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Originally Posted by GioforPM
It depends on age. A young single player cares about money. His health care is taken care of. He rents. He wants fun off ice. He wants to play in Vegas.
Older players have made a pile already. They want a nice place where they can still make money, where they are relatively anonymous, where the neighborhood is nice. They play in San Jose.
That said, the tax advantage for players is a real thing, and it governs a lot of bottom line decision making. To match Stone I figure the Flames would have had to pay $1.5M more or thereabouts. Because not only do they have to make up the tax difference between what he pays there on his current salary, they'd have to pay for the incremental amount of increase on the higher salary to equal the take home.
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Actually, NHL families love Vegas. They rave about the community they live in, the schools, how great it is for kids, etc. It’s a major selling point of playing for the Knights.