I'm glad you have a clear understanding of how billionaires operate.

What about NBA salary site?

I just cannot fathom how the NHL can let this happen when it benefits every NHL team, sports writer, and fan. This site is the envy of every professional sports organization in its dedication to accuracy and popularity to grow hockey. I will forever despise the Washington Capitals in this senseless act of selfishness.

I agree it is horrible for the fans and I will miss this site, takes a lot of the fun out of the game. I will likely be less engaged next season as a result.
But not much the NHL can do about it. free enterprise in action.

I don't think you understand what "public company" means. The Capitals are a privately owned company. CapFriendly is a privately owned company. The two companies came to a mutually agreed upon deal to sell CapFriendly to the Capitals. The NHL has no avenue to get involved here.

The NHLs response would be that teams should have been tracking this information themselves since the onset of the salary cap era. What did they do prior to the existence of CapGeek and CapFriendly? They'll have to go back to doing that.

Alternatively, the Capitals will sell them access for a premium, which is absolutely within their rights now that they own the platform.

I will miss the site dearly. My dad showed the site to me when i was a kid and i spent so much time on it. The Washington Capitals have ruined the season in two ways for me, first knockings the wings out of the playoffs and now this. Go to hell washington

I will miss the site dearly. My dad showed the site to me when i was a kid and i spent so much time on it. The Washington Capitals have ruined the season in two ways for me, first knockings the wings out of the playoffs and now this. Go to hell caps

Rest in power CF. Had lots of pointless arguments over silly fake hockey trades. . . I still remember the first armchair GM I posted, got flamed so hard for that one.

Good times.

Does anyone know what will happen with the new "Salary Swish" site? I assume it will be part of the sale to the Caps but haven't seen that reported anywhere.

Good for the people of CapFriendly to cash in.

I think the NBA website will continue, no reason for the Caps to want it

Dude, This was my site i got to see so many bad trades in, And the site i use for hockey signings and news.

F**K you Washington

Ted Leonsis owns the Washington Wizards. I don't think there's another resource for the NBA like SalarySwish and the NBA's contract structures and trade rules are much more complicated, so keeping it would make sense to keep it out of the hands of others, I guess.

It's a different web domain; so if the articles/news are accurate and complete this sale only refers to CapFriendly.com

So happy for this news!

Glad to see Rick From Red Deer gets to be reintegrated into society once the site goes dark. Wouldn't want you going bored...

So I imagine that Ovi discovered that there's a website that lets ordinary people can find out how poor his $'s per point is and told Caps management that they needed to find a way to shut it down......

Hard to say. Most reports of the sale only refer to the Capitals purchasing the CapFriendly website, so I'm not sure if they're just buying the site itself or if they're also hiring the guys that run it. Vegas hired the guy that ran General Fanager, and Chicago hired one of the CapFriendly guys not too long ago.

If they are indeed hiring the minds behind it, I can't imagine they would have time to also run Salary Swish and I would expect it to close as well.

If they aren't hiring them, then I would expect Salary Swish to remain open.

Just saw this from Jarvis.

Looks like Salary Swish is indeed staying open, as new features are on the horizon.

Forums are a dying breed. I was a part of various ones through the years (hockeyfights.com, Fried Chickens Hockey Fight Site, Prowrestling.com, Mocospace, etc). This was the last one I was still a part of as all the others went the way of the dodo. Sad times. RIP.

MAKE FORUMS GREAT AGAIN✊

Just watched The Hockey Guy's latest video on it and he explained how the NHL wants to make it so we no longer have access to any internal data (no contract info like cap hits, term, clauses etc). This would really suck for fan engagement and if they did somehow manage to do that in this day and age I think that would just backfire on them.

I really question the NHL's decision making more and more every day

The NHL is "owned" by the 32 owners. The NHL executives including Bettman are just employees of the owners. Unfortunately the owners have given so much power to Bettman and Bettman's bootlickers.
Most NHL teams are owned by corporations, not sports guys that want to own a professional team sports or hockey team. So they just let the suits in the NHL head office do what they want.
IMO Bettman has been awful for the NHL owners generally. Too many failed franchises which the "rich" owners constantly have to bailed out. All that was a puny national USA TV contract, which Bettman promised 25 years would rival the NBA's TV revenue.

Boom!

PuckPedia will be fine. This site isn't a big loss in the scheme of things. The forum isn't a loss whatsoever and maybe now some users here can stop thinking they are big shots because they dont go outside and have tenure on a posting forum lmao
Capgeek was the standard and now PuckPedia will take the new traffic and become another Capgeek/Capfriendly.

Makes me wonder if all the backlash towards Vegas triggered this.

The fact the NHL wants to hide everything just makes me want to make sure everything is public even more