You are saying that other teams were going to sign Bob at 10M? Lol ok. Do you wipe your tears on your teddy or blankey when the big bad taxes come into your room at night?
1.) my opinion yes. Columbus wanted him
2.) my opinion on who may or may not have signed him doesn’t matter what does matter is the statements from agents gms players media and accountants saying that people take less on no state tax teams because they still get the same money
3.) you again are completely wrong. You have embarrassed yourself by being wrong about every aspect of the contract, and even cited and example that proves my point.
Goalies with his resume in high tax markets take more. He took 12.27 which was right about the 12% we would expect for a 2 time Vezinas winner in Florida. He would have cost 11.4 in Montreal like price
This is exactly what i said. You proved my point
5.) are you young? You seem to be childish
Edit. I should clarify that goalies may be a different market now. Goalies were getting big money 5 years ago. Teams have changed. So the current % may not hold at 14% for new contacts.
But we will still see the discount ie. saros took less than Sorokin. Hellybuck and soon to be shesterkin