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Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts
Hi dino7c. Great weather for sure. If you’re not busy come help install my lights and fire pit table as my hand is not 100%.
Can you please tell me what taxes have to do with drafting Barkov and Ekblad? What about trading for the Sam’s and Verhagee. Getting Forsling off waivers. Getting signed to contracts that have all allowed them stay competitive and go out and get Seth Jones or Giroux previously. How about Marchand do you think he went to Florida for taxes and weather for 3 months ?
What about Tampa ? What role did it play in drafting Point and Kucherov and Vas? Hedman and on and on. We got hunter smith tho.
Dallas had no stars until they grabbed Rantanen with a significant package traded for him.
Maybe drafting, developing not rushing things along and trading picks away plays a bigger role. Singing players to fair contracts and not driving them to free agency so they can walk. Weird concept n
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I would say part of this is what their take-home pay is vs other spots, but there are other places to play with similar types of incentives, and accountants that can make that all pretty much even put anyways.
But the rest of what you said is spot on. Most players want to win #1, especially those who are going to be making big bank regardless of where they go. The fact that there are places that can win and also have great lifestyle amenities is icing on the cake. I think it's pretty ideal to play in a place that can pack the stadium when you're good, but not give a crap when you're bad, and who wouldn't want to work on the beach vs the tundra? It's not hard to figure out.