Flyers Season thread

[PhillyGirl]

Flyers opening game is tentatively set for October 5th at home vs. the RANGERS 

Will the Rangers even be able to field a team after having to cut all that salary?

lol, yeah, like a farm team

[Rome]

Flyers ask Birds for cap help

Their new "capologist" consulted Joe Banner on how to manage payroll and keep on winning.

By Tim Panaccio

Inquirer Staff Writer


The NHL is going to a $39 million salary cap. And, as they have in the NFL, teams are designating personnel to fill the role of capologist.

Barry Hanrahan, assistant to general manager Bob Clarke, has been given that task for the Flyers.

Hanrahan met with Eagles president Joe Banner late in the 2003-04 NHL season, getting a four-hour crash course in managing a salary cap.

Banner has been the Eagles' cap wizard for a decade and is considered one of the sharpest cap managers in pro football.

"Barry was down there with the Eagles, and they were good enough to take us in and show us how they run their program, and Barry's stayed in touch with them since," Clarke said yesterday.

"Joe Banner and his crew were very helpful. They even had some of the guys who work under Banner on the cap at the meetings, too, helping us out. The NFL cap may be a lot bigger than ours, but the system is not necessarily any different."

Banner, who is vacationing on Martha's Vineyard, said yesterday he found it interesting that the Flyers were planning a year in advance of implementation of a salary cap, even though there were no assurances it would happen.

"They seemed appreciative of our input and we were happy to help," Banner said.

"They were trying to find out things about the NFL cap that they thought might be incorporated into an NHL cap - how we related our salary cap to making personnel decisions."

Also at that meeting was Howie Roseman, director of football administration, who works with Banner on cap matters.

"Knowing that a new collective-bargaining agreement was in the works, we weren't sure what was coming, but we figured some form of a cap," said Hanrahan, who joined the Flyers in 1997 as director of team services. "It was a chance to familiarize ourselves with what to expect in a cap environment."

The Flyers plan to stay in touch with Banner during the hockey season to discuss cap matters.

"They've got training camp coming up, we've got all these CBA matters, and with things going on, we haven't had a chance to meet up lately," Hanrahan said. "They have been very helpful, especially in discussing the philosophies of a salary-cap environment.

"The biggest thing we learned was preparation and planning. Everything you do from here on out not only secures a player for this year, but sets the table for what you will or won't be able to do in future years, as well as in terms of putting a team together."

[Seabiscuit36]

Smart decision by the flyers to learn a full year ahead of when possibly needed.  They had the foresight to know they have the best in the football world a block over and sounds like will take full advantage of the opportunity to work with the eagles.  Im curious how they make decision on players though.  Do Banner's understudys get scouting reports and work from there?

[Seabiscuit36]

July 23: Buyout period begins; also begins the period to negotiate with 2003 draft picks and teams' own free agents.
-July 28: 5 p.m. EDT deadline for signing 2003 draft picks (otherwise they re-enter 2005 draft); deadline for exercising club/player options for 2005-06 season.
-July 29: 5 p.m. EDT deadline for player buyouts.
-July 30: NHL entry draft in Ottawa. Modified version with only top prospects invited and cut down from nine to seven rounds.
-July 31: 5 p.m. EDT deadline to extend qualifying offers to clubs' own free agents. Qualifying offers are needed to retain rights of restricted free agents.
-Aug. 1: Official free-agent signing season begins.
-Aug. 10: Players notify teams whether they've elected salary arbitration.
-Aug. 11: Clubs notify players whether they've elected to bring them to salary arbitration
-Aug. 12: NHL and NHLPA schedule arbitration cases.
-Aug. 15: Qualifying offers expire automatically.
-Aug. 22-Sept. 1: Salary arbitration hearings

[BigEd76]

JR on Goodenow

[PhillyGirl]

New Beginning for NHL
TSN.ca Staff
7/22/2005 2:53:26 PM

National Hockey League owners unanimously ratified the new collective bargaining agreement, bringing an official end to the lockout which wiped out an entire season and saw the Stanley Cup not awarded for the first time since 1919.

To no one's surprise, the vote was 30-0 in favour of the new agreement.

NHL players formally accepted the new deal on Thursday with 87 percent of the membership voting in favour of the deal.

"Well folks, it's over," said NHL commissioner Gary Bettman

The deal will see NHL hockey return this fall under a drastically new financial landscape which includes hard salary cap of around $39 million per team with teams required to spend at least $21.5 million on player salaries. Players will receive 54 percent of league revenues, which are projected to be about $1.7 billion for the 2005-06 season.

"With the ratification of the CBA, let me be the first to welcome you to our new season," said Bettman who confirmed that the 2005-06 season will begin October 5th with all 30 clubs in action.

With the league's redesigned silver and black logo serving as a backdrop, Bettman also unveiled the new rule changes which will take effect this fall, aimed at opening up the game and increasing scoring, part of a plan to lure back disenchanted fans.

Among the changes fans will see this season is the implementation of the shootout to decide a winner in every game, the removal of the center ice red line, a return to the tag-up offside rule, moving the nets two feet closer to the end boards while limiting the goaltenders ability to play the puck around the net and a reduction in goaltender's equipment.

Bettman says the new rules will put an emphasis on offense and flow. A new joint player-league competition committee has also been created to oversee the new rule changes.

"We will do everything in our power to be the best we can be and to earn your continued devotion," Bettman said in addressing hockey fans everywhere.

"We pledge to our fans we will do everything we can to make it up to you."

Bettman confirmed that NHL players will take part in the 2006 Olympics in Turin, Italy as well as the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. In those Olympic years, the NHL All-Star Game will not be played.

[Geowhizzer]

I'm OK with everything but the shootout.  I know it brings the "casual" fans because it's exciting, but to me it's not hockey.

It's be like ending a baseball game with a home run derby, or a basketball game with a slam dunk contest.

Play one full overtime period. 

[PhillyGirl]

No f'ing way. enough of this "hockey purist" bullshtein. The shootouts are going to be fantastic.

[MURP]

I would watch if they just had a shootout.  Who needs the first 3 hours of scoreless nonsense anyway!

[Geowhizzer]

No f'ing way. enough of this "hockey purist" bullshtein. The shootouts are going to be fantastic.

to you. 

[PhillyGirl]

I would watch if they just had a shootout.  Who needs the first 3 hours of scoreless nonsense anyway!

I'll hold you to that. 

[PhillyGirl]

Lottery is coming up soon. 

[Seabiscuit36]

 

[Seabiscuit36]

stinkin pittsburg

[Seabiscuit36]

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