Bruins Run Up $150,000 Bar Tab at MGM Grand

to put it in perspective:

someone said tab was $26K per head

Assume these guys make $10mm per year (this may be offer, in either direction, i realize). This implies they make 200x what the average American earns (~$50K).

So $26K for a night of drinking for a professional athlete = $130 night out for American with median income
 


Sonny Forelli said:
so 6 people who likely make millions per year in contracts and millions more in endorsement deals spend $30k each after winning what is often a once in a lifetime event?

seems to me a lot 'sounder' a financial decision than the scores of Americans who make $41k/year and finance some big SUV equal to their gross pay before any taxes/interest for 96 months.

But call me crazy.

(btw at $5M/year $30k is .6% of your income - which is equal to $250 @ $41k/year). Don't tell me people making that don't have a big 'celebration' night where they buy dinner/drinks and run up a $250 bill. It's all relative)
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^this.
 
Tim Thomas, 6 mil this year
Zdeno Chara, 8.5 mil
Patrice Bergeron, 5.75 mil
Milan Lucic, 4 mil
Brad Marchand 765,000 (will get 3-5 mil when resigning)
Shawn Thornton, 825, 000

Total = over 24 million just this year.


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In get that it`s not really such a huge amount of money for them, but is there any way they could actually get that much value out of a bottle of champagne, as good as it may be? For me to pay way more than average for a drink, it`s gotta be some life changing shit. I can afford a $20 drink or even a $100 drink, but if I can enjoy a drink for $7 then a drink really only has $7 or value to me. Paying $20 or $100 I`d feel like there`s no way I could be getting that much value for the drink. Unless there were strippers or something.
 
Bombastic said:
In get that it`s not really such a huge amount of money for them, but is there any way they could actually get that much value out of a bottle of champagne, as good as it may be? For me to pay way more than average for a drink, it`s gotta be some life changing shit. I can afford a $20 drink or even a $100 drink, but if I can enjoy a drink for $7 then a drink really only has $7 or value to me. Paying $20 or $100 I`d feel like there`s no way I could be getting that much value for the drink. Unless there were strippers or something.
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That's because you're broke.

And I'm pretty sure they would all agree it was a stupid financial decision, but they just won the fucking Stanley Cup. They don't need to justify anything. And dropping 100k on a bottle is a night they will never forget... that's the whole point.

No one cares about value per drink when you're a multi-millionaire and celebrating an achievement that hasn't been accomplished for like 40 years. lol
 
The only value I would give it; Is the Marketing Value for the team and the sport. Imagine how many front page ads they bought today.
100k is cheap in that case.
 
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Bombastic said:
In get that it`s not really such a huge amount of money for them, but is there any way they could actually get that much value out of a bottle of champagne, as good as it may be? For me to pay way more than average for a drink, it`s gotta be some life changing shit. I can afford a $20 drink or even a $100 drink, but if I can enjoy a drink for $7 then a drink really only has $7 or value to me. Paying $20 or $100 I`d feel like there`s no way I could be getting that much value for the drink. Unless there were strippers or something.
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I agree- I would've paper-bagged in 5 liters of Franzia white-zin in a box and sat with a headlamp on reading 'the millionaire next door' all night while sneaking pours and snickering to myself about my $0.38 drink values while secretly crying inside that those being 'wasteful' looked like they were having a lot more fun.

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2010-2011 Season top salaries

The team salary cap is $56.8 million. No player can earn more than $11.36 million.

Vincent Lecavalier (Tampa Bay Lightning) $10 million
Sidney Crosby (Pittsburgh Penguins) $8.7million
Evgeni Malkin (Pittsburgh Penguins) $9 million
Alexander Ovechkin (Washington Capitals) $9 million
Chris Drury (New York Rangers) $8.05 million

Top NBA players make about double that, Kobe makes $24MM a year.

While not at NBA level, that is fat money. Plus NHL players will have longer careers and they are white so they will not blow it all like the monkeys in the NBA.
 
danke said:
Lebron does that in one night in Miami. Literally.

NBA money > NHL money
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"In June 2011 Mark Cubanhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Cuban spent $90,000 on a 15 liter bottle (20 regular sized bottles) of Armand de Brignac in celebration of the the Dallas Mavericks' NBA Championshiphttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_de_Brignac#cite_note-7. A week later, the Boston Bruins "one-upped" the Mavericks' celebration by purchasing a 30 liter bottle of Ace of Spades "Midas" for $100,000. At the time of the purchases, the Midas bottle was one of six bottles in the worldhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_de_Brignac#cite_note-8."

The Irony...
 
That is a pretty impressive bar tab for 6 people. I am sure there were others with them but still, hockey players can hold their liquor.

Oh and Marchand = PIMP

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Da Capo said:
That is a pretty impressive bar tab for 6 people. I am sure there were others with them but still, hockey players can hold their liquor.

Oh and Marchand = PIMP

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Pimp? I dunno... any doofus with a table can pull any kinda ass back like those ladies.

EDIT: And that's even excluding the fact that girls cream over any type of pro/semi pro athlete. And I... I decided the blonde in the middle is extremely attractive.
 
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