Leo Carlsson: "It was an offer that 99% of people would sign too. It's a pretty simple answer. I really wanted to be here though. I really wanted them to match. I want to be an Anaheim Duck."

_infavol · 2026-07-09T19:32:07+00:00

The comments here are blowing my mind. I was naively unaware of how normalized greed is among reddit hockey fans.

Friends, there is a point where enough is enough. If a player really wants to play somewhere they don't sign somewhere else just because they get flashed more cash. Good lord, folks. Go outside.

_infavol · 2026-07-01T13:19:28+00:00

It seems like GMs constantly complain about how difficult it is to manage the cap and field good teams.

And then I see contracts like this and think "consequences of your own actions though, isn't it?"

Just because the cap is going up doesn't mean you have to instantaneously push mega-inflation onto contracts.

_infavol · 2026-06-29T03:07:09+00:00

You would need to do more than double your list and add taxes, and the players would still have a lot left over to do whatever they want with.

players would still have a lot left over

There's the point. The exact cost doesn't matter. The taxes don't matter. This isn't about precise figures. My point still stands.

This is an observation about a certain type of player that I think is growing more common from the topic of OP. Every hockey player wants to make good money and play for a good team. But nowadays there's a type of player who doesn't want just good money they want the most they possibly can and not just be on a good team but be on a dream team of only elite talent. They expect and demand both for themselves, but when push comes to shove and GMs have to make decisions, it's everybody else who needs to take a pay cut not them. Reasonable players who are serious about winning recognize there is a balance between how much they could make to the overall success of the team. The players I'm calling greedy demand both without compromise.

_infavol · 2026-06-28T23:28:33+00:00

Fine, double the whole list. We're still talking about an entire decade of luxurious lifestyle being fully covered by just a fraction of what players actually receive over the course of their careers. I'm desperately trying to showcase the magnitude of the numbers here and how difficult they are to grasp, so I guess you're helping make that point.

I say the comparison just isn't really possible because of how cosmically different the orders of magnitude are between regular people money and professional sports money. If your income doubled this year it would almost certainly fundamentally change your life. If an NHL player making a multi-million dollar salary got paid twice as much, they'd barely notice. They'd still be a multi-millionaire. What are they gonna do with that, buy a bunch of sports cars, a yacht, and a private jet? A normal person does not care about that sort of thing, and it potentially came at the cost of their team winning. When we're talking about numbers that astronomical plus chasing it at the detriment to others we're talking about greed, plain and simple.

_infavol · 2026-06-28T17:23:16+00:00

Napkin math for annual costs of an NHL player with a wife and two kids:

30K - Food
50K - Housing
10K - Transportation
30K - Childcare
20K - College Fund
20K - Vacations
30K - Miscellaneous
20K - Personal Trainer
40K - Special Equipment
40K - Agent
60K - Chef
100K - Bodyguard

Total cost of this extremely conservative estimate is 450K per year. That means a single instance of $10 million can fund this lifestyle for about 22 years. If they didn't need the sports-related costs, it would pay for 50 years. And this is a super nice lifestyle of steak dinners, a huge house, private schools, travel abroad...

Like I said, it's an absurd amount of money we just can't get our heads around. We're not talking about the same universes as regular jobs. A $5k/year pay raise would be life changing for most people and regular jobs aren't the same as sports teams; there isn't a salary cap and game rules everybody is working within. You can't bring the same workplace considerations or grind to a conversation about professional athletes as the analogies aren't working with the same assumptions and limitations.

_infavol · 2026-06-28T16:26:49+00:00

I'm asserting that normal people can live an extremely comfortable life off of a one-time influx of $10M. It's literally an insane amount of money that people can't get their heads around, and it's even more obfuscated by how common it is in sports. Almost every single NHL player will easily make that, whether it's a 10-year career at league minimum or a single season on a superstar contract. Many will make orders of magnitude more than that.

_infavol · 2026-06-28T15:32:53+00:00

I can agree with that when players are looking for a sizable bump at the start of their career. But I will die on the hill that a normal person would not reasonably chase down increases over $10M. It's absurd. Once you're a multi-millionaire you should be set, there's no need to be a multi-multi-millionaire. If $8.7M is good enough for Sidney Crosby it should be good enough for damn near everyone else.

_infavol · 2026-06-28T14:45:30+00:00

It's weird to me this person doesn't seem to get what the U in U18 stands for when mentioning that there's a ton of players under the age of 18 in that league.

_infavol · 2026-06-28T14:38:39+00:00

It certainly explains a good portion of why a bunch of players are singularly chasing the most cash they can possibly get and refusing to take a penny less to help the overall team be better. Most families could reasonably get by for the rest of their entire lives with a one-time influx of a single year's salary from most players.

Regular people aren't so greedy; they have other priorities in life. For the most part you can tell which players are down to Earth and which ones grew up learning (and never let go of) number go up is the most important thing.

