Quoting: DefenseFirst
Capfriendly has an income tax calculator. You don’t have to do the leg work, they’ll do it for you. $11M in boston is more than $12.5M in montreal in terms of post tax earnings.
If you’re going to make the history argument, you’re picking the wrong fight. Boston has all that history too. Original six franchise, arguably the place that started the country blah blah blah.
Endorsements? Seriously? Try watching tv in boston without seeing pastrnak’s face. Ever heard of Dunkin’ Donuts? Little company that’s double the size of Tim hortons (even after the Burger King stuff). There’s more endorsement opportunity in boston than there is in montreal…by a lot.
Tourism? Tourism. Seriously? Tourism. Ya, lets say that’s a factor - oh look, there’s more in boston.
You could just look at their capfriendly page and realize florida is not a contender for this.
Taxes are a huge motivator. Boston is pretty good for NHLers, not quite as good as florida, but pretty good. On an 11 million dollar deal, a contract in florida earns the player about an extra $400K than in boston, and an additional $1.3M+ over montreal.
Quality of life is indeed important - which is why he’ll probably stay in boston.
At the end of the day its boston or New Jersey. I think we all know where he’ll likely sign.
Boston has a history of losing really since the 1970s Habs team.
Trading Dryden to us really broke them as he came in before his rookie season for the playoffs
He won the Conn Smythe and killed BOS chance at 3 cups in a row to solidify their Dynasty.
Its one of those Kreider moments where Gainey wanted him but Molson wanted the French player for his first Draft which was in MTL picking Louis Leblanc.
Fast Forward to the 2014 ECF if Molson didnt make a bone head move Kreider would have been a Habs and Price in God Mode that year woulda rolled through NYR and LAK that year.
Without Price after the 1st period in Game 1 MTL pushed it to 6 games and with Price i think we woulda won the series by then
Both Teams have a history and one with making self sabotaging moves to the benefit of our Original 6 Rivals
But only BOS went like 35-40 years between cups with only 6 to their names period
MTL has 24 cups and 7 cups in that 35-40 years BOS has 1
While i conceed to your point overall since discovering the Capfriendly calculator for taxes i dont think you can seriously compare MTL and BOS as equals.
We're the Harlem Globetrotters , they're the Washington Generals
They exist Primarily so we can beat them and we could give them another 100 years without winning another cup ourselves.
BOS still wouldnt hit Double Digit Cup's at their pace let alone come close to to touching MTL's Legacy of 24.
Not saying BOS bad , they're not and probably one of our greatest rivals because of their ability to always bunch up even in losing battles.
But that doesnt change the history of our rivalry and the only Victory they truly have over us in the past 40 years that i consider tangable is their 2011 first round 7 game series win vs MTL.
Overall its always been the same story with BOS , Their Goaltending is just never good enough and when they find a Tandem that worked for 1 cup they moved on from Thomas thinking he's replacable easy
MTL doesnt do that we tank til we find a Roy or a Price or a team foolish enough to give away a Dryden
We'll tank until we find another Even if we have to build up new age Theodore's , Huet's and Halak's to play stop gap til we do.
6'6 Micheal Hrbal in this years draft might just be that guy for us though as he's 6'6 at 18 with ridiculously good numbers that didnt really dip to much switching to USHL from Europe.
If we land him and lets say Michkov then this draft will have got us extremely good quality even if they're a few years out from being able to play here and the Rebuild will stop
While again i think Pasta will not be in MTL i think Damphousse can attest to the feeling of being the guy to bring the Cup home to MTL will define his Legacy for Decades to come.
I hope he stays in Boston though just so they have no more excuses for why they couldnt grab another cup constantly retooling around Marchand , Bergeron and Krejci .