Bigger markets pay bigger taxes, but they have bigger marketing opportunities.
Nashville is a unique opportunity right now of low taxes and booming city of popularity. Perfect timing for David Poile.
If this is all it took to sign him, why didn't Ottawa do this?
It's not as if Duchene will be cheaper, he'll likely be wanting 7M+
Marketing opportunities are overrated when it comes to hockey. This isn't basketball where players get 9-figure endorsement deals, and marketing is outside of the realm of relevance when it comes to the cap situations of teams.
The tax breaks one gets in Nashville/Tampa/Dallas are why these teams are all loaded contenders with good cap situations and can re-tool over 1 off-season to become serious contenders out of the blue.
Meanwhile, these are some of the smallest fanbases in the league. It's infuriating. Im mot saying remove the cap, just make it fair.
If this is all it took to sign him, why didn't Ottawa do this?
It's not as if Duchene will be cheaper, he'll likely be wanting 7M+
Wolves,
You are speaking to a Nashville Predators fan. Go cry yourself a river somewhere else. Give me a break. The Predators have literally signed zero players out from underneath any teams, ever, in the teams inception.
This is a unique opportunity, but your angst is overstated.
Your management valued Duchene, and made a move for him, for better or worse. This isn't about a small market having some unbelievable advantage over other markets.
People here who are criticizing Ottawa for "not being willing to match this" are completely naive and missing the point.
This is an unfair league that heavily favours the southern low-tax markets. The NHL cap desperately needs a tax formula implemented, because most teams would not have been able to get Turris at 6 x 6, or Arvidsson at the deal he got this summer.
You can't whine about the bigger northern markets with bigger fanbases having an unfair advantage in a no-cap or high-cap league, then be okay with the way it works right now, where the southern "small hockey markets" have a ridiculous tax advantage.
Ottawa is so out to lunch on this trade and now the deal Turris signed.. I get if he straight up told you he wasn't resigning, that you want to trade and get something for him but to completely over pay for Duchene? Eeeek.
Also, so much for Bones going to Nash for a bigger role. RIP that decision
No the NHL does not need that. So many things effects players signing with a team even for cheaper
like desirability of the city the team plays in or how good the team is and so on. If you adjust for 1 thing you need to adjust for everything and I wouldn't trust any adjustments made. Things the way they are is fine.
Money is the #1 reason players sign for whom they sign. When the money you're permitted to spend is so low that certain teams have a significant advantage because of tax dollars, you have a significant fairness issue with regards to the cap...which is meant to make things fair.
Therefore the cap is a failure in itself. System is broken. There is nothing else that would need adjustment if you had a tax formula. You certainly don't adjust for anything unrelated to money anyway.
Weather. Don't forget a weather penalty. Scenery, maybe? Hot chick penalty?Money is the #1 reason players sign for whom they sign. When the money you're permitted to spend is so low that certain teams have a significant advantage because of tax dollars, you have a significant fairness issue with regards to the cap...which is meant to make things fair.
Therefore the cap is a failure in itself. System is broken. There is nothing else that would need adjustment if you had a tax formula. You certainly don't adjust for anything unrelated to money anyway.
Good thing you have a guy capable of being a 1C as your 2C for 6 millionPoile is a genius. Too bad he couldn't get Johansen for 7 million though. 8 is just to much for a guy who is barely a 1C.
Good deal for the Preds, Reportedly Turris was wanting more sounds like he was willing to take less in Nashville believe to have wanted more to stay in Ottawa.
Money is the #1 reason players sign for whom they sign. When the money you're permitted to spend is so low that certain teams have a significant advantage because of tax dollars, you have a significant fairness issue with regards to the cap...which is meant to make things fair.
Therefore the cap is a failure in itself. System is broken. There is nothing else that would need adjustment if you had a tax formula. You certainly don't adjust for anything unrelated to money anyway.
Going by what Friedman said last night: management was good to do a deal, Melnyk wouldn't though.