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A Few Hockey Related Topics

02/05/2017 at 7:31am EST

from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,

- The NHL apparently anticipates the cap to remain flat next season, with little if any increase projected over this year’s $73 million ceiling. That would mean an increase of a paltry 3.998 percent of the players’ pot since 2012-13, the year before the 50/50 formula went into effect.

So the major-market franchises that drive NHL revenue and successful clubs that habitually are cap teams get hammered again in attempting to maintain — or improve — their personnel while the small market clubs go along for the ride.

- We report: Tony Esposito, 886 games, 418-302-147, 2.93 goals-against-average, 2.57 adjusted GAA (thanks Hockey-Reference.com), 74 shutouts; no Stanley Cup after having allowed perhaps the worst goal in NHL playoff history, the Game 7 90-footer to Jacques Lemaire that tilted the 1971 final on its head; Ed Belfour, 963 games, 484-320-125, 2.50 GAA, 2.60 adjusted GAA, one Cup.

You decide: Whether Tony O, rather than Belfour should have been a Greatest 100.

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