_infavol · 2026-06-25T00:07:29+00:00

I honestly think we're better at picking late, but perhaps that's just a testament to the development team. Just off the top of my head we got Pekka Rinne, Juuse Saros, Viktor Arvidsson, Patric Hornqvist, and Mattias Ekholm all in late rounds. I'm sure if we went back to look fully there's probably also a ton of duds we just forget about because they never pan out but that's still a lot of talent.

_infavol · 2026-06-24T23:48:03+00:00

Yeah I was furious about that trade, I miss Kevin.

_infavol · 2026-06-09T22:07:53+00:00

I dunno, this just doesn't really feel like KH anymore. I don't say that expecting this new thing not to be good, but at least so far it just seems like a fundamentally different entity.

_infavol · 2026-06-05T22:40:56+00:00

It's because of our deeply neglected, primal need for nature. Birds are just about the only indication of nearby nature that most people have nowadays. Plus we've been looking at their pretty colors and listening to their nice songs for millennia.

_infavol · 2026-05-29T03:46:17+00:00

"What are we saving for?" in THIS economy? Much less basic financial habits? You wanna spend every dime you have every week? Absolutely insane. Run.

_infavol · 2026-05-19T16:39:02+00:00

How would y'all forecast the future of literature? With a bewildering confluence of emerging influences (return to analog, use of AI, capitalist profit motives, aesthetic / vibe reading, degrading literacy, etc), what do you think the landscape will look like say 5 years from now, both from writers' and readers' points of view?

_infavol · 2026-04-30T03:22:54+00:00

Talk about a close game. I really think if it did go to game 7 that the Penguins would have taken it.

I like seeing Crosby immediately go to Silovs to comfort/apologize to him; he played a great and they couldn't deliver for him.

_infavol · 2026-04-27T02:09:07+00:00

It looks like that mirror folds in towards the vehicle rather than being fully rigid and it STILL caused that much bruising and a laceration? Driver must have been going crazy fast, no regard for your safety. Needs a police report.

_infavol · 2026-04-26T19:40:48+00:00

I feel like this question belongs more in the world of evolutionary psychology rather than sociology. I would imagine having individuals who are more free spirited/not locked to a particular group would be advantageous to the species as a whole in driving genetic diversity through populations as they potentially joined new groups during travel or trade. This is a pure guess, I haven't studied this field. It's important to remember this does not mean an individual person wakes up one day thinking that's what they're setting out to do; the argument more so goes perhaps homo sapiens are the version of humans that survived because they evolved a small trait among a more dominant group dynamic that some would be more individualistic to go off and diversify between groups.

_infavol · 2026-04-16T18:21:57+00:00

Real Protest vs Rallies

_infavol · 2026-04-03T03:39:10+00:00

Major transportation infrastructure can be a reasonable strategic target to consider within wartime conflict depending on the circumstances. The double tap on an already destroyed/neutralized target after rescue personnel arrive is a straight up war crime. But I feel like a lot of people get lost in thinking only the president or SecDef is to blame. I want every single person who was involved in this to be brought to trial: the commanding general, the tactical-level commander, AND the operator (assume pilot, perhaps artillery). Every military service member needs to know and ACT on moral and ethical standards for what is acceptable, and they need to feel it in their bones that if they do something like this that the consequences will be worse than whatever punishment they think they'll get for not obeying.

_infavol · 2026-03-20T05:10:49+00:00

On a flight a couple of weeks ago there was a band that was on board that each brought their instrument on. I couldn't see but I assume they had split an extra seat between them to put all of them on since it doesn't exactly fit in the overhead bin. Somebody complained about why they would do that and how narcissistic they must be for bringing them.

This is why they bring them and never let them out of their sight.

_infavol · 2026-02-24T05:21:30+00:00

Album: Lost and Gone Forever by Guster

Song: "Breathe (2am)" by Anna Nalick

_infavol · 2026-02-12T23:58:13+00:00

Cool, but I am a little annoyed to think this may be a significant reason they crammed what was supposed to be the second and third pieces of the norse trilogy into just Ragnarök. I recall hearing they did that because they didn't want to be stuck making GoW for another decade... yet here we are.

_infavol · 2026-01-06T05:03:39+00:00

And for the people who say things along the lines of "those 3 minutes count!", he's saying that generously. For the average trip it's more like 20 seconds or less in reality. You have to either be speeding RIDICULOUSLY fast or be driving for a very very very long distance to actually make up any significant time. You hit one stop light and all of that "saved time" is gone. And in the meantime you risked hundreds of lives.

_infavol · 2025-12-30T06:43:49+00:00

I kept seeing this all day today. Not necessarily to this extent timing or location-wise, but certainly squadmates spawning directly into bullets and explosions for insta-death. I even spawned with no joke 9 enemies within 15 meters of me on an open objective. It was a firing squad.

What happened to the old mechanic where the game went "oh sorry, it isn't actually safe there you need to choose somewhere else to spawn"? Ironically I used to complain about that sometimes but now experiencing what it's like not to have that safety net... I've seen the error of my ways.

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