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Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan
I would have happily signed Kovalchuk for $3.5 million on a one year deal. That's disappointing.
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Dont forget a few little things.
Theres a reason why players love playing in the NHL, its the best league in the world, but theres a cost to that.
In Russia the players arent taxed, he likely doesnt have or need a Russian agent, so Ilya will walk away with likely every ruble of that contract.
In North America you take 10% off the top to the agent and likely somewhere in the neighbourhood of 30%-40% in taxes, then theres escrow, etc, so for him to walk away with the same number of rubles in his pocket you'd have to roughly double that number.
Tells me that he was probably looking for a deal in the $7M-$8M range and I for one am glad he did not find that here.