It’s a shame about CapFriendly. Washington buys it so no other team can have access but that will be a minor inconvenience for most teams as they create their own database, but the fans lose a great resource forever.
@@eaglesdude25 You're right that it makes absolutely no sense, and I don't think he was arguing that that is the reason. It's a complete mystery; I don't understand what's going on.
I mean the fans lose the resource until fans (or just the people that originally made capfriendly) go out and make it again. I think this is super common in tech.
Buying a salary cap tool to kill access is the kind of thing a lot of sports journalists and fans are going to take personally. First question at next press conference by the Washington Capitals should be: "Are you worried that extending Ovechkin's contract for 27 years at $25 million a season will hurt your ability to compete? Yeah, I tried to look it up but the site wasn't available, so these are the questions you're getting from now on."
everyone on the caps is too busy watching Ovechkin to actually do anything else. Front office, team, coaches, players, doctors, sales, programming, research, etc. No time to build a data base.
Yes. AI will be able to do all this for $49. a year. That’s likely why they sold. Old billionaires have no clue about current technology. But there’s more to this story. I suspect the NHL itself is behind this somehow. Losers.
Dude, if you open with "The Washington Capitals are buying CapFriendly", that just makes the rest of us think "Did the TH-cam algorithm bump me into a THG April Fools video???"
What a weird decision. Instead of working along side capfriendly they just outright buy it?? Idk if I have ever seen this across the major 4 leagues, like imagine if the Cowboys bought PFF or the Lakers bought Basketball Reference. The worst part to is that this will likely have a minimal effect on other teams but be massive blow to NHL fans.
I just don't get why would Capitals want to buy capfriendly? Are they amateurs and can't calculate their own cap space? Do they think all other teams are amateurs and can't calculate their own cap space? Or is it just to shut us, fans, out? I can't see the reasoning behind it.
@@hudsonathas164Other teams are usually able to calculate things themselves, although it is certainly easier to just pay someone else to do it. I mean it’s always been true that Leonsis doesn’t care about the fans (that idea to move to Alexandria is an obvious example of this, that’s an awful move for trying to make fans happy)
This is a franchise that traded rookie Filip Forsberg for the shell of Martin Erat as a rental, so ... yeah, not terribly surprising. Nationals are considered among the least analytical in baseball; Wizards got their most attention in the last 20 years with Jordan's second comeback and off-court scandals; and then there's the Football Team.😬😬😬
i've know of capfriendly when the 2 guys who ran the whole thing for habs fans. then it evolved in a NHL fan favorite into a now NHL GM favorite. the site is still in both language. they didn't make much money running the site for years since it wasn't the purpose to begin with, it was their own project, but they outgrew themselves and everyone could understand the cap situation for their team. one of the owners then left in recent years than they hired new people but it is still a inhouse site ran from a habs fan. end of a era, the capfriendly era. godspeed
I hate the owner of capfriendly more I think. He’s selling it knowing that will happen, but I guess good for him for getting the bag? It was a great resource for fans
@@judistzoinkiski3395blame a guy who worked hard to create something for getting a payday for thing he worked hard to create? That’s a weird angle. I can’t blame someone for cashing in. I CAN, however, blame the Caps for a puzzling move
@@judistzoinkiski3395 This was probably a once in a lifetime offer for them. Can't really blame them they take that. For some of them it's probably a lifechanging sum of money.
I can't stand it after the merge, they made the transactions list worse and the site worse. It used to be my main way of checking injuries and call ups before games
@@anubisgod23 they're gonna shut down CapFriendly. Thousands of hockey fans use that site, including me. It's the best site for looking at our teams contracts and salary situation.
I love that a random joe can build a website, do some math, read the CBA, and build enough cred that a multi-million dollar sports franchise could decide "this guy is bright enough that it'd be worth buying out his website just for his services". Its crazy that it's happened not once but twice since i've followed the NHL (General fanager and now capfriendly). But these guys are doing the NHL's job for them. Helping fans get into the game. Why tf doesn't the NHL do this in-house? not a league.
