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  1. Mike Ashley is the Melynk of the premier league albeit with less desirable characters and runs his stores and warehouses like a modem day sweatshop. there is issues with Saudi owners, however this takeover is 18months in the making and a big issue around it was due to some of the big 6 in the EPL not wanting another big player in the league. It’s only the pending legal action and arbitration that have forced this through. Also there seems not to be as much outcry of sport washing when we have a World Cup in Qatar, World Heavyweight boxing, now F1, chess, golf, horse racing in Saudi Arabia, yet when it’s Newcastle it causes uproar.
  2. Key wording - up to, not 50% but up to 50%
  3. If a team spent to the cap do you think Canadian owners would be happy to be a cap team and have to pay 15/20% more plus any additional tax liability for being the employer in their province. yes Aqua man has always spend to the cap, but moving the burden onto the owners isn’t the way to solve this issue
  4. He isn’t, he got waived on Sunday
  5. Owners wouldn’t agree to it and it doesn’t solve the issue. tax is complicated. What about for the American players who play in Canada and have to pay in addition to the Canadian taxes the ‘American citizen tax’ what about those that use tax vehicles to minimise their tax liability? it’s not simple, and yes teams in low tax states get a benefit but even if you fixed the issues around how to manage a net pay cap it would mean that owners in high tax areas would be paying more for players (and likely increasing their own tax liabilities) while at the same time if that team was also Canadian they would also be contributing a higher amount of profit anyway to profit share so in essence moving from gross to net would just make it more likely teams would leave Canada, and I doubt any Canadian owner would agree to it
  6. I don’t think anyone who is saying it’s physcotic or a manic episode is saying it’s cowardly or that it shouldn’t be believed. if anything it’s you that is adding those bits together. It looks like a manic episode and he is known to be bipolar so it fits. And coming from a place of second hand experience (ie loved ones with bipolar) it looks that way. however just because it’s a manic episode does not mean that their isnt any truth to what he is saying or that it’s invalid at all. Let’s not castigate people who are talking about mental health it’s not something that should be hidden under the table and not talked about because it’s something cowardly to admit
  7. I’m with you on that - just because it looks like a manic episode and even if it is doesn’t discount the validity at all.
  8. That’s pretty awful. I did my back in playing for my university rugby team in the first game of a season I was one of only 4 players on the squad who wasn’t there on a sporting scholarship. However after the doctors report they refused to let me play for the remainder of the season even though I would have played through the pain and they could have shoved me full of drugs to keep me going. Culture really does differ massively. But I also wonder if I was on a scholarship if their approach would have been different
  9. Lehrer has known bipolar issues as the way these are being posted leads me to believe he is going through a manic episode. that said I also don’t discredit what he is saying because of the above and the accusations should be taken seriously. Its also going to be interesting in the lead up to the 2022 olympics as the players going to that will be subject to Wada testing throughout this season, and the criteria isn’t the nhl list but the Wada list so I would not be surprised if more players were injured this season and for longer because of the specific drugs they will be avoiding.
  10. That poster would be me, would love to see this convo go down - hey mr owner we are basing cap of take home to make the teams have more parity mr owner : sounds good Yeah we will be requiring owners to compensate the players to make sure this happens mr owner : what! yeah and in order to make it level across the field we will be basing the take home pay off the cheapest tax location. mr owner : so the owners in tampa get to not pay anything extra but a Canadian owner now us to fork out not just more money to cover for this, but also contributes the most to profit share as well. Right I’m moving my team to the Cayman Islands
  11. It could work that way, where you adjust the hit to match. However I don’t see the players agreeing to alter their salary in a CBA to account for this, nor would the owners stump up the difference. in theory it sounds good but practically it would be a nightmare to fix and organise, and it’s not without its own set of problems
  12. If you adjust salary caps by local tax, it skews player value. If a player signs say in tampa for 7 mill and they have a reduced cap due to taxes and then comes to Vancouver who have an increased cap due to taxes that 7 mill contract would be more beneficial to Vancouver. Flip this the other way, means Vancouver could sign players for higher values, but then good luck trying to trade that player down the line. it just wouldn’t work and would be more of a mess than it is currently. the only way I see it working would be making the player cap hit based on take home pay but then the issue arises that while a cap hit would stay the same regardless of location the cost to the business of a player would massively vary and some of the franchises again wouldn’t be able to afford that. in a nutshell adjusting cap to taxes wouldn’t make parity it would make it worse
