Quoting: FlamesBlow
Lol wow, leafs get the pajama boy to come home and now ever single GTA kid is going to play there for cheap. I will give you a million a year for five years (more than that when you consider alberta's lower provincial income tax) to go live in a major city and play hockey with two of the 10 best players in the planet and you say no to that.
And again, I dont really expect Toronto not to match, but if they do they start losing good players and arent able to replace them with anything other than an ELC, and while the leafs are a young team its not exactly like they have a great prospect pool. When Bracco is your best forward prospect you have a problem.
What I am saying is, 1 Million dollars of salary per year is not enough to make a guy like Marner leave Toronto for Edmonton of all places. If you knew how to read english, you might have understood that was what I said in my previous comment.
Benefits of Marner playing in Toronto include:
1) A good, young team with many of his friends
2) Playing for your home town team
3) Living for free (the owner of his condo allows him to live rent free, and has for awhile now. In Toronto with their ridiculous prices, that is A LOT of money he doesn't have to spend)
4) Endorsement deals flying out the wazzoo. Seriously Marner is sponsored by EVERYTHING. He is the most popular Leaf in Toronto and gets PAID to be the face of many things (this is a big part of why 1 million is not even close to enough to pull him out)
5) Getting paid 25-33% more (11.875-12.635) because of the Loonie (only applies to American market comparisons)
6) Toronto's ability to pay entirely in SB's (time value of money + tax benefits)
Edmonton on the other hand:
1) Cap strapped with bad contracts
2) failing to even make the playoffs with a generational talent and 2 hundred point scorers
3) Having to live in Edmonton
4) Would be reviled in Toronto (bye-bye endorsements that will easily double his NHL salary)
5) Having to live in Edmonton