Sloppy hockey is the name of the game early in NHL season
Sloppy is the term being used all over the league to describe play in the first two weeks of the season. After no exhibition games and no action at all for seven teams in the past 10 months there have been plenty of odd-man rushes and mistakes, with six goals a game being scored on average.
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With an outbreak delaying the Dallas Stars opener, Rick Bowness got to watch a lot of hockey in the first couple of nights of the NHL season. It wasn t a coach s dream.
“This is the hardest year to manage a flat cap,” Blues general manager Doug Armstrong said by phone. “It’s certainly no one’s fault at the league or the PA or the players or the management. It just caught everybody off guard.”
A team can’t be over the cap and would have to play with fewer than the standard 18 skaters if necessary. It has happened a handful of times since the cap was implemented in 2005.
What’s usually a difficult balancing act became a trapeze show this year for GMs and their cap gurus to save every dollar. According to the database site Puckpedia, 22 of 31 teams either started the season using the long-term injured reserve exemption to go over or were within $2 million of the cap.
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