trujaysfan
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And?
No new contracts can be signed so it should not impact the cap integrity. If a team wants to add 40 mil to payroll and spend the assets to do that it helps the rebuilding teams get assets faster.
2025-2026 Off Season Thread - The Rehappening
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No new contracts can be signed so it should not impact the cap integrity. If a team wants to add 40 mil to payroll and spend the assets to do that it helps the rebuilding teams get assets faster.
LeafOfFaith
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With these mixed messages, how funny would it be if they traded his rights for something decent and then Marner just resigns with us anyway.
The ultimate con.
LeafOfFaith
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Yeah, I mean what's the point of the cap anyway if it doesn't apply in the playoffs?
mbow30
Spudmeister Supreme
Sweet. Marner and matthews combine for 3000 career reg season points as maple leafs and 7 playoff goals.
MindzEye
Wayward Ditch Pig
Seriously. Do you not understand how stupid your take on this is?
You're working under this weird assertion that other teams being beat by this are failing because they make bad decisions....when if they are making decisions of the same fucking quality as a non tax team, they lose by 8-9% by structure.
The whole point of this fucking system is to take away systemic financial advantage. The entire fucking point.
zeke
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well the cap was always only about keeping player salaries at a percentage of league revenue, not about enforcing competitiveness, so that's not really the issue.
it just seems to me that it would create a weird situation where some teams could literally double their payroll at the deadline (while only actually paying a fraction of the actual increase)......but i could be wrong.
zeke
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trujaysfan
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The cap is in place so that players can't be allocated more than 50% of projected revenues.
zeke
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while true, this begs the question as to why they care about things like signing bonus allocations, term limits, salary variation, etc.
mbow30
Spudmeister Supreme
That’s one to stay the fuck away from. I’d rather give a crazy overpay to kane on a one year deal then touch ehlers.
MindzEye
Wayward Ditch Pig
He's always had a thing for protecting his pet teams in the sunbelt.
Your going way way way fucken overboard on this one
These teams had the advantage for decades nobody wanted to play for them , they have created a winning culture now
Some contracts are hardly any bargains , BOBO 10 mil , Sergashev 8.5 etc... if you factor in the tax issue
These are examples of total fiscal disadvantage
Dodgers and Mets 300 fucken mil and 75 % of the league cant touch them for players in free agency
Soto makes more than some franchises this year
GSW spend 400-500 mil on payroll winning titles and most teams cant afford 200-300 on luxury bills
Your crying over 8-9% that mainly affects your core 4-5 players , 8 mil in Florida vs 9.3 elsewhere etc..
Seriously are your Leafs playoff fuck ups because of the 8-9% or the moronic trade deadline deals , bloated contracts , terrible drafting and piss poor asset management that waited too long to change the DNA .
Zito and Nill have done a great job drafting and developing and turning rejects and reclamation projects into solid players
The rest of the league has a smaller margin for error and needs to make much smarter decisions but they can all compete
zeke
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a 10% advantage is a big advantage. full stop.
MindzEye
Wayward Ditch Pig
Amazing that you can type all of that while actually grasping this point.
Amazing.
But no, it definitely effects more than your core players. It effects literally every contract on your roster. Everyone will sign for 8-9% less because they don't care about AAV on puckpedia, they care about take home paycheque.
At a 95 million dollar cap, it's likely operating with a 103-104 million dollar cap.
Wayward DP
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just a quick point of clarification - there was a hockey news article posted here earlier about Tavares' appeal in Tax Court - that article was factually just full of a lot of shit. the matter is not resolved and remains ongoing. just want to set the record straight there.
Preston
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Very basic mathematics here, I'm surprised some folks can't grasp it.
Pwner
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Yeah, you know that the NBA just made major changes to their second appron luxury tax penalties to address your exact point? That is why Boston had their mini "teardown". And I expect more moves like that throughout the league.
MyNameIsJonas
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Ehlers and Boesser are traps
Good enough to get very long term deals, but probably look like way better options than they are cause of a shit class.
IMO its Marner, Bennett and Ekblad at the top, these two frauds and alot of olds that could/should be good short term value
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou
I will get banned again soon, worry not.
He's right. It's not about airlifting IN bodies, it's about airlifting OUT bodies.
trujaysfan
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Signing bonus would be lockout proof, term limits and salary variation due to the retirement contracts handed out where the last several years it is expected the player doesnt play. Both would have impacts on overall dollars spent in a playing time frame.