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Around the League 2019-2025 Edition

Here's the Duchene breakdown

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Signing bonuses are taxed entirely within the state, which roughly turns that 6 million in year one of the deal into something closer to 7.5 million in Ontario and that 4.8 in year two into something closer to 6.1 million.

AFP had his market value at 7.1 x 3, which really means a net of ~11 in most markets, but a net of roughly 13 in no tax state. This 4.5 x 4 is structured to net him roughly 11 million....so more or less what his market value was.

This contract combines regular fuckery with no state tax fuckery to create a significant AAV advantage.
 
zeke said:
it'll be interesting.

i like zetterlund fine, but it sure looks to me like a guy who piled up some points getting big offensive minutes on a shit team in SJ, and went back to producing like a 4th liner after the trade, even while getting much more than 4th line minutes.
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The Ryan Donato effect. Shout out to Jonas for pointing out who that is to me.
 
MindzEye said:
Here's the Duchene breakdown

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Signing bonuses are taxed entirely within the state, which roughly turns that 6 million in year one of the deal into something closer to 7.5 million in Ontario and that 4.8 in year two into something closer to 6.1 million.

AFP had his market value at 7.1 x 3, which really means a net of ~11 in most markets, but a net of roughly 13 in no tax state. This 4.5 x 4 is structured to net him roughly 11 million....so more or less what his market value was.

This contract combines regular fuckery with no state tax fuckery to create a significant AAV advantage.
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The tax thing is very obviously a huge advantage and anyone who pretends it isn't is being intentionally ignorant. And no, it's not the only advantage and one that makes the team auto elite, no one ever said that.
 
Preston said:
The tax thing is very obviously a huge advantage and anyone who pretends it isn't is being intentionally ignorant. And no, it's not the only advantage and one that makes the team auto elite, no one ever said that.
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It's basically like starting your run as GM with a cap 8-9% higher than everyone elses. You obviously prefer to start with a competitive advantage. It makes it easier to wallpaper over mistakes, makes it easier to have cap in reserve for deadline deals, etc, etc.
 
MindzEye said:
It's basically like starting your run as GM with a cap 8-9% higher than everyone elses. You obviously prefer to start with a competitive advantage. It makes it easier to wallpaper over mistakes, makes it easier to have cap in reserve for deadline deals, etc, etc.
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That Duchene thing you outlined was a beautiful example. Leafs will sign Tavares for more and people will wonder why. But I won't now!
 
Even with Ontario tax that’s 4 x $6. The other day Chris Johnston said a long term deal for Tavares will still be over $5.

And Duchene wasn't just paid $77 mill by the Stars (or make anywhere close to that by any team), didn't grow up in Dallas, or dream of playing for the stars.
 
There seems to be this myth that winning a cup in Toronto or Montreal is more special than winning one anywhere else.

The majority of athletes are cool, winning, waking up in a nice city ( ideally with sunshine), working out, and being left the fuck alone by the general public.

Expensive housing, shit traffic, being hounded by the horde at a restaurant and critiqued for anything you do and do not do in a game by every muppet analyst and slack jawed fan is not fucking appealing.
 
MindzEye said:
They should basically CTRL C - CTRL V the Tanev contract and send it to JT's agent.

If you want more, you're welcome to uproot your family and go find it.
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JT was a #1 overall
Tanev went undrafted

Prestige matters!!!
 
MyNameIsJonas said:
There seems to be this myth that winning a cup in Toronto or Montreal is more special than winning one anywhere else.

The majority of athletes are cool, winning, waking up in a nice city ( ideally with sunshine), working out, and being left the fuck alone by the general public.

Expensive housing, shit traffic, being hounded by the horde at a restaurant and critiqued for anything you do and do not do in a game by every muppet analyst and slack jawed fan is not fucking appealing.
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The NHL is just different. In no other league would the biggest media markets in the league struggle with some players because they don't like the attention of being a professional athlete.
 
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