Hey Shannon, it can’t hurt to have your hip checked out. Mine bothered me forever(hence the screen name) and when I finally had it looked at by a specialist, I needed a total replacement. I feel great now that it’s all fixed up, and the recovery is behind me. There’s treatment, and therapy you can do to reduce the pain before it gets to that point. No need to suffer. Hope you’re feeling better, and none of this advice is necessary to begin with. Also, thanks for pointing us to Puckpedia. I had not used it before. Good to know I still have a place to see what scary salary cap shape my Rangers, and Golden Knights are in.
Well it’s a good site, and I guess they like the tools it has. Maybe they think other teams are using it too and them taking it would prevent that. Idk but it’s very strange considering all these teams surely have the money to hire someone to build their own websites to manage and view their cap situations
I don't understand the CapFriendly purchase. I could understand them buying it and running it for themselves, I don't get what CapFriendly has that Washington lacks....
Caps fan here: This is the most ashamed I’ve been of the Caps since the Martin Erat trade Edit: I understand the Caps hate for obvious reasons for this but I still love you all 😂
NHL buying to wouldn't change anything fans wise, they would make it exclusive to NHL teams, they would basically force teams to pay for using it. Fans would still be shut out.
@@drizzt102 If it is like with Vegas, then this is less about the site itself and more regarding the franchise wanting to acquire the talent behind it (I.e. Washington wants the guy behind CapFriendly to be part of their brain trust and that is why this is happening). The site going dark becomes a casualty of the main person behind it no longer maintaining it publicly (because he has been hired away from doing that job).
The thing about Marchessault, it's not just as easy as wait til July 1 and see what's out there. You're on a very aggressive team and if your preference is to play there, there's a risk of them filling up your cap space.
No one expected the Caps to do good in the playoffs, it was the fact that they got there at all that was impressive, after missing the playoffs last year. This season may have helped them avoid years of mediocrity.
I'm curious now if someone tries to make a replacement site in the next couple years, if Washington will attempt to sue or file cease and desist orders claiming the calculators or tools they'd make are too similar to the CapFriendly ones which are now their proprietary property
If all the teams use the CapFriendly UI, and the Caps are buying it for exclusive use, is this something where Bettman can step in if it wasnt already cleared with the other owners?
watching dangles stream last night he kept saying some reason the oilers still have no goal, i kept thinking no the reason is they aren't raising the puck
Unrelated to any of the news in this video, I was thinking about the big stink about gambling in sports and how players get mixed signals about what is allowed with all the gambling ads being shown during their own games. Well since the Caps bought CapFriendly maybe Bettman should just go ahead and buy a sportsbook to muddy things even further since people already don't like him anyway. Their slogan will be "Just make a bet, man, here at Bettman".
As a Caps Fan, I hate this! Ted Leonsis has the worst/biggest ego of any NHL owner. This is a marketing ploy by him and they will rebrand it to suit their profit mongering. Leonsis projects like this usually fall apart at some point because he convolutes them with so much marketing crap!
i genuinely don't understand why the capitals would buy capfriendly. they should have their own inhouse analytics and trademark/copyright infringement is a gigantic leap to be making now, when the site's been around for years. legitimately baffling.
My understanding is they bought it so they can use it themselves. It's just we fans can't access it anymore. Weird move because if they want to monetize from it, fans wouldn't subscribe just for that especially when there are comparable sites out there. And if it's truly the team not having a better tool, I'm just baffled as of how a decent size franchise doesn't have a cap analytics tool for them to build team. And trust me when I say it's weird because I'm a Caps fan.
@@jkliao6486 idk if you read RMNB but one of their articles said that most NHL teams didn't have an internal system, and relied mostly on cap friendly. Ofc, the source was Friedman, who has never been the most reliable.
