NHL Player Salaries are Going Up
NHL 球員薪資正在上升
Introduction
Hockey players are getting more money. Teams are signing new contracts with very high prices.
冰球運動員的收入增加了。球隊簽訂新合約的價格非常高。
Main Body
The league limit for player pay is growing. It will be $104 million in 2026. Now, the best defense players can earn $15 million or $20 million every year.
聯盟的球員薪資上限正在成長，到 2026 年將達到 1.04 億美元。現在，頂尖的後衛每年可以賺得 1,500 萬或 2,000 萬美元。
Leo Carlsson is now the highest-paid player. He earns $18 million a year. This is a lot of money, so his team, the Anaheim Ducks, has less money for other players.
Leo Carlsson 目前是薪資最高的球員，每年賺取 1,800 萬美元。這是一筆巨大的金額，因此他所屬的 Anaheim Ducks 球隊在其他球員身上的預算就減少了。
Other teams are changing their players. The New York Rangers bought new players and sold others. The Detroit Red Wings and Pittsburgh Penguins are also trying to find the best players for their teams.
其他球隊則在進行球員更替。New York Rangers 購買了新球員並出售了部分球員。Detroit Red Wings 和 Pittsburgh Penguins 也在嘗試為球隊尋找最適合的頂尖球員。
Conclusion
Player prices are very high now. The cost for the best players is changing.
球員的身價目前非常高，頂尖球員的成本正在改變。
Vocabulary Learning
💰 Talking about Money
In this text, we see how to describe money and costs. For a beginner, the most important thing is how we link people to amounts.
1. The Action Words (Verbs)
- Earn To get money from working. (Example: Leo earns $18 million).
- Cost The price of something. (Example: The cost is changing).
- Pay The money a boss gives a worker.
2. Comparing Amounts When we talk about money changing, we use these simple directions:
- Going Up / Growing More money
- Less Smaller amount
3. Key Sentence Pattern
To say how much someone makes, use this simple formula:
[Person] + earns + [Amount] + [Time period]
- Leo Carlsson earns \rightarrow$ a year.
Quick Tip: Use "a year" or "every year" to show that the money happens repeatedly, not just one time.