There they go again.
The owners, management people, compliant messengers in my business, there they go again throwing around the term “loophole” to define a business practice permissible under the collective bargaining agreement used by wealthy team ownership to sign a player.
There they went again, whining when the Maple Leafs’ five-year, $58.17 million second contract to Auston Matthews featured $54.52 million in bonuses, or 93.725 percent of the total. And this just months after Toronto brought home 2018 free agent John Tavares with a seven-year, $77 million contract containing $70.89 million in bonuses, or 92.06 percent of the sum.