Trotz Won't Throw His Cap in Ring
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"We'd likely be buyers and we have the cap room, but we don't have a lot of flexibility in terms of budget," said [Barry Trotz], who has coached the Predators since they joined the NHL in 1998. "We don't spend what we don't have in Nashville. I don't know how many other teams are run like that, but we run our operation like a business."
"We got into the playoffs on the 81st game of last season, and if we get in this year, it'll be the same way," said Trotz, who has guided his club to the playoffs the last four seasons in a row. "We're used to this, the sense of reality of fighting for a playoff spot. We're under 20 games to play now and it's a fun time of year.""We're at the floor of the cap. We've deleted 10 players in the last couple of seasons due to economics and replaced just one of those players from the outside, and that's with a young guy like Ryan Jones, who is just a rookie trying to break in," Trotz said. "Our hockey people have done a great job at drafting and we've brought our young players along."See the full content of this document
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Trotz Won't Throw His Cap in Ring
Preds $17 million under it, but 'we don't spend what we don't have'
DESPITE having close to $17 million in cap space, Nashville Predators coach Barry Trotz doesn't ...See the full content of this document
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