Is Don K-Lowe In Disguise?

Tom Benjamin, noted hater of all things NHL, thinks Don's projections are 'ridiculous':

I think the claim being made by BoO is ridiculous but I'm not going to challenge it either. I don't care. If Don wants to believe we'd have a $100 MM payroll by now under the old CBA, fine by me.

Tom can love the old CBA all he wants and hate the new one with the passion of 1000 burning suns but it doesn't change the fact that those teams were pushing $80M in payroll and would have had no incentive to curb their spending. The Rangers, for one, have shown that when they can they'll dish out ridiculous amounts of cash.