Brad Boyes: Bob Goodenow

Bob Goodenow: I can still hear Bob Goodenow saying, This is whats going to happen when you accept a salary cap your buddies arent going to have jobs, Cammalleri said. And sure enough, here we are, and this is exactly the world we re living in under the cap system, according to The Star. Less than two weeks until the opening of training camps, plenty of men who fit the description have yet to find NHL jobs, among them Brenden Morrow, Dan Cleary, Ron Hainsey, Simon Gagne, Brad Boyes, Damien Brunner and David Steckel. In a previous decade all of the above would have likely lived out their playing days as fully employed greybeards, and certainly all of them may find a dressing-room stall with their name on it soon enough. Still, with the salary cap shrinking from about $72 million to $64 million for the upcoming campaign, many teams with budget concerns appear more inclined to forego the premium salaries of experienced hands to take a chance on younger, cheaper options and Surveying the NHL landscape in the waning days of summer, Mike Cammalleri was invoking a voice from hockeys past. Goodenow, of course, was the head of the NHL Players Association around the time that the union lost both the 2004-05 season and the battle to beat back the much-dreaded cap. And though we re nearly one decade and two collective bargaining agreements into life under a payroll ceiling, Goodenows cautionary words seem particularly poignant to a certain kind of pro specifically, the veteran role player. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.