He wanted a fresh power trip after the entire state of Virginia united to yeet his attempt to steal money for a new stadium. As a resident of the state, let me assure you this is actually an impressive achievement, roughly equivalent to Pens and Flyers fans coming together on something. As for this, though, I hope he has to sell it back after getting arrested for a stupid crime...like securities fraud...
@@gingerhater97 shows the linups of each team. Basically before each day of games they update all the teams with their current rosters that will play that night, and also which line everyone is on. It helped a lot with fantasy hockey and also like prize picks 😭
This is a major "I'm taking the ball and I'm going home" moment from the Capitals. It's just so petty and childish that I can't even find it in me to be mad, I'm just confused...
As a caps fan I just don’t understand it at all. Leonsis is starting to get on thin ice especially after he threatened to move to team to VA just to only keep them in DC and make more money. CapFriendly purchase is just making his pockets bigger and in turn trolling the league. On top of that, I loved using CapFriendly so in some sense he screwed over caps fans themselves. At the end of the day tho it doesn’t really impact the team on the ice so whatever I guess…
Vegas is scummy, but they're not doing anything wrong, per se. Sort of like save scumming in an RPG. Washington, on the other hand? What a stupid move. Screws over a ton of people to get a little extra money. Went from a team that I respected to my bottom five.
@@frederickglass1583the irony is,Vegas didn't get sports teams for so long, precisely because,being known for gambling. Now,we have betting companies bombarding us with ads when we watch games
All this means is someone will be able to provide a similar or superior service to fill in the void. Supply went down but the demand is the exact same.
It's wild to me that a league notorious for a lack of transparency and a lack of engagement with new fans thinks even less transparency is the way to go. The on ice product is the best it has been in a long time, but the off ice drama combined with outrageous ticket prices and garbage national coverage make me as unexcited about the NHL as I was when I first stopped watching a decade ago. I'll just stick to trying to see every minor league team I can at this point. Better experience and much less expensive.
@@jman660212 Yeah,but Bettman will either look the other way,or have his back,since the Caps are one of his favorites because of all the revenue and casual fans they've brought to the league
there will be other websites just like it im sure. i have no idea why they'd waste money buying this website when that just encourages 50 more exactly like it to pop up are they going to buy them all?
I don't know if teams use this a whole lot. I can't imagine they rely on a 3rd part site that requires no membership or anything to help make their salary cap decisions. Maybe use it as a quick glance but all this stuff can be done with excel formulas. I would be most teams already have an in house guy doing all this stuff. It does stuck for use fans not being able to use it though and shows how crappy the Caps management is if they need to buy some third party site to make sure they are "cap friendly", the cap has been around a lot longer than this site has.
Love the title. Years ago I was working with a high school football player at a McDonald's, when he arrived for his shift I informed him we were short handed as hell and it was just us for dinner and that the boss was this half wit chick, and he just replied "this is ass." Ever since I've had an affinity for it and have used it countless times. Thanks for reminding me of that dude, he was a trip.
I'd love to know the thought process behind the purchase. It'd be one thing if they kept it up and operational and bought it out for, you know, business things, but since they're not doing that the only logical conclusion is that the purchase was motivated by a desire to be those people🙃
I'd imagine that behind the salary cap stuff on the front end, the team might have also been collecting and categorising plenty of other metrics and statistics, and may have been looking for a buyer for a while.
This is the first I'm hearing it, and I first thought "Maybe they're just buying the URL, not the website..." Yeah no, they're buying it all. As a Caps fan, I offer my sincerest apologies for this stupidity. If any professional org should have bought this, it should have been the NHL, not an individual team.
as I said somewhere else: only way Caps can be more hated now is to hire Babcock so he can bench Ovi for the rest of his career 1 point shy of the record
I'm happy for the CapFriendly guys who got a well deserved payday for their work, but it does suck for fans as a whole. I know there are other similar tools, but there is a reason that Capfriendly is the default for everyone, including NHL front offices.
The NHL has always hated that inside information was accessible to the public. I'm sure they are delighted CapFriendly will go dark. But no matter, demand is there and someone else will build another version. I'm sure NHL GMs and other insiders will no longer cooperate with CapFriendly so it's usefulness will be short term at best. Good for the CapFriendly guys to cash out...and probably be back with a new site in a few years.
perhaps they bought it so they can change the name. "CAP" Friendly might infer a reference to the capitals, and so they might just want the domain name so they can keep all "cap" related domains for their use. of course, i'm just an average joe. what do i know?
So basically the Caps bought a programming system?😂 If I'm understanding, some teams had agreement's to use it but now cant. Either that, or the Caps bought it cause they wanted to know how much cap space they had,not knowing it was free to look at 😂
I can't stand Leonsis. But that's personal from living in DC at one point. I still like Spotrac, but it may be time to throw my hat into the ring and create my own site doing the same...
Why did the capitals purchase this and not the owner of the team? I don’t know how it all works but I hope they aren’t using fan revenue to purchase this website
Whoever owned the site must have just made so much money. It’d be a shame if someone got their hands on the website APIs and started another exact mimic website with the same UI…
Didnt know about this till I watched your video. This just feels like a useless move by the Caps and im kinda disappointed. I especially loved to the see all the trades listed there in great detail.
