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Pascal Leclaire Ottawa Senators 2010-2011 NHL statistics
During the 2010/2011 NHL season, Pascal Leclaire played goaltender for the Ottawa Senators, wearing number 33. His salary for the time he spent on the ice that season was reportedly $4,800,000. The total team salary for the Ottawa Senators was reportedly $50,083,333, so his salary was about 9.6% of the team's total reported payroll. The median salary for a player on the Ottawa Senators was $900,000. The average salary was $2,384,920. During the 14 games that he played that season, he scored 0 goals and had 0 assists - a total of 0 points. If we divide his reported salary by the number of games played, we find he earned $342,857.14 per game played. Pascal Leclaire had a plus/minus of 0, 0 PIM (penalties in minutes), 0 PP (power play goals), 0 SH (short-handed goals), 0 GWG (game winning goals), and took 0 shots. He had a shooting percentage in the 2010/2011 season of 0.00%. His goaltending statistics include 763 min, 391 SA (shots against), 036 GA (goals against), 2.83 GAA (goals against average), 90.80% save percent, and a record of 4-7-1, including 0 shutouts. If we want to try to evaluate his performance strictly as a goaltender, we can divide his salary by the number of shots against. His salary per shot against was $12,276.
But then, there are taxes. Each hockey season is played during two calendar years, however, given an annual salary in the U.S. of $4,800,000 we can estimate that he would have to pay $1,655,284 in federal income taxes. That is about the same amount of tax as the tax paid by 203 median high school teachers, 231 median police officers, or 328 median fire fighters. After paying the IRS, he would have $3,144,716 left over. However, he may still have to use some of that money to pay state or city taxes as well.
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