CrashingTheGoalie

by Ron Spence
We are told that the average NHL salary is a little over $1.9 million.
We know that some players are making the league minimum, and some will come close to the maximum salary allowed.
But, who are those players who are receiving the league’s average salary – the guys theoretically right in the middle of [...]

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by Ron Spence
In my recent posts, I compared the NBA’s average salaries with those of the NHL. I also listed the fifteen highest paid athletes in each league.
To make this relevant, I tried to show that a number of mediocre NBA players are making as much as the NHL’s best.
In addition, I showed the differences [...]

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by Ron Spence
This post is effectively a background one. In comparing minimum and maximum NBA and NHL salaries, there are a number of variables that have to be noted.
This first table shows the Minimum and Maximum NBA salaries. Tables are needed for NBA salaries, as the league rewards years of experience in calculating salaries (Thus, [...]

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by Ron Spence

Wikipedia claims that only one man has won the Stanley Cup as a player, coach, and manager. Who is that player?
And, because Wikipedia has been given false information, who is the second person to win the coveted Cup in all three capacities?

Jack Adams won a Stanley Cup with the Ottawa Senators after the [...]

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by Ron Spence
In the previous post, NHL SALARIES VS. OTHER MAJOR LEAGUE SPORTS,  I compared the average salaries of North America’s four major league sports.
This post compares the top NHL and NBA salaries (NHL salaries courtesy of Wikipedia. NBA salaries are courtesty of HoopsHype.).

In early September, Kevin Garnett purchased an 8,000+ square foot home in [...]

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The beauty of this wordpress blog system is that you can monitor what your visitors like to read about, or look at.
One of the most popular topics to date has been hockey salaries.
Thus, I have decided to expand this into a more general topic – hockey salaries compared with salaries in other sports.
To begin with, [...]

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by Ron Spence
I had written about Bob Gainey’s impact on the Minnesota North Stars.
And, I was remembering Mike Modano telling me about how Bob Gainey had changed his game, plus the impact of Gainey on the Minnesota/Dallas team’s philosophy:
“I’ve been working on [my two-way play] for a long time. Ever since Bob Gainey came into [...]

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by Ron Spence
The art of negotiating is a complex business. They write books on it, and give one week seminars on how to do it well.
Anyone who is negotiating a business deal involving tens of millions of dollars should take one of these courses – I would think.
One of the first principals of negotiating, is [...]

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by Ron Spence
I wrote the Shibe Stadium article, as a background for what happened to hockey stadiums later on.
People had leisure time, and money, and suddenly had a place to spend it. Things were getting bigger and better. It was a sign of the times.
While these stadiums were being built, cars were also increasing in [...]

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by Ron Spence
The Vancouver Blazers were only a two year blink in B.C.’s hockey history. And, their successor didn’t last much longer in Calgary.
It was fitting that Vancouver should have an outlaw WHA team, as hockey’s previous outlaw circuit had been centered in British Columbia.
The WHA’s franchise was initially allocated to Miami, and was to be [...]

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