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Originally Posted by The Yen Man
I mean, $8.7M is still $8.7M in real dollars here, not Monopoly money. For that much, they better be asking for a 1st rounder at least. Guess it's easy for us fans to spend the money, as that's number exercise on a spreadsheet. A little harder for Murray Edwards to actually ok that out without getting something significant in return for his team.
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I agree with this on some level... but then you look at Montreal setting $18 million on fire in this deal and seemingly laughing. And the Montreal owners are worth less than Murray! The whole family is seemingly worth ~ 1.5 billion less in fact.
I suppose you could say that it's easily absorbed in the Canadiens op budget... but really I think it's ultimately pretty defeating to talk about money when we're talking about plutocrats.