Brian Burke

It is... The cap hit is $6 million.

For Binnington.

here's the other thing you wrote about this with with the the Ottawa Senators situation and Jason Robertson like that thing I keep saying like until like this has been going on for a long time here and these two sides are still apart I know that Jim Nill mentioned that there's no there's no drop dead here I don't think he wants us to go to arbitration if I'm putting on a sort of decoder ring

I'm thinking, okay, he wants this done by the draft.

Like one way or the other.

And here's the thing that I keep coming back to.

What's the Rantanen deal in Canada?

Because if he's turned that down and he wants more than the Rantanen deal, that's like negotiating with a no-tax state team.

What is it in Canada?

So Brady Kachuk goes to the Florida Panthers, automatically he makes more money.

So he goes to a no-tax state here.

Anyone going to Canada is going to be taxed depending on the province.

Just as a quick off-ramp here,

What I've always wondered about, and there are people that are much smarter than me who are going to tell me why this is a dumb idea, and I get it, and here it comes on Twitter in three, two, one, go.

But when calculating the salary cap per player, in order to compensate for various levels of taxation in different markets, do you know if there's ever been a conversation around judging the salary cap hit, not based on gross, but based on net?

So after, like after taxations, that is your action.

That becomes, but like for the purposes of like putting your team together, so there can be no advantage from team to team, whether you play in Montreal or you play with the Florida Panthers, that it's the net, not the gross.

I don't know if the NHL wants to go down because it's really confusing.

But the other option is this.

The other option is this.