Exact same comparison went through my head

Another reason its hard for CDN teams to sign players

Tavares is in a fight with Revenue Canada on how his signing bonus is taxed

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/tops...c59644bd&ei=18

I'm not a Canadian tax expert but in the U.S. he would be taxed at a normal rate of 35%. A signing bonus the way teams use it is basically an up front salary. Certainly he is not playing for $1 million a year. Also assume that if he were to retire early that he would have to pay some of that signing bonus back?

5 games.

LOL Leafs
Lol Rielly

Got a small wager on STL ML. You're welcome Phil.

ah yes canada, the only country where rich dbags don't want to pay their taxes. anyway, this is clearly preventing teams from signing the players that they've signed and can't get rid of ... or something


5 games about what i expected for rielly given that the player wasn't really injured, would have been at least 10-20 if greig broke a cheekbone or suffered a bad concussion or something. great system

Costco $1.50 hot dogs really close to Rogers Arena

lolol

was gonna say that doesn't make much sense, but yeah u rite

It's now over 30 years since a Canadian team won the Stanley Cup.

Absolutely embarrassing.

And the Laffs have never won a real Cup.

Cup was real but Laffs have never won 3 playoff rounds, let alone 4.

Even better is a lot of them came in the Original Six era where the Bruins, Rangers, and Blackhawks were basically not allowed to have good teams because of the 50 mile rule.

That rule should still exist

pop quiz hotshot: name chicago's top point scorer in the games since bedard was injured

you have 100 guesses

Still welcome.

if the canucks can also pry jonathan quick from the NY rangers they'll lift the SC this year

lol u, nice try. this is a trick question. the blackhawks haven't scored since bedard got injured.

Christ, the Kings' new coach bump appears to have been shirt lived

Double post.

A good night for our teams.

Another Maple Leaf hatty and a OT win!

Interesting CBS sports article HERE on the playoff run. Thought I'd post some quotes for teams the regs follow and post about.

Should be a good sweat and lots of great hockey down the stretch!

One game tonight, Arizona, Carolina.

so jarmo kekalainen's reign of terror in columbus is finally over


https://defector.com/jarmo-kekalaine...-gets-the-boot


a very mixed bag. on the one hand he maybe turned them from joke afterthought team into one that can at least make the playoffs occasionally, but on the other, how much of that is just a natural outcome of basic competence in a salary-capped league? makes sense to try to take the next step with someone else (though they'll prob pick some donk who is worse lol), especially since they've kind of been aimlessly spinning their tires for a few years now.

did some good things, like dumping seth jones for a bunch of chicago's 1sts, and some bad, like some of his recent coaching choices, among other things. will be interesting to see if kekalainen gets another shot somewhere else ... not sure if he deserves one.

canucks are obv running insanely hot, but it actually might continue through the entire season. last night during the game they were showing their remaining schedule and they have: the most home games, 0 games in the eastern time zone, 5 games outside the pacific time zone. should be a breeze ... so obv everything will now go to complete ****

i'd still prob bet on them to lose in the 1st/2nd round of the playoffs, because they still aren't actually that great