Where Maple Leafs Fans Can Find Salary Cap Information Following Report of CapFriendly's Impending Shutdown Due to Capitals Purchase of the Site
The flow of NHL contract information will not stop even as great websites shut down. It will continue to evolve.
Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman dropped a bombshell of a story on Sunday when he reported that the Washington Capitals will be purchasing popular NHL salary cap site CapFriendly.com with a sale expected by July 5th at the earliest.
Once the deal closes, all of CapFriendly's data will go offline, leading many in search of a different resource to get their NHL salary fix. Luckily. there is already a good site out there that acts as a go-to for many, including myself.
PuckPedia.com has been in operation for years and details a breakdown of all the pertinent NHL salary cap information. Created by Hart Levine, the site was already a go-to for finding out information on NHL contracts and their agent tracker is second to nobody.
Over the past year, the site has undergone a massive revamp, including a 'Pick Value' and 'Cap Relief' calculator.
The site is a great resource to learn everything you need to know about the NHL's salary cap.
Change is never easy in the space of NHL salary cap calculations and reporters like myself rely on the work of Hart and others to verify accurate reflections of what NHL teams can and cannot do under cap parameters. But for those fearing that the information will one day be closed for good, rest assured that will not happen.
When CapGeek's ceased operations just before founder Matthew Wuest passing following a two-and-a-half-year battle with colon cancer, others picked up the slack. Later that year, Tom Porazska, a Maple Leafs, fan created General Fanager to keep track of salary cap information. One year later, Porazska was hired by the Vegas Golden Knights and his site was shut down. CapFriendly and PuckPedia have since carried the torch. While one of the sites is going away, history shows there is always an enthusiasm for hockey and great websites will always exist if the talent is there to spearhead it.
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