Man, losing cap friendly is a massive loss! Such a great website for information and the forum community there is very good as well. Hopefully we see something else take it’s place
This is my question. It's a helpful resource, but it's not like the website reinvented the wheel or cracked some secret method for acquiring information. It's just a very effective aggregator of individual pieces of useful info that any NHL team undoubtedly has access to through various other less convenient means. If the Caps just liked the coding/layout/whatever, why not just cut a deal with the people who run the website and pay them (presumably) much less to build you a private version rather than buy the whole company running the public one? Kind of strange.
????? Caps no, please. Actually, i am drawing a blank so a question for commenters - wasn't there a different website like CapFriendly bought before and shut down? Maybe it was NBA, total blank in my memory.
I hope ovi doesn’t break the record anymore after seeing his lazy play this year especially and with the caps are fine with it. He didn’t even want to be in the playoffs and the effort showed it. That’s their captain. They’re just gonna wheel him out until he scores enough empty netters to force it and that makes it feel meaningless. Now they buy capfriendly because I suppose gimmicks that disrespect the fans are easier than running a franchise with integrity.
Weird move by the Caps. I'm not seeing any potential for future paid subscription opportunities to monetize from it, and I refuse to believe a decent nhl franchise doesn't have a similar analytics tool themselves. But then what do I know, after all, I'm just a pleb Caps fan who's still using pirate streaming sites to follow games.
@@TheHockeyGuy I guess they couldn’t but I would imagine someone at the nhl would at least strongly suggest to the caps that they don’t since it’s a great way to keep fans engaged with their teams
I'm trying to make the capfriendly purchase make sense. The service is easily duplicated by existing companies. There's also plenty of time between now and July for those teams affected to compile the info they need. So, really, no real advantage to the Caps. To make it go dark likely means they want the infrastructure. Although they say it's the Caps, it's really Monumental Sports that would be making the purchase. They own 4 sports franchises, including perennial cellar dwellers, the Wizards. So maybe they're shoring up an organizational weakness or making it so they don't have to outsource. The Wizards have the number two pick in the draft this year. Perhaps this is a move to support a more than in name only effort to build a real basketball team in Washington. Capfriendly has a basketball site, too, which I'm assuming is part of the deal. Maybe they're looking to compete in baseball and football as well. There's an advantage here we don't see. But given the Caps steady and just barely self admitted approach to rebuilding/retooling, there's a pretty good chance it involves more than just hockey.
I found an armchair GM site for those who will miss that aspect of Capfriendly. It's called NHL Armchair GM It's a little clunky compared to CF but I suppose it will have to get me though. The Capitals are now my 3rd most hated team now behind Boston and Toronto
Don't be silly, July 1st is so many fruit fly lifetimes away, just sign now players. Thank you for your daily news, you are a true legend in the hockey community, whether the NHL knows it or not!
@@mr.brenman2132 Why? Because the fans of the league use it as a tool to better understand the finances of their favourite teams, and as we have seen on many occasions so do many team employees. The entire reason why the Caps are buying it. How I unfortunately don't know and is why I said hope. But it wouldn't shock me if there was a fringe argument somewhere within the CBA or the NHL constitution for it.
@@Skynertia Unfortunately for us and fortunately for them that don't have to care about that. They only have to care about improving their franchise through any means necessary.
People don't realize they don't deserve a lot of things when they thought otherwise. It's just part of the business and unfortunately, this time around, it sucks big for us fans. But I'd imagine it's not a first and certainly wouldn't be last in hockey history, or anything for that matter that is related to business. At the end of the day, money talks and that's it.
It’s a shame about CapFriendly.
Washington buys it so no other team can have access but that will be a minor inconvenience for most teams as they create their own database, but the fans lose a great resource forever.
Is that seriously why they’re doing it? They don’t think NHL teams are capable of managing the cap without it? Im sorry but that is absurdly stupid.
