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Originally Posted by FanIn80
I can't remember the exact numbers (I posted them in this thread last week), but VGK's dressed roster for every game in the playoffs is over $100M (Edit: $93M). They have 9 $5M+ active players in this series compared to 5 on Florida (VGK and FLA both have another one on LTI).
There are not many owners in this league that can afford a $100M (Edit: $106M (total)) roster. Florida's active roster is (I think, from memory) $79M (Edit: $76M) in comparison.
Edit: Here's the post I was referencing.
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That includes a bunch of people not actually dressing for games.
Their game 4 roster cost $77.8M if you don't include Quick's salary
Compare that to Florida who cost $71M if you don't include Lyon's salary.
So sure Vegas had $7M more in Salary dressed vs game 4 vs Florida...but how much of that is just because Florida was an 8 seed that wasn't a buyer at the deadline. And both team's dressed roster is actually below the Salary cap.
If you look at $6.5M+ salaries instead of $5M+ salaries then Florida has 5 (Barkov, Bobrovsky, Tkachuk, Ekblad, Reinhart) and Vegas only has 3 (Eichel, Stone, Pietrangelo)
So not nearly as big of a factor as your making it to be IMO.