The Boston Bruins’ championship drought drought can partly be blamed on Massachusetts’ tax policies, according to a business advocacy group.
Florida and Nevada do not have a state income tax. Neither does Texas, which helped the Dallas Stars amass enough talent to appear in the Cup final in 2020, the group noted. Had Marchand played for a team in either Nevada, Washington State, Florida or Texas, he would have walked home with $3.3 million, or around $400,000 more, according to MOA.David Pastrnak, the Bruins’ star scorer, is also making a financial sacrifice by staying in Boston.
The Nashville Predators, an expansion team which joined the National Hockey League in 1998, reached the final round in 2017. The team’s home state, Tennessee, does not levy an income tax.In the most recent free agency period preceding this season, six teams that play in states with no income tax — Nashville, Florida, Tampa Bay, Dallas, Vegas and Seattle — combined to spend nearly a quarter of the more than $1 billion in aggregate contracts that were signed this past summer.