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Originally Posted by Forsead
If we start taking account of all the risks before getting to the NHL, we will need to account all the risk owners by financial investment to get to the kind of money needed to own an NHL franchise, it work both ways.
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The risk owners take is that they might make or less money from owning a franchise than from whatever else they would put their money in instead. The risks from their earlier operations doesn't factor in since they were already rewarded for those earlier operations.
The risk teens make is that they're giving up a relatively safe bet, and taking on the risk of debilitating health conditions, to try and make the NHL. Those are not independent risks, and they would never be worthwhile if only for an ECHL salary of ~$350/week or an AHL salary of ~$150,000/year for three years. All those risks are taken to try and make the NHL as a productive and well-compensated player..Leblanc would have probably stayed at Harvard if he had no shot at an NHL career.
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Originally Posted by Forsead
In bold, you can study later in life...and no even if they put all their effort in it, it doesn't mean all peoples could study far and that would be a safe bet.
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You can study later in life, but a lot of doors tend to be closed. Employers and many programs discriminate against "mature" applicants, and you don't make as many connections. Plus there are the possible debilitating health problems.
I personally find that age discrimination unfortunate, but I don't make the rules.
There are no perfectly safe bets in life.