Trade skills? Y'all were blowing all of your 1st round picks on nonfactor players every damn year at the TDL. 1st for Chiarot sure paid off.
Tage, can you detail how you came up with the 4M? My estimate would be less than $1M. Certainly something, but no where close to what your number is.
I gave you an answer as to how they built their core with drafted players. You didn’t like the answer. I don’t know what to say other than state income taxes not being present in Florida wasn’t a problem until Tampa and Florida started winning, so why is it a problem now?
A. he's a Lightning fan, so his team had nothing to do with Shitrot,
They don’t really care about any of that, they just really love telling that story.
Tampa too. How do you think you got Kucherov, Stamkos, Point? Taxes was what made the McDonagh and Sergachev deals possible. Didn’t you know???
you think a 40 goal scoring 1st line 4n playing SC winning Selke nominee re-signs for 8.6 in Toronto in 2025?
you think a 40 goal scoring 1st line 4n playing SC winning Selke nominee re-signs for 8.6 in Toronto in 2025?
Day 2 of waiting for you to come with an example of someone who signed for under market value?
That’s an interesting perspective. You can argue the only reason teams such as the Panthers exist in the first place is due to being subsidized by northern markets. The flaw with NHL’s and Bettman’s growth system is that he assumes those markets will somehow catch up to the Northern and Canadians ones by winning, when it will never happen. Imagine how much more views would the final get if it was Edmonton vs Toronto. Triple the amounts.
He signed right after winning the Cup with them. Its also feasible to sign to try and keep your core together. He's also paid $11 Million this past year and $10 Million the next year. Later on in the contract he took a lesser salary bonus to bring down the AAV. I am sorry that your team attracts "Player First" type of players instead of team first players... but that shouldnt be a knock on Florida.
Yeah, Americans definitely never complain about anything. No whining in that culture at all lol.
Exactly, they're not doing anything special. What we are saying is we do not get why you think they are. Its not drastically better than the dominant franchises that just came before. Teams rebuild hard, add great draft talent and if they build enough 4-5 star talent through that, good trades, rarely but maybe a key ufa, they then become repetitive contenders for around 5 years, 7-12 years after that key draft.
