What We Learned: It's Not the Taxes, It's the Talent for good teams

You know what they say about idle hands. It also applies to idle minds in the hockey world.

Because there's almost a week between the end of the Conference Finals and the start of the Stanley Cup Final, people decided they needed something to talk about and once again landed on how crazy it is that some states where good NHL teams play don't charge income tax.

Same old song and dance. "It's an unfair advantage! The NHL should do something about it! This needs to be addressed in the next CBA!"

I'm not going to go so far as to say this stuff doesn't matter, because it obviously does. It allows teams to sign guys for, I dunno, 5-10 percent less than they might get on the open market. And while that doesn't matter on one contract, necessarily, if you can apply it to four, six, eight deals, sudden