Inflation in the NHL? This year there was an increase in the need of the defender.  This differs from every other year because the focus is now on an offensive defender, or a defender moving disk eraser.  Because of increased need the offense, wages are beginning to grow ever more to these defender and forward.            To examine what the basis for these salaries is, I run a regression and I understood the number of games played, goals, aid, points and plus / minus of ? s? of player evaluation.  Since the game is playing in a concentrated offensive, these statistics were the best for understanding why are raising salaries and the players are asking for more.            After the race regression, all r-squares were reasonably low, but shows and aid were the highest of all categories.  This would have meant because that is what many of the directors-general are looking into players.  What strikes you as odd r-squared of more / less.  This is the lowest of all categories.  As the plus / minus is the best way to understand how a player is on both sides of the rubber disk (when only looking at the statistics), you would think that this r-squared was the highest.  There are several players who are making a large number of money and have very low / minus evaluation. Nell'appena look at the numbers, it is clear that players are producing the bulk of the offense.  The brain Campbell (defender) and Marian Hossa (right) were the two major free agents on the market.  Because of their offensive skills, could both the order over seven million U.S. dollars in salary.  Both are among the leaders in all categories except the plus / minus.  Campbell has more respectable / minus eight, but Hossa is the negation fourteen.  This number submitted the application, you are really willing to earn a player for the offense if going to be defensive reliability? Where to base salaries on offensive skills becomes a problem is when a team signing the defender unfounded to a large salary.  The sheets of maple Toronto signed the bars of Jeff to a contract worth 3.5 million dollars a year.  Last year, the bars have played for the Colorado Avalanche. During the regular season, had good plus / minus, but his offensive production was nowhere near 3.5 million U.S. dollars in value.  This increase in salary is driving the numbers and is making it hard for you to other teams to sign restricted free agents and without restriction.  the deal gave Toronto the bars seem ridiculous when compared to other defender close to its production levels.  Randy Jones to 2.75 million Brookes Laich and a 2 million who are both considerably less money.  Both defender could put up more than thirty points and were signed for less money. The NHL should be able to charge these salaries increasing. The salaries of? s? of a player are swelling rapidly and if not careful, are going to start losing players to KHL (an International Hockey League).  Many times, is a result of a player who is more to sign him then that's true, as Jeff Fingers. Once a player receives in salary this collision, everything else believes that apply the same.  If the salaries of? s? continu player of the Aare inflate, the NHL is not going to sign players of the star and may lose the international leagues.  That does not help a league that is already lack of support that it needs.  with the increased salaries and the decline in the value of the dollar, many many players start to be observed overseas to play hokey.   to stop salaries from, is on Managers. Many general managers such as Paul Holmgren (Philadelphia) and Ken Holland (Detroit) have done a great job in spreading the salary and sign the players needed.  Others are also thinking about the branches and are signing players to big contracts, which the player has not earned nor ago indicate the potential for.  This must change. This edition is going to make it harder for you to the NHL survive a.  directors-general must be more careful with how they are spending their money and where they are spending it.  In my opinion, it would be smart to note is more / less to get a better idea? s? player of the offensive and defensive skills.  Then, after it was examined, look at the statistics for other players to see how they can produce for the team.  This will help teams to spend wisely and create more space for prospectuses and senior venenti. The + /-AveryLW3, 875.000571518336 BertuzziLW1, 950.000681426408 BlakeD5 ,000,0007192231-19CampbellD7, 142.00083854628 CarterC5, 000.000822924536 CommodoreD3 ,750,0006731114-7CookeLW1, 200.000781013231 DemitraLW4, 000.000681539549 EhrhoffD3, 100.00077121229 FedorovC4, 000.00068113041 — 5FedotenkoRW2 ,250,00067161733-9FingerD3, 500.000728111912 FooteD3, 000.00075115162 GaustadC2 ,300,00082102636-4GorgesD1, 500.000620990 GreenD5, 250.000821838566 HagmanLW3, 000.000822714414 HainseyD4 ,500,0007882432-7HolikC2 ,500,00082151934-14HossaRW7, 450.00072293766 — 14HuseliusLW4, free 750.0008125416610 Jones 2008, M.D550 ,00045022-13Jones, R.D2, 750.00071526318 KalininD2 ,100,00046178-7KostitsynLW3, 750.0007826275315 LaichC2 ,033,33382211637-3LaraqueRW1, 500.0007149130 LilesD4, 200.00081626322 MaloneRW4, 500, 0007727245114MaraD1, 950.00061116171 MiettinenRW2, 333.333691519344 MorrisonC2 ,750,0003991625-3NaslundLW4 ,000,00082253055-7NolanRW2, 750.000771616326 OrpikD3, 750.000781101111 PerryRW5, 320.0007029255412 RecchiRW1 ,250,00072143448-18ReddenD6, 500.000806323811 RolstonLW5 ,062,50081312859-1RyderRW4, 000.00070141731-4SalvadorD2, 900.000641101112 SatanRW3 ,500,00080162541-11SmithD2 ,600,000771910-4StajanC1 ,750,00082161733-11StreitD4 ,100,00081134962-6StuartD3, 750.000824482 TuckerRW2 ,250,00074181634-8VrbataRW3, 000.000762729566 WalkerD600, 00,043,112 — 3WeightC4, 300.000671015254 WittD3 ,000,00059257-8WolskiLW2, 800.0007718304810 Number of NHL Agents         GPGAP of              gained from the list of the * This www.hockeybuzz.com     not include all the free agents for various reasons            SlopeÂ-56272.1261283.9980900.5849416.2240876.22Intercept   695754.072591953.281648200.631695907.733347784.14R-Squared 0.160.150.38 0.350.06
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