Enough moaning about taxes - it’s the salary cap! ‘Nowadays the guard rails are gone and the money flows, except if you’re an NHL hockey star. You make less than an NBA bench player. In a world of billionaire owners, with NHL franchises worth billions and billions more, the NHL has a hard salary cap of 80 million. What percentage of franchise value to salary is that? Who signed that deal? Maybe 15 years ago NHL owners might have been able to tell you that there weren’t enough revenue streams to compete with the other big pro sports, but now, Rogers owns every pro sports team in Toronto, of which the Maple Leafs are the crown jewel and Mitch Marner makes something compared to a hack middle reliever on the Blue Jays. Same owner. Times change boys, with a new NHL salary deal coming, time to wake up and learn your history.’ https://trkingston.substack.com/p/a-canadian-nhl-commissioner-would
Enough moaning about taxes - it’s the salary cap! ‘Nowadays the guard rails are gone and the money flows, except if you’re an NHL hockey star. You make less than an NBA bench player. In a world of billionaire owners, with NHL franchises worth billions and billions more, the NHL has a hard salary cap of 80 million. What percentage of franchise value to salary is that? Who signed that deal? Maybe 15 years ago NHL owners might have been able to tell you that there weren’t enough revenue streams to compete with the other big pro sports, but now, Rogers owns every pro sports team in Toronto, of which the Maple Leafs are the crown jewel and Mitch Marner makes something compared to a hack middle reliever on the Blue Jays. Same owner. Times change boys, with a new NHL salary deal coming, time to wake up and learn your history.’ https://trkingston.substack.com/p/a-canadian-nhl-commissioner-would