  13. That’s not to bad tbh not the best case but clearly not bad contracts as it stands today.
  14. Since the other thread was merged trying to find what they signed for been scrolling back through - anyone able to give me the heads up
  15. Top US defence officials have said the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan can be traced back to a deal between the group and the Trump administration. The so-called Doha agreement was signed in February 2020 and set a date for the US to withdraw its troops. Gen Frank McKenzie said the deal had a "really pernicious effect" on the Afghan government and military. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin agreed, saying the agreement had helped the Taliban get "stronger". In addition to setting a withdrawal date, the Doha agreement included broad obligations on the Taliban to take steps to prevent groups such as al-Qaeda from threatening the security of the US and its allies. After his election, US President Joe Biden continued the plan for withdrawal but with an end date of 31 August, instead of May. The US defence officials made the comments on Wednesday in testimony to the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee. The hearing is taking place weeks after a chaotic withdrawal at Kabul airport as foreign powers sought to get their citizens home and thousands of desperate Afghans begged for rescue. A suicide attack killed 182 people during the operation. As head of the US Central Command, Gen McKenzie oversaw the withdrawal from Afghanistan, which marked the end of a 20-year presence in the country and America's longest war. Gen McKenzie told the committee the Doha agreement had a strong psychological effect on the Afghan government because it set a date for "when they could expect all assistance to end". BACKGROUND: Who supported the deal with the Taliban? ANALYSIS: What has changed in Afghanistan in 20 years VOICES: Female Afghan judges hunted by the murderers they convicted He said he had believed "for quite a while" that if the US reduced the number of its military advisers in Afghanistan below 2,500, the Afghan government and military would inevitably collapse. After the Doha agreement, he said the troop reduction ordered by President Biden in April was "the other nail in the coffin". Mr Austin said that by committing the US to ending air strikes against the Taliban, the Doha agreement meant the Islamist group "got stronger, they increased their offensive operations against Afghan security forces, and the Afghans were losing a lot of people on a weekly basis". The defence officials previously spoke to the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, where Gen Milley and Gen McKenzie said they had recommended keeping a force of 2,500 troops in Afghanistan, ahead of the full US withdrawal in August. Gen Milley also said the Taliban takeover would make it harder to protect Americans from terrorist attacks, as he described the group as a terrorist organisation that "still has not broken ties with al-Qaeda". media caption, Gen Milley: Al-Qaeda may rebuild in Taliban-run Afghanistan Speaking to the BBC on Wednesday, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the militants had "given guarantees to the world that there will not be any threat against any country including the United States from Afghan soil". "We are committed to the agreement which has been signed in Doha between the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and the United States. We also want Americans and its allies to be committed on the agreement too. Instead of making negative comments it would be better for them to choose the way of diplomacy and co-operation," he said.
  16. Same here. I was hoping that they would do a bolt on for Disney plus but doesn’t seem like it, and trying to find out the information is an hunt. unlike the NBA which is so easy to find access and watch over here. Season pass is easy to find info on, download and access and it’s a pretty good package NHL are miles behind on international marketing.
  17. Just a couple of years ago everyone was saying dump Rathbone and keep Rafferty - look how that turned out
  18. Tbh if you going after arbitrary unfair advantages the league structure itself is not a fair and balanced system with teams not playing the same amount of games against all teams. Yes it’s not too imbalanced at the divisional level now that there are two divisions per conference rather than three however if you are a team in the wildcard hunt strength of schedule could screw you vs the teams in the opposite division. the cap and the impact of local taxes is an issue but it’s not a simple solution, do you lower cap for certain teams raise it for others etc. If so what about if you then trade a player. Do you adjust their salary to compensate? If not then if you sign for a team who gets a negative cap hit you could get traded to a team that has a positive cap uplift and they would get an extra boost. plus even if you found a solution to balance it out, while I get that most of the players will be millionaires at the bottom end and the youth players they won’t be. The impact on them could be big. The cost of living in say SJ or NY or Denver or Vancouver would be far higher then the cost of living in St Paul etc
  19. Beats the 3:30 4:30 am face off times here
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