Comments on Gainey plays cool salary-cap game

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July 20

Montreal Gazette

columnist Stu Cowan

It's obviously going to take more than a salary cap to stop some National Hockey League general managers from spending money like drunken sailors. It was former NHL Players' Association executive director Bob Goodenow's insistence that his group would "never, never, never" accept a salary cap that resulted in the lockout that wiped out the entire 2004-05 season and cost the players a year's salary. I imagine a lot of NHL players are kicking themselves for listening to Goodenow now that the salary cap has soared from $39 million in the first season after the lockout to $56.7 million for the 2008-09 campaign. With a roster limit of 23 players, that works out to an average salary of just under $2.5 million. The biggest complaint about the salary cap seems to be coming from some of the poorer NHL teams who will struggle to make the minimum payroll of $40.7 million for the coming season. One general manager who hasn't spent his money like a drunken sailor is the Canadiens' Bob Gainey - and he has even been criticized for it.

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