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My Stanley Cup Runneth Over

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Must get this game.

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Man that sucks for NJ.
They have to give up the draft pick for trying to circumvent the cap with his first deal next year too.
That could be a very high pick.
 
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Twitch Boy said:
This has to be a hoax/hack.

If true, Kovalchuk just knocked Rick DiPietro's initials off the Godawful Contract high score table.
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It's not. He's going home to get paid $15-20 mil/season in mafia rubles. ;)

Loophole Lou just happens to benefit. Typical.
 
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First Time said:
Man that sucks for NJ.
They have to give up the draft pick for trying to circumvent the cap with his first deal next year too.
That could be a very high pick.
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With the financial troubles of NJ the savings of the rest of Kovy's contract will be good for them.
 
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The real dick move is that Kovalchuk waited until a week into free agency to retire. I bet the Devils could have found a use for all of that cash.
 
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I have no sympathy for the Devils. Does it suck? Yes, but Lou gets out of another crappy contract again.
 
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Dear Pavel Datsyuk,

Please don't get any ideas. Kovy is really not a good person to follow a path of.

Thanks,
Red Wings Fans Everywhere.
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
IMO, if he was leaving, he wouldn't have signed the extension and the upcoming season would be his farewell tour.
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I'd like to think you're right, but if it ends up Kovy can command upwards of $15-20 M over there, as I've seen mentioned, one has to think the idea may creep into his head. That said, I don't see Datsyuk as fitting the stereotypical "selfish Russian" like Kovy does.
 
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<i>On Friday, the Bruins signed Petrice Bergeron to an eight-year, $52 million extension. The eight-year term, like the one Tuukka Rask signed on July 10, is the maximum to which a team can re-up its own players.</i>

-Boston Globe
 
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“[Owners] went back to the players and said ‘We’ll stay and we’ll reengage if you agree to the three things that we say are important to us, which is the term of the CBA, term limits on player contracts, which is the hill we will die on, and the compliance issues,” deputy commissioner Bill Daly told reporters in New York City.

Limiting player contract lengths to five years is now “the hill we will die on” for owners.
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How's that working out for you?
 
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That's dumb. If you don't want there to be player contracts longer than five years, just don't offer contracts longer than five years. There is absolutely no reason that needs to be in the CBA.
 
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