Agree it's a very strange move
Not sure what business rational should be to shut down a fan goodie
@@eaglesdude25 You're right that it makes absolutely no sense, and I don't think he was arguing that that is the reason. It's a complete mystery; I don't understand what's going on.
they all have there own data bases sucks for fans
I mean the fans lose the resource until fans (or just the people that originally made capfriendly) go out and make it again. I think this is super common in tech.
Buying a salary cap tool to kill access is the kind of thing a lot of sports journalists and fans are going to take personally. First question at next press conference by the Washington Capitals should be: "Are you worried that extending Ovechkin's contract for 27 years at $25 million a season will hurt your ability to compete? Yeah, I tried to look it up but the site wasn't available, so these are the questions you're getting from now on."
That's it, move the Caps to Quebec
*china
@@Nascarfan1896 North Sentinel Island
@@bartsanders1553 🤣🤣
Baffin Island
@@Nascarfan1896 Quebec is China East.
Im so baffled by the caps purchase of capfriendly, shouldnt they already have had a department dedicated to this since like who knows when?
everyone on the caps is too busy watching Ovechkin to actually do anything else. Front office, team, coaches, players, doctors, sales, programming, research, etc. No time to build a data base.
Yes. AI will be able to do all this for $49. a year.
That’s likely why they sold.
Old billionaires have no clue about current technology. But there’s more to this story.
I suspect the NHL itself is behind this somehow.
Losers.
Rip capfriendly
Rip competitive market
Went down just like NHL Numbers. Nothing lasts forever.😢
Yeah the Caps really need those tools when their only purpose for the next few years is Ovi’s record chase
The loss of capfriendly is a blow to transparency in the NHL, which was already terribly low.
Dude, if you open with "The Washington Capitals are buying CapFriendly", that just makes the rest of us think "Did the TH-cam algorithm bump me into a THG April Fools video???"
I had the same thought
It's cartoonishly stupid on the team's part. Just means the internet will shift over to the other site and continue as normal.
Odd, the Caps are not friendly with CapFriendly
What a weird decision. Instead of working along side capfriendly they just outright buy it?? Idk if I have ever seen this across the major 4 leagues, like imagine if the Cowboys bought PFF or the Lakers bought Basketball Reference. The worst part to is that this will likely have a minimal effect on other teams but be massive blow to NHL fans.
Exactly. It makes no sense. Washington can't track the cap on their own?
I think the NFL teams contribute monetarily to PFF.
they're taking the resource from every other team
This has happened before with capgeek lol
@DJFlozone every team would have a database anyway, this barely affects the teams, but negatively impacts fans
I guess capfriendly will be Cap Friendly
Ha... Ha...
i laughed way too hard
Dadum-bum- Ching 🥁
😊
CapsFriendly.
Damn, Caps really want to be the new league villain huh?
It's their owner. Ted Leonsis was one of the architects to AOL dial-up, and boy was that company full of marketing garbage!
Trickle down from corporate level.
Worked for Vegas
I just don't get why would Capitals want to buy capfriendly? Are they amateurs and can't calculate their own cap space? Do they think all other teams are amateurs and can't calculate their own cap space? Or is it just to shut us, fans, out? I can't see the reasoning behind it.
Other teams pay for capfriendlys services and help especially small market teams. Now just the caps can use it and all the information it has
@@hudsonathas164Other teams are usually able to calculate things themselves, although it is certainly easier to just pay someone else to do it.
I mean it’s always been true that Leonsis doesn’t care about the fans (that idea to move to Alexandria is an obvious example of this, that’s an awful move for trying to make fans happy)
@@hudsonathas164 I feel like a team spending 80 million dollars on players every year could hire 2-3 employees to make their own database
Money
This is a franchise that traded rookie Filip Forsberg for the shell of Martin Erat as a rental, so ... yeah, not terribly surprising. Nationals are considered among the least analytical in baseball; Wizards got their most attention in the last 20 years with Jordan's second comeback and off-court scandals; and then there's the Football Team.😬😬😬
i've know of capfriendly when the 2 guys who ran the whole thing for habs fans. then it evolved in a NHL fan favorite into a now NHL GM favorite. the site is still in both language.
they didn't make much money running the site for years since it wasn't the purpose to begin with, it was their own project, but they outgrew themselves and everyone could understand the cap situation for their team. one of the owners then left in recent years than they hired new people but it is still a inhouse site ran from a habs fan.
end of a era, the capfriendly era. godspeed
Why is Washington doing that? That seems so random? I guess I hate Washington now.
