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Originally Posted by Major Major
Why? Small market teams are capitalizing on low dollar cap space and getting assets. The Rangers and teams like them, for all their bluster, rarely achieve success with these moves. And if they do, they operate under the same cap constraints the next season as anyone else. Such a whiney and insubstantial post.
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Not true.
Just because they are the NYR.
Adam Fox
Vlad Tarasenko
Patrick Kane
Artemi Panarin
These were all players who chose (or will choose in case of Kane) to go there because of playing in New York and for the Rangers in Manhattan. These are no schlubs.
Boston-
Krejci - $1M
Bergeron - $2.5M
Both took less so that the team could load up. Because why? Boston.
If you look around just in popular culture- it already started happening in the NBA 15 years ago.
Since the Spurs won the NBA title in 2005, it has been won by:
- GSW x 4
- Miami x 3
- Lakers x 3
- Dallas x 1
- Spurs x 1
- Cleveland x 1
- Toronto x 1
- Milwaukee x 1
Out of all those championships, the only cities I would consider not a major market are Dallas, San Antonio, Cleveland, Milwaukee. That's 4 out of 15 championships. Cleveland really only won because of Lebron and his ability to attract star players so it's really only 3 teams in 15 years. I see a stretch of this happening in the NHL as it goes down this path where star players decide to team up with other star players in major cities while taking discounts etc. Now that this double retention trade is out of the bag, the trade deadline will never be the same. These major market teams will continuously load up at the deadline with star players.