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jkrdevil said:
Bobrovsky wasn’t exactly a discount when he signed there. Even this year he has the highest cap hit among goalies (not counting Price on LTIR).

The tax thing is overblown a bit. Non being able to deduct local and state taxes from federal taxes helps the no tax state teams a bit, but it has more to do with those teams cycling up at the same time. All of Tampa’s core guys were drafted and stayed. Florida drafted Barkov and Eckblad high. They got Bob have giving him more than anywhere else and having one of the few Russian enclaves in the area. Same for Huberdeau and they aren’t getting Tkachuk if they can’t offer him to Calgary.

They’ve brought in players but that has come after having success and starting to be a contender. Same with Dallas. No one coming to Florida if they are still owned by Alan Cohen in the cheap giving away tickets.
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They did overpay Bob at the time. But guys sign there on the relative cheap at a far higher rate then they do in Toronto, where it seems they only sign at premium prices.
 
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ZachaFlockaFlame said:
We did this for Timo and 90% of this board cries about Meier and his deal.
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That's because he's not really the type of player you go all in on (whether that trade was all in or not is debatable. That contract though...oof). Meier is a solid player but Fitz most definitely had a hard on for him because he was big and played a power forward style of game. The type of move where you'd see him give Bennett 10 mil / year because he fits that profile too. I will never stop talking about that until he actually signs somewhere else lol

That being said, the Meier trade I wasn't all too mad about. I was more irritated by the Markstorm trade. Like I wrote before, I can't blame Fitz too much for that, but he could've done better hw imo.
 
devilsblood said:
They did overpay Bob at the time. But guys sign there on the relative cheap at a far higher rate then they do in Toronto, where it seems they only sign at premium prices.
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Outside the big stars Toronto has brought in a lot of vets on the cheap. The stars have maxed out because they brought in the highest paid free agent at the time in terms of aav and then overpaid Nylander on an rfa deal. That sent the message to Matthews and Marner that the team would pay top dollar no matter what. Wasn’t really a tax thing.
 
Guadana said:
Thinking about Carolina as a fluke weak team is the false understanding of what is going on in nhl. Thinking about Florida that they had an easy way to the SCF is the same false understanding.
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Floridas path wasn’t easy but it was certainly front loaded…in a normal playoff system you would expect the Conference Finals to be tougher than the first round, never mind the Leaf series
 
NJDevs26 said:
Floridas path wasn’t easy but it was certainly front loaded…in a normal playoff system you would expect the Conference Finals to be tougher than the first round, never mind the Leaf series
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They played seven games against leafs. Its fun to joke about leafs but they are strong talented team. At least they were. With some problems of course. They are making steps. At least they did before saying goodbye to Marner. Wsh took many years before he played in ECF. They were a good team before it.
And its not a first time when conf final doesn't look hard for one of the finalists.
 
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I think Pete Deboer may be getting fired. It’s hard to come back from alienating your starting goalie, especially if the back up blows up worse. At the very least he enters in the hot seat.
 
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