Yeah, I hope Ovi doesn't pass Gretzky now.
@@bartsanders1553been hoping that for years, welcome to the club.
If I had to guess, they call themselves "the caps" this site is cap friendly. Maybe the capitals want this site gone to avoid confusion.
Yep
I hate the owner of capfriendly more I think. He’s selling it knowing that will happen, but I guess good for him for getting the bag? It was a great resource for fans
I will now and forever celebrate every Capitals loss, what losers.
Take it out on their owner and not the team itself. In my opinion it's kind of short sided to think of the Caps that way.
How about blaming cap friendly they sold it.
@@judistzoinkiski3395blame a guy who worked hard to create something for getting a payday for thing he worked hard to create? That’s a weird angle. I can’t blame someone for cashing in. I CAN, however, blame the Caps for a puzzling move
@@judistzoinkiski3395 and to whom did they sell it, genius???
@@judistzoinkiski3395 This was probably a once in a lifetime offer for them. Can't really blame them they take that. For some of them it's probably a lifechanging sum of money.
That's truely awful news for every hockey fan RIP Capfriendly
PuckPedia will need serious server ppgrade...VERY SLOW this afternoon.
I can't stand it after the merge, they made the transactions list worse and the site worse. It used to be my main way of checking injuries and call ups before games
the Capitals have just sank from top 10 favorite team to bottom 5. I genuinely hate them now.
Never liked them, the team is only old bitter players and the management too
Lol why
@@anubisgod23 they're gonna shut down CapFriendly. Thousands of hockey fans use that site, including me. It's the best site for looking at our teams contracts and salary situation.
I still support the team
I will be buying the Capitals organization and relocating them to Arizona!
trade ovi to pittsburgh then.
Capitals owner saw a realistic Armchair GM trade involving Ovi and decided to shut it down.
Paul Maurice’s son Jack Maurice is the Everblades’ play by play broadcaster
Wow!
Flames are trying to "quietly" trade Markström. Well it's not very quiet anymore is it 🤣
I love that a random joe can build a website, do some math, read the CBA, and build enough cred that a multi-million dollar sports franchise could decide "this guy is bright enough that it'd be worth buying out his website just for his services". Its crazy that it's happened not once but twice since i've followed the NHL (General fanager and now capfriendly). But these guys are doing the NHL's job for them. Helping fans get into the game. Why tf doesn't the NHL do this in-house? not a league.
Man screw the caps
Hey Shannon, it can’t hurt to have your hip checked out. Mine bothered me forever(hence the screen name) and when I finally had it looked at by a specialist, I needed a total replacement. I feel great now that it’s all fixed up, and the recovery is behind me. There’s treatment, and therapy you can do to reduce the pain before it gets to that point. No need to suffer. Hope you’re feeling better, and none of this advice is necessary to begin with. Also, thanks for pointing us to Puckpedia. I had not used it before. Good to know I still have a place to see what scary salary cap shape my Rangers, and Golden Knights are in.
If Heshey chokes against Cleveland I demand a UT video.
why???? why would a team do that with capfriendly? a single reason?
Well it’s a good site, and I guess they like the tools it has. Maybe they think other teams are using it too and them taking it would prevent that. Idk but it’s very strange considering all these teams surely have the money to hire someone to build their own websites to manage and view their cap situations
@@NathanLipetz Who has a better resume for the job than the folks who already did it
@@nyern big true. And I suspect they keep some staff on it to keep it maintained
Most teams only use cap friendly as their infrastructure. Plus with the company they get employees with tons of knowledge on the topic.
