why do you keep assuming these guys are ok with being 4th liners?
20 goal scorers aren't OK with being 4th line players.
You aren't talking about a guy who's made a career blocking shots, checking, dropping gloves and that's basically it. You just assume they are ok with it because that's their current predicament. These guys are hockey players. Not bench warmers. They want to play. And while I get the whole family thing. As they stay 4th liners their career basically ends there. No guy in basically the end of their hockey prime wants their careers last best years ending up on the bench.

The players signed for less not because of TB but because of the tax rate. They can keep their tax rate.

TN is not the best tax value state. I don't know where you get that idea. TN has a 6% state income tax. Their only tax breaks are in investments.



You don't compete for a cup while sitting on the bench as a 4th liner. I don't know why you don't get that. No one dreams of sitting on the bench during the stanley cup. That's not what guys play for.
You don't really seem to get it. Their role is going going gone.
If they sit on the bench, their career is basically over. Because they aren't going to magically get more ice time here. No guy at 28 or 29 or whatever wants their career to end. They want to play. They are still capable of playing. Sooner rather than later these guys are going to be moved. They will be asked to waive. If not this off season then most likely for the expansion draft where they get little choice of their move.
You just assume guys will say no. That they don't mind not playing. I find that hard to believe.

Why do you assume they're not? Do you work for a from office? Do you have insider information that you can share with the rest of us?

Not if they go to a state that has state tax, and there's no guarantee that they can go to another one that does not.

Actually, I've looked into it and players in Nashville take home the most money.

You absolutely can compete for a cup while playing on a fourth line how do you figure you can't? I don't know why you don't get that some players are happy where they are and don't want to uproot their families and their lives. And like I said there's no guarantee they would get more ice time on another team so why would they want to take the risk? Also, 4th liners still play during the playoffs just maybe not as much. Could they agree to waive...sure but it seems unlikely and I think that was the point that @oneX was trying to make. And why do you assume their careers will end because they play the fourth line? They can be asked to waive that doesn't mean that they have to they have the right to say no...how do you not understand that? And if they have a NTC then they have to be protected for the expansion draft.

Not everyone is going to get top 6 minutes, it's a fact. Some players on that Tampa team should be smart enough to recognize that. Even getting just 3rd and 4th line minutes on a good team that has a very good chance at winning multiple rounds is better than being traded to a team that doesn't have the same aspirations.

no actually it's not.

I'm done arguing with you. You are clueless.
You are going to make up imaginary tax rates. Shows how clueless you are.
0% state income tax, vs 6% state income tax.
it's not really rocket science.

Talk to @mondo he sent me the link

Says the guy who claims you can't win a cup playing on the 4h line lol.

He's clueless and calls others clueless. Que the clown music. Lol

I picked up on that too lol. These people are like talking to a brick wall...waste of time.

I know, your idea of winning a cup is being a passenger. You'd make a great NBA bench warmer. You could be the guy handing everyone a towel and claiming you won.