I've talked about this a little in the past, but here's my take at Globe on Hockey on the fact that NHL teams bear none of the punishment when their players goon it up.
by James Mirtle @ 2:44 PM
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A sportswriter at The Globe and Mail, James covers the NHL and the game of hockey. He is a member of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association, a senior editor with McKeen's Hockey and was the NHL network manager at SB Nation from 2008 to 2010. A graduate of Thompson Rivers and Ryerson universities, James grew up in Kamloops, B.C. — one of Canada's great hockey cities — and was a season ticket holder in the Blazers' glory years.
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5 Comments:
That's a really good idea for the next CBA negotiation. It certainly hurts the team a lot more than a 100,000$ fine would.
I left a comment over at G&M too, but my main problem with this idea is that it is a deterrent for the top-spending teams only. You could cap-penalize Phoenix half a dozen times and they wouldn't even notice.
This past basketball season, when there was talk about the poorest teams tanking to get a better draft pick, I think their commissioner was considering the possibility of penalizing teams ping-pong balls in the draft lottery for tanking. His thought was that the integregy of the game required teams to try and win, instead of deliberately losing to some opponents that might be in a playoff race, while another team fighting for the playoffs would be playing against a team that was actually trying.
I wonder if there might be some way to penalize teams in the draft for repeated bad player decisions. Not necessarily taking away picks, but maybe dropping them down some spots? A bad team not near the cap might think about having a draft pick drop from number five to number 20, even if the cap hit doesn't matter.
Just my dos pesos.
I think they should penalize the team by NOT allowing them to replace that player for the duration of the suspension (or maybe some portion of it... say half for example). The team must play with a short bench. It punishes the team as well as the player. Unfortunately this would never get the support of the NHLPA.
Unfortunately this would never get the support of the NHLPA.
Why the heck not? Isn't this an issue of workplace safety?? What kind of "union" is this???
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