Category: Capmania, Capaphobia, Capaphilia, Capnesia

Byfuglien, Sopel, Eager to Atlanta -- Hawks Not Done Shedding

By Daws Butler | Jun 23rd 2010 | 2 min read |

What does this trade mean? It means the Hawks now have $2.3MM in cap space for next season, with 13 players signed. If this number seems too low, visi...

Hawks Catch a Break

By Daws Butler | Jun 23rd 2010 | 9 min read |

Since we last checked in on the soap opera that is the Chicago Blackhawks cap nightmare, a few things have happened. The NHLPA voted to invoke the 5% ...

Hawks Catch a Break How to Make Your Cap Nightmare Worse

By Daws Butler | Jun 11th 2010 | 4 min read |

I don’t even know what to say. It’s like an April Fool’s joke. Blackhawks exceed salary cap by millions – The Globe and MailWh...

What do Campbell, Huet, Sopel, Ladd, Boynton, Bolland, Madden, Beach and Barker have in common?

By Daws Butler | Jun 10th 2010 | 19 min read |

In my previous posts outlining Chicago’s clusterf*** of a cap situation for 2010-2011, I took it for granted that they had their bonus cushion s...

Chapter IX: In Which I Vacillate Wildly Re Kovalchuk

By Daws Butler | Jun 5th 2010 | 2 min read |

An interesting point/counter-point on the value of Kovalchuk. First, a pro-IK piece from Yahoo Sports (Inside Kovalchuk’s value, where he will s...

I Take Back Everything I Said About the Sharks' Cap Situation

By Daws Butler | May 26th 2010 | 7 min read |

I do not know what I was thinking, really. Forget everything I said in the previous Sharks-cap post. I have revised my numbers, to correct for a previ...

No Cap-22 for Sharks

By Daws Butler | May 24th 2010 | 3 min read |

I do enjoy it when big lurching behemoths spend themselves into a Cap-22. However, looking at San Jose’s cap figures for next year, I don’...

Chicago Cup Run Showcases Talent for Fire Sale

By Daws Butler | May 17th 2010 | 7 min read |

It was clear last several months ago that the Blackhawks couldn’t care less about what was going to happen the summer of 2010. My last thoughts ...

I'll Bite: Who is Leiweke Talking About?

By Daws Butler | Apr 18th 2010 | 12 min read |

Tim Leiweke said this to Rich Hammond last week: “We, as an organization, are going to have some decisions to make between now and July 1, and w...

Hmm: someone mentioned a hypothetical trade of Kovalchuk to Chicago

By Daws Butler | Jan 14th 2010 | 1 min read |

Does this look good?...