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Originally Posted by JeffR
No, but just to clarify: what I think we actually need to do here is adjust the cap values in the historical seasons. The historically-adjusted dollar amounts aren't literal representations of the finances in a particular season (doing that would lead to big problems because the NHL's finances have had some radical up- and down-swings - like the salary increases after the NHLPA formed or the decreases after the 2005 lockout - which would be very messy for the game's financial systems if we duplicated them, so the dollar translation for historical systems smooths things out a bit). So you don't have a particular advantage or disadvantage over other teams, but we should be dropping the cap down along with the rest of the finances so it matches the in-game salaries for that year a little better.
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Thanks for answering. I get that everyone is restricted to the same amount, but it does cause an unbalance to the game: all other teams for some reason are above their budget which makes it impossible to make trades for them outside of the July unless I eat in a lot of money, or I force a trade, which I don't like to do.
Also, I don't know my NHL contract rule history, but now that I'm in 2006 (after the lockout), isn't there a rule for rookies to have a cap on rookie contacts? Crosby (who I managed to draft @ 7th overall surprisingly) was asking for over 2 M, but I thought rookies could only go up to 925,000. Is this something you guys weren't expecting or were there some rule in 2006-07 that I'm not aware of.