary cap.

Escrow: A still to be determined percent of players salaries will be placed in an escrow account. In the new deal, league-wide payroll can't exceed 54 percent of total league-wide revenue. If league-wide payroll is determined to be more than 54 percent of revenues, the escrow account will be passed back to the clubs. If league-wide payroll is determined to be less than 54 percent of revenues, the escrow account will go to the players.

Individual team-by-team player cap: No single player can earn more than 20 percent of his team's total payroll. For example, a team with a total team payroll of $37.5 million couldn't pay a single player more than $7.5 million.

Revenue-sharing: The top 10 revenue clubs will contribute to a pool that will be redistributed to the bottom 10 revenue clubs. The NHLPA proposed a similar revenue sharing component in 1994 during the league's first lockout.

Unrestricted free agency: It will remain frozen at age 31 for the first year of the new CBA. It will gradually decrease to age 28 during the life of the deal.

Salary arbitration: The club and the player will both have ability to elect to go to arbitration. Although not confirmed, I believe NHL will go to a baseball-style arbitration system that calls for both sides to submit a salary figure and an arbitrator to decide on one number or the other. There will be a limit on the number of times a team or player can go to arbitration. And, the clubs will have a limited number of times they can walk away from an arbitrator's decision. Under the old system, the clubs could not take players to arbitration.

Qualifying offers: Players making less than $660,000 must be tendered qualifying offers of 110 percent of their final contracted season's salary. Players making between $660,000.01 and $1 million must be tendered qualifying offers of 105 percent of their final contracted season's salary. Players making over $1 million must be tendered qualifying offers of 100 percent of their final contracted season's salary.

Entry level contracts: Entry level contracts will be capped $850,000 per season, with a maximum signing bonus at 10 percent of salary per season. The contracts will be three years in length.

Minimum salary: The minimum salary will be $400,000. Under the old agreement, the league minimum was $175,000.

2006 Winter Olympics: The NHL will shut down operations in February 2006 to allow players to participate in the Winter Olympics. To accommodate the scheduling issues, the league will cancel its 2005-06 All-Star Weekend (scheduled for Phoenix).

[Rome]

So Flyers season ticket holders can expect a 24% rollback in ticket prices, correct?

[MadMarchHare]

 

[Seabiscuit36]

NHL Draft Lottery:

The lottery formula is as follows - each team begins with three balls. For every playoff appearance in the last three years or No. 1 overall pick over the last four years, a team loses one ball. But each team will still be guaranteed to have one ball in the lottery. The first round will go with teams picking 1 through 30, with the 30th team picking 31st and the draft order 'snaking' back and forth in a seven round draft.

There's some confusion over the #1 pick thing (is it the actual pick or who won it originally?  ), but from what I can tell, it's the following:

3 balls = Buffalo, Florida, NY Rangers (who I think will get Crosby  )
2 balls = Anaheim, Atlanta, Calgary, Carolina, Chicago, Columbus, Edmonton, Los Angeles, Minnesota, Nashville, Phoenix, Pittsburgh
1 ball = Boston, Colorado, Dallas, Detroit, Montreal, New Jersey, NY Islanders, Ottawa, Philly, St. Louis, San Jose, Tampa Bay, Toronto, Vancouver, Washington

= Karma....need Karma 

[Wingspan]

Expected terms as per ESPN.com:

Term: Six years.Revenue-sharing: The top 10 revenue clubs will contribute to a pool that will be redistributed to the bottom 10 revenue clubs.

you know what this means? the flyers will technically be paying rod brindamour again

[QB Eagles]

Wow, those are some huge hands!

[Geowhizzer]

NHL Draft Lottery:

The lottery formula is as follows - each team begins with three balls. For every playoff appearance in the last three years or No. 1 overall pick over the last four years, a team loses one ball. But each team will still be guaranteed to have one ball in the lottery. The first round will go with teams picking 1 through 30, with the 30th team picking 31st and the draft order 'snaking' back and forth in a seven round draft.

There's some confusion over the #1 pick thing (is it the actual pick or who won it originally?  ), but from what I can tell, it's the following:

3 balls = Buffalo, Florida, NY Rangers (who I think will get Crosby  )
2 balls = Anaheim, Atlanta, Calgary, Carolina, Chicago, Columbus, Edmonton, Los Angeles, Minnesota, Nashville, Phoenix, Pittsburgh
1 ball = Boston, Colorado, Dallas, Detroit, Montreal, New Jersey, NY Islanders, Ottawa, Philly, St. Louis, San Jose, Tampa Bay, Toronto, Vancouver, Washington

= Karma....need Karma 

[PhillyGirl]

JR considers Flyers Stanely Cup contenders...will be playing RW on a line with Primeau and Kapanen


JR on the excitement about getting the deal done


Ideas on how to win the fans back

He's got some great ideas. 

[Geowhizzer]

  I can't wait to see JR give GF a hug.

[PhillyGirl]

Anyone know what the deal is with Zhamnov? I know with the 2 kids coming up, and the size of his salary, he's looking like a goner, but I hate to see him on another team.

[MURP]

I made a little song for the Flyers this year:





fly flyers fly
on the road to making the fans cry

fly flyers fly
if lindros says one more thing we will make him die

shoot the puck low, shoot the puck wide
just make sure Bob Probert is on your side...

fly flyers fly
on the road to Nine and Seventy Three.


F L Y E R S

[PhillyGirl]

I married into this?  

[Geowhizzer]

I married into this?  

Just think, PG, sooner or later you may be having his children... 

[rjs246]

I made a little song for the Flyers this year:





fly flyers fly
on the road to making the fans cry

fly flyers fly
if lindros says one more thing we will make him die

shoot the puck low, shoot the puck wide
just make sure Bob Probert is on your side...

fly flyers fly
on the road to Nine and Seventy Three.


F L Y E R S

That actually just made me laugh.