It's not a magnet as in all of a sudden the Carolina Hurricanes will spend 49 million. If you were forcing a 50 million payroll on Carolina, then that's a different matter altogether. You're talking about a league that had 2.1 billion in revenue in its last season. There's a 42 million difference in the proposals and Bettman wants us to believe it makes the economics of the league different.
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