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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
Last year people repeatedly said Stamkos was getting $10 million +. Sure he was injured, but he has roughly the same pedigree, past performance and is also the same age as Tavares.
Their contracts will be comparable if he stays with Isles, and $9.5 to $10 million per if he goes elsewhere IMO.
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The tax rates between Florida and New York are vastly different. For someone to take home the same pay as Stamkos playing in New York would be comparable to 10M.
It was even bigger in Toronto. For Stamkos to bring home the same pay in Toronto he would have had to have a 11M+ contract while giving up his 8th year. Financially, it made the most sense for Stamkos to stay in Tampa, so this is not at all a similar situation.
http://www.tampabay.com/sports/hocke...tamkos/2262766
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Raiola calculated that if Stamkos takes $8.5 million with the Lightning, it would net almost the same annually as $10 million in New York, presuming he'd be a New York City resident (see chart).
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Tavares could always take a hometown discount, but there's teams out there lining up to pay him 12M. People still think it's 2006 when it comes to salary cap.
Iginla making 7M when the cap was 39M was 18% of the cap. Ovechkin making 9.5M when the cap was 56.7M was 17% of the cap. Kane making 10.5M when the cap was 71.4M was 15% of the cap. Tavares at 12M would be between 15 and 16% of the cap.
Even as good as Jamie Benn was when he signed his 9.5M contract, he's no Tavares.