Teams should still have some protection.
To me, it's not fair that teams should have to possibly stay way under the cap (not by choice, but by fear of the repercussions) because the cap might drop $10 million and they would be screwed if they were at the ceiling and that happened.
So basically, the way I look at it is, we can't keep long-term contracts and be at the cap limit for the next couple of seasons, because if we are then it will severely damage our franchise. But if we are not signing those long-term deals and staying at the top of the Cap Limit , then maybe that is 2 years that we could have won a Stanley Cup, but didn't because of the possibility of the $10 million cap drop.
Teams need protection.