Over the off-season, we will be putting focus on some of the invaluable resources we reference throughout the year. As the free agent frenzy came and went, and with the dust settling on team composition, there is no more fitting site to focus on than CapFriendly.
With the advent of of the salary cap in the National Hockey League in 2004 to help restore parity after escalating player salaries, there came a secondary market, unaffiliated with the NHL, of salary-tracking web services. Their complexity grew from simple static spreadsheets to fully dynamic databases with multiple features, views, and options.