I don't understand the CapFriendly purchase. I could understand them buying it and running it for themselves, I don't get what CapFriendly has that Washington lacks....
So shitty how Washington bought cap friendly
Well, the caps just become the most hated franchise in the league. Life is good
No one is hated more than Vegas
@@anubisgod23 only casual hockey fans hate vegas that much.
@@shinyuta only casual hockey fans like Vegas
Caps fan here: This is the most ashamed I’ve been of the Caps since the Martin Erat trade
Edit: I understand the Caps hate for obvious reasons for this but I still love you all 😂
Hey. It aint your fault. But yea we hate the Caps now lol
The Erat trade was worse.
Why wouldn't the NHL buy Cap friendly??? Why wouldn't they prevent something like this from happening smh
NHL buying to wouldn't change anything fans wise, they would make it exclusive to NHL teams, they would basically force teams to pay for using it. Fans would still be shut out.
Capfriendly purchased by Washington Capitals....how is that legal?
That feels like its a conflict of interest type situation.
FTC: mmmm... nah.
Vegas did something similar with General Fanager back in 2016, when they brought Tom Poraszka into their organization.
@@Utred2012 well then fuck me i guess. Fair play is fair play. If its legal for one it should be legal for all
@@drizzt102 If it is like with Vegas, then this is less about the site itself and more regarding the franchise wanting to acquire the talent behind it (I.e. Washington wants the guy behind CapFriendly to be part of their brain trust and that is why this is happening). The site going dark becomes a casualty of the main person behind it no longer maintaining it publicly (because he has been hired away from doing that job).
@@drizzt102What do you mean by conflict of interest?
The thing about Marchessault, it's not just as easy as wait til July 1 and see what's out there. You're on a very aggressive team and if your preference is to play there, there's a risk of them filling up your cap space.
QUICK, EVERYONE! TIME TO CREATE A CAPFRIENDLY 2.0!
I have 3 tabs on my phone for cap-friendly 🤦♂️
What’s the point of the capitals buying it ?!
The name's going to be changed to CapsUnfriendly
CapFriendly becoming the new General Fanager.
Washington follows up that PATHETIC playoff performance with an equally DESPICABLE purchase. Just deport this team honestly
No one expected the Caps to do good in the playoffs, it was the fact that they got there at all that was impressive, after missing the playoffs last year. This season may have helped them avoid years of mediocrity.
Washington's general way of doing things at the corporate level is despicable and worse.
I’d rather the Washington Capitals went dark than CapFriendly.
That’s so cool that CV made the Calder cup final. I passed Acrisure Arena twice this past weekend and had no clue they made it back again
What are the caps going to do with cap friendly?
Shut it down.
Screw the Capitals
cough cough.... fuck rich people/companies
This 👍
I'm curious now if someone tries to make a replacement site in the next couple years, if Washington will attempt to sue or file cease and desist orders claiming the calculators or tools they'd make are too similar to the CapFriendly ones which are now their proprietary property
If all the teams use the CapFriendly UI, and the Caps are buying it for exclusive use, is this something where Bettman can step in if it wasnt already cleared with the other owners?
watching dangles stream last night he kept saying some reason the oilers still have no goal, i kept thinking no the reason is they aren't raising the puck
Unrelated to any of the news in this video, I was thinking about the big stink about gambling in sports and how players get mixed signals about what is allowed with all the gambling ads being shown during their own games. Well since the Caps bought CapFriendly maybe Bettman should just go ahead and buy a sportsbook to muddy things even further since people already don't like him anyway. Their slogan will be "Just make a bet, man, here at Bettman".
What's the point of a hockey franchise buying this besides being assholes and why are they even allowed too
It just doesn't make sense that they'd essentially kill Capfriendly only for the profit of the capitals. It's not like other teams have cap-ologists.
New villain? Shittington Crapitals?
