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Originally Posted by codynw
They're not though. They don't happen a lot but they do happen. Plenty of examples of good players taking less than market value to play for a team that they really want to play for. Stamkos is one noteworthy example, he could've got way more than he did. Same with Tavares for another big one.
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Tavares wasn't a hometown discount at all. He's being paid 1.5mil per year less than McDavid and he sucks considerably more than that gap in dollar figures. Sure, he could have maybe made 500,000 more elsewhere but Toronto isn't getting his services at any discount.