Sunday, August 26, 2007

The Shootout and...

The shootout was brought in following the end of the lock-out that forced the cancellation of the 2004-05 season.

In the first season of the shootout, there was 290 games that needed the shootout. It produced 330 goals on 981 shots. A shootout would occur every 8.5 games. The Dallas Stars were the champions of the shootout in 2005-06, they had a record of 12-1. The Islanders had the best home record,6-1.The Dallas Stars had the best road record in the shootout.

Last season, 2006-07,the number of shootouts went up from 290 of the previous season to 328 and produced 398 goals on 1215 shots. A shootout occured every 7.5 games last season.The Tampa Bay lightning were the champions last year with a record of 10-2.The Minnesota Wild had the best home record at 7-4.Again Dallas won the road record with 7-2.

The long term injury exemption

Ever the since the CBA has come out,there has been a misconception about the accounting of the salary cap during the period a player is placed on the LTI list.The salary continues to count, even if his team is bumping against the upper limit. Let's say player B from club x is placed on LTI, and the so called club has a cap hit of 42 million and the cap limit is 44 million,the injured player's salary is 4 million, the club has the option of replacing him with as many players it wishes, as long as the total of the salary of the replacements is not higher than the player's salary.For further information please visit this site.

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