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There’s a perception that Commish Gary Bettman will not have a Canadian team win the Stanley Cup. Jets ownership isn’t all in on trying to win the Cup. GM Chevy is too cautious in his job. A head coach hire is based on loyalty. The team is too conservative. Mark Chipman is always crying poverty.

All the players would probably be 'incorporated', and have a lot of advice from accountants, lawyers, etc. Thus, they would not be paying 50% in taxes...that'd be impossible. They should be, and so should all rich people, but I would think that as rich and connected citizens that they could get away with it (if they are smart). So, that argument is crap. Canadians are NOT taxed too much because we get much needed services from those taxes (we could start to allocate those resources better, but that'd probably mean a more centralized government and citizens here are so regionalized). In the USA you are still inadvertently taxed, it is just private taxes...you have to pay for services provided by private companies (more things are provided by private corporations in the USA). Which also makes life more expensive than in other developed countries (ex. paying for health care premiums). As a rich person this may not be an issue, but for a majority of citizens it is less than ideal. The cold is bull (especially since some cities are much more humid, aka Montreal and Ottawa). They play only half a season there. Some live year round others go home for the duration of the year (and our Summers are getting hot!) One issue may be that Winnipeg is a small city to go to and it is not close to other markets...that would be the only issue I see. Players that love the outdoors really enjoy playing/living in Winnipeg (Alex Iafallo).

the salary cap should be calculated on a sliding scale which is determined by the tax burdens of each team. buttman knows it and so do the 78% of the league that is south of the 49th. the NHL is a bush league till they make this right.

I wish the NHL had a mechanism in place that pooled all player taxes together, as a percentage of all player income, and withdrew that percentage from all players to cover the tax bill in both Canada and the USA. It would level the playing field for all teams and taxes would no longer influence their choice of where to play

I've been to almost every major north American city east, north and south of Denver. Winnipeg is by far the worst city I've ever been to. Filthy, expensive, everyone is poor, houses are in a irreparable state, roads are horrible, nobody has a clue how to drive, plus half the city can't even speak English, and the ones that don't, hate you for speaking English. I wouldn't send my enemies of war to Winnipeg, in fear of receiving a inhumane confinment conditions charge.

That god for Andrew copp going to the conference finals 🙏 no lambert if that doesn’t happen

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I love the music

Nobody wants to sign with the Winnipeg Jets? Tell that to Mathieu Perreault and Paul Stastny- among other players! Clickbait much?

i was at the hat trick game 52, 53, 54. 54 came seconds into the 3rd period, my buddy was in the beer line still. lol

The Jets owners are just like the Cleveland Browns owners. Happy to make the playoffs on the cheap and soak the public for their hard earned cash.

Who cares? We’ve given him enough $$R$$$piss off, we can’t afford to eat.

Brutal weather doesn't help...

You please no one ☝️ n there 30s

Tax situation in Canada is brutal and takes about 50% of their salary 😮🙄

Great video. I think not signing in Winnipeg because it's "shit and dangerous" IMO is a lame reason, yes we don't have nightlife, we have a bad homeless problem but I was in Halifax this past Thanksgiving and saw a few tents spread out their downtown, it's not a Winnipeg thing! Taxes and cold weather are more believable.

Would be sick if Barlow is ready to go up to the bigs.

The Canadian owners along with the high tax owners from US States to get together and force the salary cap to be net, not gross. I mean it's what you take home that matters.

If your intent was to deflate and depress me you succeeded….

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The Jets will deny this. Fuck the NHL

This guy needs a better tax advisor/lawyer. This video certainly qualifies as mis-information. Failures to address issues and/or adjust to realities will spread like wildfire amongst players. The issues are internal.. FA's are CHOOSING to go to Edmonton Toronto and even (the worst tax place) Montreal and Vancouver.

Totally true. We just don’t have the money to get great players that’s why we’ll always be a mediocre team

Its simple. Wpg is Canadas asshole and taxes.

Players get paid in USD. Goes a long way in Canada. Imagine playing a winter sport in a place that actually has winter? Great organization. Affordable city. Plenty to do. And no one signs in Winnipeg? Laurent Brossoitx2 Mark Scheifele Blake Wheeler Connor Hellebuyck Josh Morrissey Kyle Connor Nikolaj Ehlers Plus countless other extensions. NHL players are mostly just rich kids from rich homes that want to be celebrities.

