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We can dream but we also gotta play the games on the ice. Let’s drop the puck and get started already!

Once again, the new NHL CBA sets a hard cap for all teams, this year at $50 million.

 The midpoint for the cap is $42 million.  In actuality, $42 million times 30 teams will equal about 54 percent of total league revenues. Hence, the midpoint is actually the cap. It is where we are all supposed to be for spending on player personnel. The midpoint is only $8 million from the ceiling. Please stop whining about salary levels in the new NHL.   Pre-lockout, there was no ceiling. We had teams spending $25 million and teams spending $95 million. That is when you should have been very concerned about player payroll expenditures. There was no cap, no floor and less competitiveness than today. Today, the range between the lowest spending teams and the highest spending teams is only $16 million. By positioning the Capitals at the true cap – at the midpoint – we are showing we are making a big investment in our team as our team is not at the midpoint in revenues or attendance. We were able to add to our team in the off season and we did exactly as we said we would do. We have dollars to keep our players in the fold as well. Fans will always want a team to add more skill, more players and more payroll but there is a cap now. There are analytics to what we can spend and when to add to payroll and to whom. I believe we have done a very good job in managing our expenditures and the cap to date. I know message boards are invented to let fans vent but talking about salaries and spending in the new NHL and complaining about what we spend – while fair game – is probably off the point now. End of my rant back at ya.

We launched a new gift card. Check it out. As I have stated, our Web 2.0 platform allows our card to be very unique. It can be a credit card, a gift card and an online payments engine to move money person to person out of a credit line that you establish with us.

We really appreciate all of this great coverage as we begin a new season. This package of material is a great read for all Caps fans and all fans of DC sports.

We really appreciate all of this great coverage as we begin a new season. This package of material is a great read for all Caps fans and all fans of DC sports.

Thanks for the roll call and we appreciate your business. Ticket sales are brisk for the opener although I do not think we will be at a sell-out situation, sad to say. I really appreciate you all coming out to the game. We will have a great and enthusiastic crowd. It will be a fun atmosphere. Wear red!

Thanks for the roll call and we appreciate your business. Ticket sales are brisk for the opener although I do not think we will be at a sell-out situation, sad to say. I really appreciate you all coming out to the game. We will have a great and enthusiastic crowd. It will be a fun atmosphere. Wear red! We have now sold more than 1,000 new season tickets compared to last year so growth is pretty good. We are marketing and selling like crazy. I am hopeful we can be one of the fastest growing teams in the NHL this season and, if the team plays well, add to the momentum during the season. We did NOT hit our goal of 90 percent renewals. We will finish by Saturday night at about 85 percent renewals which is above league average and some of our best stats for a season but still NOT at our goal of 90 percent. We will keep at it. We will break the code one day, I promise. 

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