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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
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.
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Their literal active roster is over $92M. Subtract whatever you want from it, but just because Quick is on the bench, it doesn't mean they're not paying him. They still had to have an owner capable of spending $106M to be able to ice the roster they have.
And bumping up the $5M cutoff to $6.5M to make your point does nothing to dissuade my point. My point about the $5M contracts was about depth, not high-end. Everyone talks about how Vegas can roll 4 lines, but it's a lot easier to roll 4 lines when you have 9 $5M+ players worth of depth/talent.
Most of the owners outside of NYR, TOR, MTL, VGK, (maybe other huge markets I'm missing) wouldn't authorize taking on a $106M player budget, even if they were presented with the same LTIR opportunities that Vegas had. That's the literal definition of buying a cup.