Laine doesnt suck ..... YOUR ONLY AS GOOD AT YOUR TEAMMATES ......

remember when Patty said our locker room would be amazing if we got rid of ONE player ? .... lets RESIGN buff.... Laine just misses Ehlers ......

Taxes. The cold is bull. They play only half a season there. Some live year round others go home for the duration of the year.

develop team play with natural flow up and down ice, whoever can sign?

Wow..half of the salary is gone from taxes is just crazy and I don't blame the players for not coming to Canada ! 😮😮😮🙄

You hit the nail on the head. I’ve been saying the tax part for years. Calgary and Edmonton are not exactly picnic’s in the winter, but both cities are more economically vibrant and have a tax regime that is considerably cheaper than Winnipeg.

Yes But the exchange rate add back about 30% because players are pay in USD and Canada is a lot safe the raise a family.

Mb is a welfare province therefore lots of taxes incurred by these well paid individuals. I sure as hell wouldn't play here.

If I was an nhler , I wouldn't want to be here either. Racist city against natives here it's shameful.

FYI, you tax estimations were just wrong. Players pay taxes based on where they are playing on any given night. Their taxes each year are actually a fucking novel because they have to submit forms for every state and province they played in that year as well as U.S. and Canada. So while they will pay more than a Vegas player because they are going to play 41 games at home in Winnipeg, it's not as big of a difference as you showed. SDPN's show with an agent, Agent Provocateur, has a good episode on how it all shakes out. They also showed how it all doesnt matter as much as people talk about anyways. They pay the best accountants available to put their money into various investment vehicles to defer taxes to when they move to florida in retirement anyway.

Bad haircuts.

I think it’s incredible that Winnipeg can ice such a great team despite the cold, crime and taxes. Imagine how good they could be without the impediments

All other problems are fixable except for TAXES! Judging by your introduction I thought you were going to skip that, but you did a good job with the comparisons. Does that mean a player making 10 mil a season would pay 5 million a year? All that money to pay for a bloated bureaucracy in both local and federal woke programs that do jack shit for anyone. God we are all dying a slow death up here...... how depressing.

All of the misgivings this off-season are due to the lens of which the players are seen through - which is grading and deploying players based on ability or 'value' rather than valuing people based on performance. Guys like Mony, Ehlers, Brossoit, Schmidt, Dylan are apparently expendable, whereas Scheif, Connor, Helle, Pionk, DeMelo are considered indispensable. But is that really reality? The 'worse' group is actually more dynamic, and head to head I'd take Mony and Ehlers over Scheif Connor, and Brossoit over Helle. For the same reason why we saw Corry Perry in another Stanley Cup final. That reason is the same reason why communism fails in every attempt, and Donald Trump can be president of the United States. It's not who you think is the nicest guy, with the most talent who does the best, it the guy who doesn't take no for an answer and breaks the rules who wins.

He knows Americans dont want to play here but continues to draft them instead of WHL players. Readon is the Jets have to pay 50k to the junior team if the player is signed.

The league needs to address this disparity.

I think it is the toxicity as well of the locker room. It is no secret how Scheifele,, Wheeler and others treated Patrick Laine. Even the toxic remarks of the goalie when PLD got traded was a red flag. They have a few bad apples in the room. The rest of the leagues players do not want the stress. I think if they worked on changing their culture a bit , It would go a long way. People can handle the cold and taxes if the team atmosphere is awesome. If it is a stressful bully fest of jocks though, Players will seek other places.

you only get taxed for home games tho so

If we want an even playing field (err, paying field.....eerr, paying ice??) we would implement a cap system that normalizes for differences in taxation in different locations so the take-home for each player is the exact same regardless of where they're playing. That would be a huge help. Of course that won't happen, because the owners in the locations Gary wants the NHL to shine all have low or no state income taxes and much lower taxes overall. How else can we compete with that?

Very good video for fans who don't understand Even Nashville 0% Tampa,Florida,Vegas. Other teams have big advantages. Not to mention house prices,schooling family life,weather. We are constantly murder capital or top 2 in Canada. I know die hard winnipegers think their homes best but we are far behind other places. Even politics US and Canada have different issues. US some states more conservative or Liberal say Texas vs Cali or Southern Ontario vs Alberta

Great video- but that background music is weird!!

Nobody wants to play for the Jets because Winnipeg is a terrible place to live live

That's treaty land they sould not pay taxes on this place everyone one will want to play for the jets

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Great work and well thought out video. Keep it up!