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Originally Posted by pseudoreality
I think Jake Muzzin was the lowest paid player on Team Canada at $4MM/season and Towes at $10.5MM/season was the highest. So $86k worked out to be an extra 0.8 to 2.1% of their earning last year. I wouldn't get that excited if I had a job where I worked half the year and my boss told me to come in three weeks earlier for an extra 1.5%.
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The thing is I would imagine most hockey players actually enjoy playing hockey. And it's not like if they weren't playing in the tourney they would just be sitting on the couch or laying on the beach. This close to the season they would already be training to get back. So they treat it as a warm-up for the season and get to have some fun plus have a chance at winning some extra money.
I'm sure Toews can find good use for his 86k even though he makes over 10 million a year.