Canada’s Tax Bite Is Squeezing NHL Teams North of the Border

Canada’s teams keep running into the same old problem, and it has nothing to do with the salary cap for once. The tax issue is becoming one of those quiet front-office headaches that everyone inside the league knows about but nobody wants to turn into a full-blown public brawl. It affects how clubs build, retain, and sell their pitch to players, which is the part fans rarely see until a roster starts leaking talent.