About four years ago, in the doldrums of summer, I was looking for a project idea. It was partly out of necessity, partly out of not wanting to atrophy at my desk during the NHL offseason. A man can only update his Facebook status so many times.
So I had this ambitious idea while planted at my NHL.com cubicle—what if 30 of us got together one day and redrafted the entire league and then we simulated that season? Thirty people, thirty teams, everyone is available.
The one caveat—all NHL players would keep their contracts, so you’d have to take the cap hit with the player and fit it all under the salary cap. When would certain players be drafted if their contract was part of the deal?
The one problem—getting every NHL player’s current cap hit in list form so it could be sorted from most to least or least to most.
CapGeek was available to the world at this time, but there was nothing that let you sort every existing contract. Without that, doing a draft that was this complicated would be at best tedious and at worst impossible.
I emailed Matthew Wu ...
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