Wouldn't surprise me if the Caps are buying the domain name for their community outreach/ team charities.
wtf i cant watch hockey if i dont know anyting about cap space or contracts
Just another reason to hate the Caps
As a Caps Fan, I hate this! Ted Leonsis has the worst/biggest ego of any NHL owner. This is a marketing ploy by him and they will rebrand it to suit their profit mongering. Leonsis projects like this usually fall apart at some point because he convolutes them with so much marketing crap!
Go Firebirds!!!
THG out day to day with a lower body injury.😂
Keep up the great work you do for your channel. But I would like to see more of you cat’s
i genuinely don't understand why the capitals would buy capfriendly. they should have their own inhouse analytics and trademark/copyright infringement is a gigantic leap to be making now, when the site's been around for years. legitimately baffling.
What is the point in buying something to shut it down????
My understanding is they bought it so they can use it themselves. It's just we fans can't access it anymore. Weird move because if they want to monetize from it, fans wouldn't subscribe just for that especially when there are comparable sites out there. And if it's truly the team not having a better tool, I'm just baffled as of how a decent size franchise doesn't have a cap analytics tool for them to build team. And trust me when I say it's weird because I'm a Caps fan.
@@jkliao6486 idk if you read RMNB but one of their articles said that most NHL teams didn't have an internal system, and relied mostly on cap friendly. Ofc, the source was Friedman, who has never been the most reliable.
Caps didn't want anyone seeing that Darcy Kuemper contract.
Man, losing cap friendly is a massive loss! Such a great website for information and the forum community there is very good as well. Hopefully we see something else take it’s place
Crazy how strong Bobrovsky has been with 5 hole saves. Used to be a major weakness when he was in Columbus
why would they buy it? can't anyone use it?
Marchessault just bought a house in Detroit per Agent Provocateur on SDPN
CapsFriendly now
My question is WHY? Like WHY? Not even mad per say but trying to figure out why the Caps want to purchase CapFriendly so bad.
This is my question. It's a helpful resource, but it's not like the website reinvented the wheel or cracked some secret method for acquiring information. It's just a very effective aggregator of individual pieces of useful info that any NHL team undoubtedly has access to through various other less convenient means. If the Caps just liked the coding/layout/whatever, why not just cut a deal with the people who run the website and pay them (presumably) much less to build you a private version rather than buy the whole company running the public one? Kind of strange.
1. They want to employ the owner/staff within the organization
2. They want to add another offering to the Monumental subscription package
????? Caps no, please.
Actually, i am drawing a blank so a question for commenters - wasn't there a different website like CapFriendly bought before and shut down? Maybe it was NBA, total blank in my memory.
General Fanager
I hope ovi doesn’t break the record anymore after seeing his lazy play this year especially and with the caps are fine with it. He didn’t even want to be in the playoffs and the effort showed it. That’s their captain.
They’re just gonna wheel him out until he scores enough empty netters to force it and that makes it feel meaningless.
Now they buy capfriendly because I suppose gimmicks that disrespect the fans are easier than running a franchise with integrity.
Weird move by the Caps. I'm not seeing any potential for future paid subscription opportunities to monetize from it, and I refuse to believe a decent nhl franchise doesn't have a similar analytics tool themselves. But then what do I know, after all, I'm just a pleb Caps fan who's still using pirate streaming sites to follow games.
The nhl allowing that sale is really shooting themselves in the foot for fans. Makes no sense
How could the NHL stop the sale and why?
Buddy... The NHL doesn't own CapFriendly
@@TheHockeyGuy I guess they couldn’t but I would imagine someone at the nhl would at least strongly suggest to the caps that they don’t since it’s a great way to keep fans engaged with their teams
@@nolananderson4782obviously
@@nolananderson4782thank you captain obvious
Do we call it CapsFriendly from here on?
