GDT: Hurricanes vs Montreal: The Return of the High Effort GDT

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No, the little guys don't get hit harder. It's a percentage. Same percentage. The richer players have more money to lose, but the percentages do not get larger the less you make.

What you saw was an NHL player being very, very bad at understanding basic math. Which is most of them. Players have historically been very, very stupid about what escrow is and how it's connected to the cap and league revenues, to the point where the NHLPA had to conduct seminars in recent years. The players used to always use the cap escalator thinking it gave them free money, but then complained about escrow got larger- because they had just voted to increase the cap well above the 50-50 split, requiring escrow to make up the difference.
Signing bonuses are not subject to escrow…. So all the big guys have been signing deals with most of their money in signing bonuses so they are not only lockout proof they also don’t have escrow taken out….

So yes, the rate, once decided means it is an equal % of regular salary deducted to bring it back to a 50/50 revenue split, but the calculations that decide how much percentage the escrow rate will be is skewed where the stars forcing the hands of teams to give the shaft to the entry level and non stars to have to pay higher escrow on their deals still is true as I said…
 

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