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Originally Posted by ForeverFlameFan
So you’d rather have 20 games of Stone and MAYBE a playoff round win instead of an LD with top pairing potential, who also can give us more years of making it past round 1 (and then some)? Stone would’ve been a fantastic add, but I don’t think he was the difference of pushing us past the red hot Avs.
Stone was never going to sign here. And if he did, then one of our core members are on a different team.
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Stone signed for $9.5 for 8 years (to age 34) in Vegas. There is no personal state income tax in NV and the federal tax is 37% assuming no loopholes or shelters. The federal and provincial taxes here are 10% higher. He loses about a million bucks in very round numbers by signing the same contract here. So you'd have to pay him $1.5 or something like that to make up for the difference. And even then you'd have to convince him Calgary's better than Vegas to play in, or else pay even more to change his mind.