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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
Can’t imagine the “keeping up with the Jones’s” that must go on with NHL locker rooms. You actually get a very significant spread of values, like the difference between a $6MM/ year player and a $2MM is (well, obviously 4) huge but I bet they don’t act like it in the moment.
Out for drinks, out for dinner, the wives hanging out, the investments and purchases and houses and cars and all that crap. I bet there is some serious pressure on some of the lower earner guys who really do make a lot but really do need to be smart about it.
There’s, “I make enough to buy a house and retire somewhat comfortably” money and then there is “I make so much money I have no idea how I’ll ever spend it all or remotely close to all of it and I don’t give a ####” money and the NHL salary band straddles these realms.
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I remember an interview with Marc Boerigter (former Stampeder who went and played for the KC Chiefs after). He was saying that about the NFL and how in his position he was making about $175k while players like Priest Holmes were making about $6m a year. He was pretty candid that you can't roll with those guys because its obviously a different world entirely.