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Pekka Rinne Nashville Predators 2010-2011 NHL statistics
During the 2010/2011 NHL season, Pekka Rinne played goaltender for the Nashville Predators, wearing number 35. He earned a salary, reportedly, of $2,800,000. The total team salary for the Nashville Predators was reportedly $51,387,500, so his salary was about 5.4% of the team's total reported payroll. The median salary for a player on the Nashville Predators was $1,275,000. The average salary was $2,141,145. During the 64 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 $43,750.00 per game played. Pekka Rinne had a plus/minus of 0, 12 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 3789 min, 1905 SA (shots against), 134 GA (goals against), 2.12 GAA (goals against average), 93.00% save percent, and a record of 33-22-9, including 6 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 $1,470.
But then, there are taxes. Each hockey season is played during two calendar years, however, given an annual salary in the U.S. of $2,800,000 we can estimate that he would have to pay $955,284 in federal income taxes. That is about the same amount of tax as the tax paid by 117 median high school teachers, 133 median police officers, or 189 median fire fighters. After paying the IRS, he would have $1,844,716 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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