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Thursday, April 22, 2010
Salary caps can be controlled by opposing GMs?
Yes!
As I understand it, if payment of those bonuses causes their teams to exceed the salary cap, it comes off of next year’s cap. So, to be clear, the 27 GM’s who don’t run Toronto, Montreal and Boston can potentially reduce the cap space available to their competition by voting for their players to win the Vezina.
As there are so few voters, it doesn’t necessarily take a lot of votes to put a guy into the top five. Voters pick someone for 1st-2nd-3rd, with points counting on a 5-3-1 basis. In 2006-07, Dominik Hasek finished fifth with 5 third place votes. In 2007-08, Miikka Kiprusoff finished 5th with a first place vote and two third place votes. The electorate is small enough that a couple of general managers voting out of self interest could skew the voting.
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