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Im not sure if you would be allowed to wear Pride tape in the NFL on gameday.
WHL - World Hockey League (24 Team - Daily H2H)
Maine Moose 2021-2022
2019 WHL GM of the Year #Supersoft
I was like, no way this is true. I had to look. Omg, that's insane. Here's the top 5 salaries from 2003-04 season:
Peter Forsberg - $11,000,000
Jaromir Jagr - $11,000,000
Keith Tkachuk - $10,000,000
Joe Sakic - $9,880,939
Chris Pronger - $9,500,000
Average Top 5: $10,276,187.80
Top 5 salaries from 2023-24:
Nathan MacKinnon - $16,000,000
David Pastrnak - $13,000,000
Dougie Hamilton - $12,600,000
Kirill Kaprizov - $12,500,000
Seth Jones - $12,500,000
Average Top 5: $13,320,000
29.62% increase.
NBA comparisson:
2003-04 Top 5 Average: $20,680,358.00
2023-24 Top 5 Average: $48,477,419.60
129.577% increase.
The equivalent increase would be like the top 5 average for NHLers would be like $23,000,000.
12 Team, H2H, Keep 6 (in Bold)
G, A, Pts, PPP, FW, SOG, Hits, Blocks
W, Saves, S%, GAA, Game Started
2C, 2LW, 2RW, 4D, 1Util, 2G, 5BN, 2IR, 1IR+, 1NA
C: Horvat, Trocheck
LW: J. Robertson, Byfield (C), Guenther
RW: Pavelski (C), Giroux (C), Svechnikov (LW)
D: Fox, Makar, Bouchard, Morrissey, Gudas
Util: Meier (LW, RW)
G: Oettinger, Georgiev, Samsonov, Woll
12 Team, H2H, Keep 6 (in Bold)
G, A, Pts, PPP, FW, SOG, Hits, Blocks
W, Saves, S%, GAA, Game Started
2C, 2LW, 2RW, 4D, 1Util, 2G, 5BN, 2IR, 1IR+, 1NA
C: Horvat, Trocheck
LW: J. Robertson, Byfield (C), Guenther
RW: Pavelski (C), Giroux (C), Svechnikov (LW)
D: Fox, Makar, Bouchard, Morrissey, Gudas
Util: Meier (LW, RW)
G: Oettinger, Georgiev, Samsonov, Woll
And that's with a big jump from the new Mackinnon contract.
Top 5 salaries from 2022-2023:
Tyler Seguin - $13,000,000
Artemi Panarin - $12,500,000
Aleksander Barkov - $12,000,000
Erik Karlsson - $12,000,000
Connor McDavid - $12,000,000
Average Top 5 - $12,300,000
19.69% increase.
Yea, I'm sure players are just thrilled about it.
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Great so we have 2 things that don't change based on which political party is in power but we have 1 thing the US military funded sports leagues to keep doing after 9-11, so we have one action that is not political (putting tape on a hockey stick) and one thing that is political (paid endorsement of nationalism). Of note, before anyone tries a gotcha, the military no longer pays for forced nationalism because the got in trouble from DoD for doing so, however the national anthem inherently promotes nationalism, which inherently is political.