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2025-2026 Off Season Thread - The Rehappening

Except if everyone there was making 10% more...you wouldn't think they were so well managed. They wouldnt have had cap space to make smart moves like Marchand, etc.

I don't think you guys are wrapping your heads around how big of an advantage it is and how much of being "well managed" is really just that advantage in disguise.
 
Florida is well managed. Most of their players were pulled off the scrap heap. Same with Vegas.

Meanwhile Nashville and Seattle are not well managed.

But well managed vs not well managed is irrelevant. 100% bonuses also don’t guarantee success if your team is not well managed.

But they are still unfair advantages.
 
It's pretty simple. If two equivalently smart teams exist, the team that gets the 10% discount is going to be better. So the teams without this advantage can't be as smart as Florida. They'd still get crushed. They need to be smarter. Over 10% smarter.
 
GEEMAN said:
nope , work harder and smarter

Find your own Perbix on the cheap for 4 years then walk away when he wants his bag

Find that Forsling diamond in the rough

Dont trade a near decade of firsts and all you have to show for is McCabe

These have zero to do with an 8-9% tax issue
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You keep making long-winded, extremely obvious points about the importance of smart management that no one would disagree with, like that somehow obfuscates the fact that an advantage is an advantage is an advantage. Period.
 
Volcanologist said:
why was Florida shit for so long
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Before 2010? Constantly trying to rush success and making deeply stupid trades. Also, being poor. They were bought in 2013 by a sugar daddy. The previous owner was the guy who owned blockbuster video...so yeah, you can imagine how the 2000's were going for him.

Since 2010, they only time they've really been shit was the Ekblad-Barkov-Huberdeau tank years.
 
MindzEye said:
You mean, like Barkov's contract where he makes 1 million a year on salary and the rest in signing bonus?

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...yes?

MindzEye said:
Before 2010? Constantly trying to rush success and making deeply stupid trades. Also, being poor. They were bought in 2013 by a sugar daddy. The previous owner was the guy who owned blockbuster video...so yeah, you can imagine how the 2000's were going for him.

Since 2010, they only time they've really been shit was the Ekblad-Barkov-Huberdeau tank years.
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sounds oddly familiar
 
again, I fully agree taxes are an advantage. it's not the primary or critical reason teams win though.

but why won't Bettman address this legally? when he will be addressing LTIR, bonuses, etc?
 
A 10% advantage is a 10% advantage.

Nobody would every claim that its a "primary reason for" or "guarantee of" winning.
 
Volcanologist said:
you said that the one who could get 10% cheaper would get the better haul.
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In one post: "Two smart teams"
Next post: "Two equivalently smart teams"

Yes. If they are on the same level of competence, the team that gets the discounts on average will perform better. That's what this conversation is about. That's what an advantage is and means. Just like having a super intelligent and competent management group doesn't guarantee jack shit. But it's an advantage.
 
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