When is revenue sharing not actually revenue sharing? When you don’t call it that. Next up in our CBA drill-down is the NHL’s revenue sharing plan, for lack of a better term.
Let’s take a gander into Article 49: Player Compensation Cost Redistribution System.
What is this?
The purpose of the system is explained in a weirdly long preamble – this is one of only a handful of CBA articles with a preamble – explaining that they want to basically make sure all league clubs can meet their player compensation obligations:
The Player Compensation Cost Redistribution System acknowledges the reality that the Upper Limit of the Payroll Range prevents certain high-revenue Clubs from spending as much of their revenues toward Player Compensation (i.