- AYOYE!!!!!!!
- C'est la PANIQUE sur le marché COMPLET..
- Agents, joueurs, dirigeants...sont dans le NÉANT COMPLET...
- Le PLAFOND pourrait même BAISSER...
- Les joueurs paniquaient si le plafond demeurait le même..
- Imaginez s'il baisse...
NHL player agent Allan Walsh says it's still too early to say how much this year's free agent marketplace will be affected by the disruption because there are too many unknowns.
"When I talk to GMs, when I talk to people at the NHLPA, when I talk to players, when I talk to coaches, no one has answers. No one. No one knows what the market is going to look like," Walsh said from his home in Los Angeles.
It's not clear if the salary cap is going to go up as it was projected to before the outbreak, or if it will stay flat, or even go down.
"You cannot have free agency until we know what the upper limit of the salary cap will be next season," Walsh said, adding it is fair to expect a new financial landscape.
By his count, the league could already be looking at more than $1 billion in lost revenue from 2019-20 if it's unable to complete the current season.
He says returning to play in arenas without fans — as has been suggested — would be one way to limit the fallout, but the losses would still be significant.
Walsh estimates that the NHL could lose up to 60 per cent of future earnings if they return to action in a made-for-TV model with empty arenas.