Caps fan enjoying your introduction to Washington pro sports owner shenanigans LMAO
As if I didn't need more reasons to dislike the Crapitals
#SaveCapFriendly
I'm trying to make the capfriendly purchase make sense. The service is easily duplicated by existing companies. There's also plenty of time between now and July for those teams affected to compile the info they need. So, really, no real advantage to the Caps. To make it go dark likely means they want the infrastructure. Although they say it's the Caps, it's really Monumental Sports that would be making the purchase. They own 4 sports franchises, including perennial cellar dwellers, the Wizards. So maybe they're shoring up an organizational weakness or making it so they don't have to outsource. The Wizards have the number two pick in the draft this year. Perhaps this is a move to support a more than in name only effort to build a real basketball team in Washington. Capfriendly has a basketball site, too, which I'm assuming is part of the deal. Maybe they're looking to compete in baseball and football as well. There's an advantage here we don't see. But given the Caps steady and just barely self admitted approach to rebuilding/retooling, there's a pretty good chance it involves more than just hockey.
Why would caps do that? What benefits do they get ? Why would the nhl let that happen ? I see the nhl buying capfriendly as a assett for the league
I don’t get it. Couldn’t they already use cap friendly without paying for it?
Are they just trying to take the other 31 GMs out of that resource ?
I guess all trade talks with Washington are officially cancelled for the foreseeable future.
They’re just trying to take it away from everyone else
I not angry at cap friendly money is money but caps is such an dumb move.
What do the Caps get out this?
Cap(ital) circumvention
shitty PR.
A competitive advantage
@@vedantbhalla2571 how so? do you think other teams won’t just develop another tool that does the same thing?
@@doaftheloaf It's a little bit harder than it seems. There's no service out there that is truly as good as CF was.
I don't get it.
Those everblades jerseys are really nice tbh
Welp, the caps are now my most hated franchise, sorry Ovi.
I bet it will be rebranded as a product included with the MSE subscription
Sounds about right. Just more Ted Leonsis trash!
First 2 games went to OT so Cleveland has played Hershey tough but its asking alot to win 4 in a row.
as a caps fan im a bit confused like why do we of all teams need it. i thought it was just some fan run thing
Need to get ya a SC Stingrays from the ECHL... They are sweet
I found an armchair GM site for those who will miss that aspect of Capfriendly.
It's called NHL Armchair GM
It's a little clunky compared to CF but I suppose it will have to get me though.
The Capitals are now my 3rd most hated team now behind Boston and Toronto
A shame. I will have to get another resource then. Maybe PredFriendly?
Don't be silly, July 1st is so many fruit fly lifetimes away, just sign now players.
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Oh no, CapFriendly was my preferred resource for the contractual data. Well that sucks! Need to speed up my hockey card data acquisition. 🧡💛🧡
So how will we look at salary caps?
No Everblades jersey??? My guy, we need to fix that!!!
If CapFriendly goes dark the Capitals going to become my most hated team...
Really hope the league tries to step in and block the sale
Why and how would they block the sale? They have no control over which websites a team can buy.
@@mr.brenman2132 Why? Because the fans of the league use it as a tool to better understand the finances of their favourite teams, and as we have seen on many occasions so do many team employees. The entire reason why the Caps are buying it.
How I unfortunately don't know and is why I said hope. But it wouldn't shock me if there was a fringe argument somewhere within the CBA or the NHL constitution for it.
@@Skynertia Unfortunately for us and fortunately for them that don't have to care about that. They only have to care about improving their franchise through any means necessary.
People don't realize they don't deserve a lot of things when they thought otherwise. It's just part of the business and unfortunately, this time around, it sucks big for us fans. But I'd imagine it's not a first and certainly wouldn't be last in hockey history, or anything for that matter that is related to business. At the end of the day, money talks and that's it.
@@Skynertia I highly doubt there's anything in the CBA about teams purchasing 3rd party websites
Pox on Washington.
Rename to Washington CapEnemies
Why in the world would the Caps do this? Maybe he figures he can stop Vegas from cheating the LTIR?
What is cap friendly?
It's an online database that kept track of all the contracts a team had and how much they were spending.