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Originally Posted by Knut
The reality is about 300k difference between top and bottom. Thats not an egregious premium for the higher tax markets and can offset pretty easily.
Lifestyle and winning is more of the driving force IMO.
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It's nearly $400k and on a three year contract at $3m a year, it's well over a million. On an 8-year, 10 million contract, it's $10m in the player's pocket (Tkachuk, for example, is taking home $5m more in Florida than if he had stayed in Calgary with the deal he signed).
Winning and lifestyle are important, but that's a lot of cake to think that it's not a big deal.
This is a fantastic piece. Old school informative journalism.