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Originally Posted by Hockey_Ninja
I keep on seeing people bring up state taxes for why the Lightning and Panthers have been in the last six cup finals but like, those teams struggled before getting to those finals. Tampa had that embarrassing choke in 2019. The Panthers were pretty #### for a long time before getting good. The state taxes didn't help them then. I really think it's just those teams eventually putting together the right pieces to make championship teams. Bill Zito made a very bold decision trading Huby and Weegar for Tkachuk and it paid off. Hiring Maurice changed their on-ice philosophy and it worked
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Geography/taxes is part of the reason Tkachuk was available to them. Lots of teams would have traded for Tkachuk and the Flames would have paid him more to keep him. Tkachuk had low tax states and his home town on his trade list.