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irvine
PickupHockey Veteran
Canada
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 Posted - 12/07/2007 : 20:31:21
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Poll Question:
If you played in the NHL, at this moment in time. Would you honestly prefer to make $10.0 million a season, or play on a strong, stanley cup contending team making $1.0 million per season.
Irvine
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Edited by - irvine on 12/07/2007 20:32:26
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Ottawa Oilers
Rookie
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Posted - 12/07/2007 : 21:09:55
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| 10M that's a hella lot of money. As much as I would want a cup, 10M could last years. If it were say 7M I would go for the Cup Contending team. But 10M is just a ridiculous amount of money. |
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PuckNuts
PickupHockey Veteran
Canada
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Posted - 12/07/2007 : 23:41:47
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Well if I was making 10 mil a season then the team management would build around me, then next season I would be on the Stanley Cup contending team...
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
- - Marshall McLuhan
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irvine
PickupHockey Veteran
Canada
1315 Posts |
Posted - 12/08/2007 : 00:20:09
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quote:
Originally posted by PuckNuts
Well if I was making 10 mil a season then the team management would build around me, then next season I would be on the Stanley Cup contending team...
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
- - Marshall McLuhan
Yes, they would build around you. But, it's not going to make you a cup contending team the following year, per say. Crosby is the current NHL phenom, yet, the pens are not a stanley cup contender. And he's in his third year. :D
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PuckNuts
PickupHockey Veteran
Canada
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Posted - 12/08/2007 : 00:38:18
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What do you mean per say...
I am making 10 mil in the NHL, I am one of the best players in the NHL...
By the way the other guy that is making 1 mil, he is on my team, that makes us a contender...
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
- - Marshall McLuhan
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Beans15
Moderator
Canada
8286 Posts |
Posted - 12/08/2007 : 07:03:08
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OK, answer me this, a guy comes up to you on the street today and gives you an offer:
1) You can make enough money for your children's children to never have to work again, bu tpeople will pick on you....or
2) You can make enough money to last yourself the next 10 years and people will love you for those 10 years.'
What would you take??? I am taking the big dollars
Personally, knowing that the career of a hockey player is averaging 5-7 years, I would make as much money as I possibly could. It's not like the NHL has a good college system and most of these "kids" are playing pro hockey at the age of 18-19. What could they do after hockey?? Go flip burgers?? Pump Gas?? They have little to no education. That's why there was such an issue in the 90's with NHL players retiring and not having a pot to piss in.
Personally, call me greedy, call me what ever, but if I had a chance to sign a Vanek like contract, regardless of the team I am playing on, I take the money and run!
I also think you notice that with NHL players. For the first contract or two, they are ensuring they are not getting screwed over, but maybe looking to win. Then, they look for money. Most if not all of us would do the same thing. I think your kidding yourself if you say you wouldn't.
Look at Sid the Kid. I know he didn't get the league max, which we all know he could have, but it's not like he said, give me $2 or $3 million a year and find someone worth $5 million to play along side of me. He took his $8.7/year.
Wayne or Bobby?? How about both!!! |
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nashvillepreds
PickupHockey Veteran
Canada
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Posted - 12/08/2007 : 07:04:43
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If I had already won the cup, then 10 million but if I hadn't, I'd rather be making lets say 5 million on a team that can easily win the cup. Just for the experience of holding the cup.
Ellis or Mason?
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Beans15
Moderator
Canada
8286 Posts |
Posted - 12/08/2007 : 07:22:13
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Holding the Cup will give your glory for a breif period of time, $10 million will give you, and your family, comfort for a life time.
Wayne or Bobby?? How about both!!! |
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Jeremy12
Rookie
Canada
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Posted - 12/08/2007 : 09:52:27
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10 mill
plus you can always get traded after you make the 10 mill
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nashvillepreds
PickupHockey Veteran
Canada
1053 Posts |
Posted - 12/08/2007 : 12:34:45
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quote:
Originally posted by Beans15
Holding the Cup will give your glory for a breif period of time, $10 million will give you, and your family, comfort for a life time.
Wayne or Bobby?? How about both!!!
Same with 5 million. Even 450, 000 will do.
Ellis or Mason?
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Beans15
Moderator
Canada
8286 Posts |
Posted - 12/08/2007 : 13:36:50
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I can agree with $5 million. But if you can make $450,000 last you and your family the rest of your life without working more, I want to meet your financial advisor. Or maybe I don't, because he must be into something dirty.
The original question was a $1 million contract on a contender or $10 million on any team. It is not a sure thing to win the Cup. How many teams do amazing through the regular season and lose in the playoffs. How many times did the favorite get thrown out by a lower seed?
The Cup is not a for sure thing, a $10 million contract is.
Wayne or Bobby?? How about both!!! |
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Alex
PickupHockey All-Star
Canada
2816 Posts |
Posted - 12/08/2007 : 16:34:07
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Easily ten mil.
Beans, whaddya mean the average NHL career is 5-7 years?
Habs get number 25 this year |
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Greg Smith
Rookie
Canada
158 Posts |
Posted - 12/08/2007 : 16:50:46
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quote:
Originally posted by Beans15
I can agree with $5 million. But if you can make $450,000 last you and your family the rest of your life without working more, I want to meet your financial advisor. Or maybe I don't, because he must be into something dirty.
The original question was a $1 million contract on a contender or $10 million on any team. It is not a sure thing to win the Cup. How many teams do amazing through the regular season and lose in the playoffs. How many times did the favorite get thrown out by a lower seed?
The Cup is not a for sure thing, a $10 million contract is.
Wayne or Bobby?? How about both!!!
Beans, 450, 000 per season is about 4 mil total for the average NHl career. Actually, if a guy in the NHL today was getting paid that little, chances are they would'nt stick around the NHL much longer. |
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Beans15
Moderator
Canada
8286 Posts |
Posted - 12/09/2007 : 10:55:56
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Alex, when you consider the amount of players are borderline NHL'er who go back and forth from the minors, the length of an NHL career is not that long on average.
Just do a search on average NHL career and you will see that the majority of what you find will be somewhere around 5 years. Some are closer to 9, others say 5 or less.
Wayne or Bobby?? How about both!!! |
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Alex
PickupHockey All-Star
Canada
2816 Posts |
Posted - 12/09/2007 : 12:04:41
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OK, in that sense maybe. But if you are making 10 nil per year you will be in the NHL longer than 7 years tops, unless you are walking down the street and get run over or something...
For these guys, careers last circa 15 years (enter at 18 - 20, leave at 33 - 35) a little longer for the sentimentalists.
Habs get number 25 this year |
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Which would you prefer as a player? 
