This season's payrolls aren't finalized, as a trade can change the numbers (look at Washington for example, their payroll is much different now than at beginning of year), so decided to use last year's stats. And my little "blurb" wasn't useless, the question was neither fact nor opinion based, it was just a question, and stats can be proven quantitatively, while opinion is just that, an opinion, and as the saying goes, "Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one"
And I pointed out something simple like goals per game not because I doubted you knew it, but because you said "As for the way you ended at the Sens being the most offensive team I don't get how you ended up there."
As for your last question, I played a bit when I was younger, stopped at about age 10, and play in a beer league nowadays, so I have a tiny bit of experience, not very much though. I don't see how it is relevent anyways, participating in something does not necessarily make one an expert (eg I could do a couple stock trades over the internet, that does not make me a stock market guru
).