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Originally Posted by Brewmaster
Making the assumption that this article is close to accurate and the athletes playing for these teams are paying that tax rate, that gives the Flames and Oilers a huge advantage. For players signing as free agents, after-tax dollars would be their primary focus (city, team & family aside). PK Subban's new $9M/year deal in Montreal would be the equivalent of $6.7M/year in Alberta.
Using a $69M cap in 2014/15 we could convert this to an 'after tax' salary cap of:
Calgary $42.4M
Edmonton $42.4M
....
Anaheim $32.4M
LA $32.4M
San Jose $32.4M
Montreal $31.7M
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I think the only advantage to this is if you could convince someone to take a paycut and argue they would make more.
But in reality if they could make 9 million in montreal they would ask for 9 million here.