Jump to content
The Official Site of the Vancouver Canucks
Canucks Community

coastal.view

Members
  • Posts

    7,884
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by coastal.view

  1. you realize there are many tax loopholes for players i doubt any fully pay the rates being suggested bonuses skew tax rates other investments, deduction, income splitting, etc, effect them there is no simple solution as i posted before, to get the fairness being sought the nhl would have to hire accountants to review the return of each nhl player and on that basis make adjustments to the team's salary cap this is a monstrous task, fraught with privacy issues... it is not likely to happen leave things as they are and let players hire tax planners to deal with their tax liabilities
  2. well no . not really loui's contract is buy out proof due to bonuses comprising such a large percentage of his contract the non bonuses part can be bought out for 2/3 of the base salary (given his age) for younger players they can be bought out for 1/3 of their remaining salary so not sure what you mean by fully guaranteed
  3. bonuses cannot be bought out - so is fully guaranteed money base salary can
  4. come on settle down please you really think a sport like this has much relevance or importance on a hockey board? why? a sport that stole a key component of street and basement hockey in my growing up (the tennis ball) and built an odd sport up around it is now worthy of mention?? next you are gonna want to celebrate gardening in canada cuz of all the tomato plants that were propped up by broken hockey sticks
  5. not sure if that adds a lot of credibility to this post
  6. have they banned cellphones, laptops, computers? anything that connects to the internet? cuz once you can get online you can get info about anything we can't trust catholics to make smart choices i guess? my biggest catholic memory is jfk doing marilyn monroe that always seemed fishy to me given his overt catholic branding
  7. yeah .. shows a lot of effort to own the 2 absolute worst teams in the league and no other team is even close to being as bad as these 2
  8. strange and here i thought it was more about lack of talent on the team in the recent past that has been addressed in off season acquisitions and the maturing of the young talent might not be a straight line trajectory but the plan is in place the team was pretty motivated last season i think it is fairly well coached and players are held accountable not sure what you mean by "want to play hockey" actually bloody vague and disparaging
  9. cheers i stand corrected bo is gold doubt there will be another unless it is ep40 or maybe hughes
  10. what negotiations? he has presented a qualifying offer goldy can sign it or sit (or did you forget leivo had arbitration rights)
  11. believe what you want his numbers were earned early and then almost nothing later no one will accept that his numbers are real but you can if you wish
  12. more then goldy he started out strong and then cratered leivo was much more consistent
  13. um? really ? what leverage does goldy have ? is he gonna sit out ? he barely is on the team he still has way too much to prove
  14. so then how is he seriously a comparable to brock who was runner up for the calder ??? there is a statement out there by brock's agent along the lines of they are demanding a certain aav figure, but are willing to sign for any term the nucks want the difficulty for the canucks is do they truly believe enough in brock remaining healthy to committing to long term things did not work out so well for loui and no one else has signed for more then 5 years since so i can see how brock wants as much security as he can get and the nucks wondering is it is better to sign him shorter even if it means ultimately paying him more if he truly becomes what everyone believes he is trending towards
  15. i like demko long term i like markstrom medium term i think the nucks need 2 goalies.. a 1a and 1b tandem that is where the nhl is going the 1a plays 45 games and the playoffs the 1b plays 35 or so games they should be paid fairly close salaries team cap for goalie salaries should be about 10% of the cap and the two battle out each season as to who is 1a and 1b expose the lesser goalie in the seattle expansion if a goalie is selected, be prepared to let depietro develop (or another young one in our system) and sign a vet for a cheaper short term contract an elite goalie is nice to have but not required i do not think the team should invest huge cap in 1 goalie find a good tandem and count more on the developing offense to make up any difference by outscoring other teams
  16. good that we were all told that the money received for alfonzo was going to be spent on operating the team and development and that mls monitors this sort of thing but there really is little need for them to do so as we can all clearly see how that money is(n't) being used
  17. with all those plume clouds with each of the explosions i'm confident they have the radiation issue completely under control already and things are again back to normal
  18. yes actually read this thread see the additional information that was already coming to light this investigation went cold/stale except for some interest from a reporter in florida until he was again arrested and charged in nyc i'm not saying that everyone would be fully pursued but making things uncomfortable for some of them for a while would have indicated progress
  19. let's not be naive with epstein out of the picture the investigation stalls and the rest are granted cover and nothing further is done or examined the light on this issue is now turned off the vast number of others are left alone and will not be forced to account for their behaviour
  20. sorry everyone most of these projections are crazy nuckleheads scored 225 goals last season so maybe first decide how much better their offensive prowess will be i think they will be better.. quite a bit .. 30 goals better... that is more then 10%, closer to 15% not gonna break it down by player but i did a quick total of solinar's projections - he says 342 goals.. that is an increase of almost 120 goals.... um.. let's get real tampa was a great offensive team and scored 325 if the nucks score 25 to 30 more goals as a team and get a little tighter defensively that'll net them an additional 7 - 10 wins and gives them a point total in the mid to high 90s that would be a huge improvement
  21. he just needs 10 games with mtl to hit 1000 games played for that team i think just from a ticket sales and promotional stand point signing him to play another 10 games in montreal is a bit of a no brainer few players have hit that number for the franchise montreal has a pretty expansive history and markov hitting 1000 games just enriches it a touch
  22. well that is really not how the financial incentives and rewards of mls work the real money is not made on ticket sales caps need to field a team to be entitled to the other perks -money brought in by mls marketing efforts -share of mls expansion fees -transfer fee profits from developing players -increase in the value of the club the team player budget is kept low to minimize this expense with minimal regard to fans but with regard to fulfilling ownership obligations to field an mls team (barely) so these other pots of money can be continually accessed that is what this mls whitecap team is really all about
  23. he is waiting for timrafan to effectively motivate another team's fan base to lobby to trade for him since his views are so compelling jb is holding out for a 1st round pick for this swedish gem of a player
  24. really ?? a rule of these boards requires that you post the article but personalize my comments all you wish if that makes you feel better
×
×
  • Create New...