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Originally Posted by krynski
I think the point Textcritic is trying to make is that they all don't make 75-90K. For a lot of these players, they have invested the majority of their teenage (and even younger) and adult lives up to this point in hockey, hoping to make it to the big stage. For a number of them, they might end up in the AHL/ECHL not making as much as they hoped (for some, enough to live off of, but not enough to try and plan retirement).
https://work.chron.com/pro-hockey-salaries-1275.html
I had a bit of a hard time finding info, but AHL minimum contracts are ~45k (though average 90k), ECHL ~26k. |
If any of these guys think that the end of their hockey career should mean a retirement from working life, then they are fools. This actually comes up every time there is a labour dispute. How am I supposed to put away enough to live on for 60 years with this meager wage? No one is entitled to that kind of wealth, and whenever one of them brings it up it comes off as incredibly tone deaf.
One of the things that broke the union in 2005 was the drunk open letter from some 4th liner about how he might have to actually work like some sucker. That was when the public realized just how out of touch these guys are with their expectations of wealth to come from a game that they should be pretty happy to play for just about any amount of money. The players make themselves less relatable than billionaire owners. It will happen again if they sewer this season.