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Originally Posted by GioforPM
RFA contracts are not the difference they used to be. Look at Marner. Taxes - if your agent is simple I suppose they make a difference. But it’s actually not. And none of the teams that can afford Gaudreau and would be interested in him are in tax havens as far as I can see anyway.
Anyway, like I keep saying, players care less about yearly salary than they do total contract value. That’s why year 8 is critical.
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I completely agree with you that especially in this instance that 8th year is huge (
which is why I think the Flames should be exploring sign-and-trade if they can't come to terms with Gaudreau) but I find the bolded far too contradictory.
With signing bonuses, like our buddy's Panarin contract that sees him making 1M a year in salary each year but signing bonuses as high as 13M, you can't go and say taxes don't matter and then argue that players only care about total contract value. They care about what goes into their pockets.