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Originally Posted by krownroyal83
I don't think there is but is there any way to raise the cap floor in the modern NHL? I'm just wondering if doing that would force the AI to start spending more money on the players they should be spending that money on. As people have noticed teams don't always give players the money they deserve thus a lot of teams never have major cap issues. I'm wondering if raising the cap floor might make what the AI does a bit more realistic.
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No, that won't affect the AI's behaviour in the way you want. And bear in mind that anything that makes the AI aggressive about pushing the cap limits can have extremely negative effects in the game - if nobody has much cap room and therefore can't take on additional salary, the options for teams that get into cap trouble get pretty ugly. Without a way to make salary dump trades, the AI starts doing things like squeezing every penny out of the small amount of cap hit they can hide in the minors, which leads to very good players being sent down, or not qualifying any of it's RFA's. That's why AI teams tend to be conservative in their spending, and the players accomodate that, to an extent.