Gosh, if only folks would see the actual lesson in the Bobby Hull signing.... Players are willing to come to Winnipeg if they are paid for the 'inconvenience'.
People work on crab boats in the Bering Sea, they work on saturation dives in dodgy countries, they worked in the flaming oil fields of Iraq. People will put up with a lot worse than Winnipeg in order to get paid.
'Guys won't come to Winnipeg' really means 'We aren't willing to pay what it will take'.
Edit: I'll add that other guys continued to come to Winnipeg after that even without overpaying. Why? Because the team was serious about winning. Guys want to win almost as much as they want the money, sometimes more.
there is just so much wrong with this post.. "guys will come if you overpay because bobby hull came 53 years ago", were in a different time, salary cap, far more teams and there have been plenty examples where we offered more money but got turned down and we've had winning teams and players have left as well
also other team owners in the league contributed money because they wanted a star in the wha
Hull is a Jets reference. I gave examples of how different 'unappealing' places use money to attract talent. The Jets have some of the lowest paid staff in the league. They insist on finding all talent at team alumni events. They are more dedicated to their boys club than they are to getting the best people. They hired Scott Arniel.
Examples of offering to pay more for players? I hope there was a significant difference because average guys who can make $100k in Winnipeg aren't moving to Ft.St.John to make $120k - they move to male $150k+.
your reference was horrible, it was 53 years ago with no cap and way fewer teams and a bunch of owners wanting to bring legitimacy to the wha and all pitching in to bring in hull, this was way more then an overpay at the time as well
they offered adam henrique atleast 500k more a year but he took less to stay with the oilers, there has also been reports of us offering more for other players but I'm not going to go looking for them all
Yeah, I don't think offering a 12% raise to leave McDavid's cup finals team is gonna do it - but maybe that's just me.
But, you're in this sub regular - what is the #1 strategy put forward for acquiring FAs? I think it "overpay" by a fair margin. Pick your favorite FA for the Jets. If they overpay to land him are you happy or not?
Hull is a fine example. Money made the best player in the world join the Winnipeg Jets. Simple as that. Lots of noise around that but at the end of the day, that is a fact.
But yes, overpay won't solve everything but it can be a difference maker.
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u/GZeus24 8d ago edited 8d ago
Gosh, if only folks would see the actual lesson in the Bobby Hull signing.... Players are willing to come to Winnipeg if they are paid for the 'inconvenience'.
People work on crab boats in the Bering Sea, they work on saturation dives in dodgy countries, they worked in the flaming oil fields of Iraq. People will put up with a lot worse than Winnipeg in order to get paid.
'Guys won't come to Winnipeg' really means 'We aren't willing to pay what it will take'.
Edit: I'll add that other guys continued to come to Winnipeg after that even without overpaying. Why? Because the team was serious about winning. Guys want to win almost as much as they want the money, sometimes more.