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You can't have a Don Quixote without a Sancho Panza.
Mikko does need to protect the rest of the NHL (including MacK himself) from MacK during his...outbursts...
You can't have a Don Quixote without a Sancho Panza.
Lol that's Landy's job. Pushing him off the bench hahaMikko does need to protect the rest of the NHL (including MacK himself) from MacK during his...outbursts...
Lol that's Landy's job. Pushing him off the bench haha
Seriously. So stupid. People here acting like they gotta pay itI don't know why people give a crap about bonus money or not. You're not actually paying the guy.
I don't know why people give a crap about bonus money or not. You're not actually paying the guy.
You're right, fuming mad that people on this site are so devoted to their craft of being arm chair GMs that they need to find importance in bonus money, or who signs a deal with no bonus money.It’s an interesting data point as salaries are team friendly and bonuses are player friendly. The bonus structure gives a hint at who held the power in the negotiations.
Feel free to ignore it if it makes you mad.
You're right, fuming mad that people on this site are so devoted to their craft of being arm chair GMs that they need to find importance in bonus money, or who signs a deal with no bonus money.
You're right, fuming mad that people on this site are so devoted to their craft of being arm chair GMs that they need to find importance in bonus money, or who signs a deal with no bonus money.
As I said we will wait a few years and we can discuss.
Now to address other things that some have mentioned like it’s complicated. It is literally what every company that operates in different regions does every year. Balance salaries based on cost of living difference. The same position does not make the same salary in Tulsa as it does in Los Angeles. That accounts for some of the differences in contracts. Unlike a normal company though this league has a salary cap...you can’t staff the same sized office in LA with the same money as Tulsa. It’s not a huge deal but this next negotiation isn’t likely to be about huge things...if it were it would have been reopened. Being complicated also doesn’t mean it’s not predictable (tax rates don’t change overnight they have substantial warning before going into effect for example) and unable to be addressed.
But as I said we will see in a few years so no point discussing it now. But I will say it’s not just media saying it and there is a reason the media is saying (someone is telling them).
They absolutely will as it’s already being talked about as one of the issue along with some revenues they believe should go in the pile.
But we won’t know for a few yet so no point arguing about it.
How is it an issue for the players? Makes no sense that the players would want reign in something that has led to the kind of contracts given out to Auston Matthews and Mitch Marner.
How is it an issue for the players? Makes no sense that the players would want reign in something that has led to the kind of contracts given out to Auston Matthews and Mitch Marner.
Except that the contracts you mention come at the expense of every other player on the Leafs.
It is really about equity amongst the players. Do you think that proven NHLers want guys coming out of their ELC's to be making that when it just means that the $'s aren't available for the other guys on the roster?
So they ask for a trade or they leave as free agents. The players like seeing salaries go up.
In the pre-cap world, players loves seeing salaries go up. Think of it like this, what % if players get to cash in like this coming out of their ELC? If you are the other 99%, and a guy like Muzzin or Barrie you basically have to leave to get paid what you're worth.
And Selanne also made 9.5 as his top aav what comes to hockey playersNot even close. Depending on the source, Räikkönen has made something like 250-300 million euros on his career. He got like 30-40 million euros or something per year during his prime Ferrari years. I think Häkkinen also made more per year, definitely if you account for inflation.
If you predicted that Kyle Connor of all people would be the last remaining RFA of significance, then you deserve a medal.
How is it an issue for the players? Makes no sense that the players would want reign in something that has led to the kind of contracts given out to Auston Matthews and Mitch Marner.
It’s an interesting data point as salaries are team friendly and bonuses are player friendly. The bonus structure gives a hint at who held the power in the negotiations.
Feel free to ignore it if it makes you mad.
Rantannen case is a bit different. he plays in a fairly low tax jurisdiction and is from Finland where the marginal rates are North of 50%. While i know little or nothing about Finnish tax law and how the salary or bonus might be taxed as a citizen or resident, he certainly does not have the same incentive as Matthews to have a lot of it as bonus to tax it in the homeland. In fact he may prefer a all salary structure if that means he only pays tax on it in Colorado.
Is this the phantom world you've created in your head that also says Aho is better than both Mathews and Marner?Everyone in the hockey world says Rantanen is a better player